Vic Liu

Chinese badminton NT still stay in England after All England Open. Media says they have to stay there until the end of March because they aren't able to buy air tickets back to China. All direct flight tickets sold out until April.

Because it's not good for the minors. Government think they should be protected. But life will find the way.

well it is supposed to be blocked. But porn website and forum is among the easiest websites to be unblocked and least censored relatively. Even rumor has it, at the early phase of the nation wide quarantine, the download speed for porn has been significantly upgraded as a reward for staying at home.

well it is supposed to be blocked. But porn website and forum is among the easiest websites to be unblocked and least censored relatively. Even rumor has it, at the early phase of the nation wide quarantine, the download speed for porn has been significantly upgraded as a reward for staying at home.

The health and safety of athletes should always be given top priority. As long as there are areas where the epidemic has not been resolved, it is not suitable for hosting the Olympic Games. Once infected, it may ruin the entire career.

Sure. But everything is in Chinese. Especially the playlist and subtitle. Hard to choose which game to watch and recognize the athlete because they almost wear same NT clothes except Viktor An wearing all black. He only participated 1000m and 5000m relay. The schedule should be similar to WCH.
 
First day 03/13: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc002006giozr5.html
Second day 03/14: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc00200sgsshnh.html
Third day 03/15: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc00200k7qthmk.html
 

Sure. But everything is in Chinese. Especially the playlist and subtitle. Hard to choose which game to watch and recognize the athlete because they almost wear same NT clothes except Viktor An wearing all black. He only participated 1000m and 5000m relay. The schedule should be similar to WCH.
 
First day 03/13: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc002006giozr5.html
Second day 03/14: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc00200sgsshnh.html
Third day 03/15: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc00200k7qthmk.html
 

It will not happen. Still all kinds of sport events are not allowed to hold publicly, only a few training events could be held in the national team training center without audience. Last weekend, We just held short track speed skating mock WCH with NT members and Victor An. There is no audience but live stream was available. Also some diving, shooting and athletics events held in the same way.

Sure. But everything is in Chinese. Especially the playlist and subtitle. Hard to choose which game to watch and recognize the athlete because they almost wear same NT clothes except Viktor An wearing all black. He only participated 1000m and 5000m relay. The schedule should be similar to WCH.
 
First day 03/13: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc002006giozr5.html
Second day 03/14: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc00200sgsshnh.html
Third day 03/15: https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc00200k7qthmk.html
 

It will not happen. Still all kinds of sport events are not allowed to hold publicly, only a few training events could be held in the national team training center without audience. Last weekend, We just held short track speed skating mock WCH with NT members and Victor An. There is no audience but live stream was available. Also some diving, shooting and athletics events held in the same way.

This stage is a national cup only for Chinese athletes. And China skating association announced that all kinds of national speed skating and short track speed skating events would be postponed indefinitely on 2nd Feb. The announcement is in Chinese from China skating association official website.
 
http://www.chinacsa.net.cn/c/2020-02-02/488847.shtml

Slovakia is finally 1st in the world in something
 
The most peoples clicking and searching for "corona" and "covid" tags on Pornhub
 


 
 
 
yeah, strange, weird, particular...I know slovaks are special
 
 

Hahaha He said the exact same thing as what the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said to scold US government. He is truly an socialist and special politician. To be honest, I don’t see any chance Sleep Joe could defeat Trump. Why not democrats at least give him a chance.

The most terrible shortage should be medical resource. Once the severe patients over the medical capacity, the health system may collapse. It's always the most terrible image on my mind, hope it would not happened to any country. Take care of yourself and your family and happy new year.

that's true but that's for the hospitals. I meant about things people buy in their daily lives .
we heard a lot about these kind of problems before and some cities being over their medical capacities but not really in past few days, I wonder if it's a good sign or they just getting used to the situation and prefer to not complain. 

No matter what happens, if Covid-19 really starts to spread, we’re fucked. The government refuses to buy/build more of the needed medical equipment. They refuse to take action nationally. They won’t pass the relief bills in Congress because the GOP keeps trying to sneak in things like massive tax cuts for the wealthy. We still have a sizable amount of the population who doesn’t even believe the virus is real. It’s bad. 
 
However, things here in California aren’t terrible at the moment. I think it will get bad, but we’re managing without too much government support right now. I think the state has done a very good job of responding to this crisis, and I’m glad to live here. 
 
I think you overestimate our government a little bit, but maybe I’ll take some of your optimism because I could use it right now.

A good news hopefully comfort the anxiety.
 
The joint vaccine development of a Chinese biotech company and the army made a breakthrough today. They received the permit to conduct clinical trials and begin to publicly recruit volunteers. Also they claimed ready for mass production.
 
The company is CanSino Biologists which is a Hong Kong listed company. It’s supposed to publish any breakthrough made to the public.

Only some personal thought by a few Japanese officials, but the effect 10000 times magnified by social platforms and media.

Hangzhou already object and protest the postponement of the Olympics to 2022. It will cause a series of chaos.

A good news hopefully comfort the anxiety.
 
The joint vaccine development of a Chinese biotech company and the army made a breakthrough today. They received the permit to conduct clinical trials and begin to publicly recruit volunteers. Also they claimed ready for mass production.
 
The company is CanSino Biologists which is a Hong Kong listed company. It’s supposed to publish any breakthrough made to the public.

I hope IOC decide it later in May. If decision made by current situation, it must be postponed. But what if it’s contained in May, it’s still possible. 

Haha, for both sides of these kind of news, no one actually take it seriously. I just rolled my eyes and move on. Apparently enough that Chinese official just want to satirize the American politician as the humorous same way.

Here's the new version of the qualification table, in case 2019 World Championship results are used by World Rowing
 
EVENT "AMERICAS REGATTA" "ASIA & OCEANIA REGATTA" "EUROPE REGATTA" "FINAL REGATTA" M 1x MEX CUB PUR PAR BER * KAZ UZB KOR THA IND VAN UAE * * GRE AZE BUL     POL GBR ISR SRB FRA SUI TUR USA   M 2x                                         AUS ARG CAN BLR           M 4x                                         NZL UKR RUS EST           M 2-                                         GBR USA POL DEN           M 4-                                         FRA GER SRB RSA           M 8+                                         NZL ROU CAN ITA           M LW 2x * * *       JPN HKG IND             AUT POR UKR TUR   AUS CAN CZE NZL CHN USA FRA     W 1x TTO PUR MEX PAR * * TPE KAZ VIE QAT KOR THA SGP * * UKR SWE GRE BUL FIN DEN CZE GER FRA GRE BUL KAZ NOR  MEX W 2x                                         BLR POL GBR GER           W 4x                                         RUS AUS ROU FRA           W 2-                                         CHI UKR POL GER           W 4-                                         CHN IRL NZL ITA           W 8+                                         ROU CHN RUS NED           W LW 2x GUA * *       JPN KOR THA             AUT LAT *     CAN AUS USA SUI RSA CHN POL      

As you can see, for continental  regattas I only considered those NOCs that have either one or zero crews qualified from the Worlds. 
 
In this scenario,  would qualify both lightweight boats, thus a quota in both single sculls events was added to Asia & Oceania Quota, which means  would earn a quota in men's 1x.
 
All other blue cells with an asterisk are places that can't be filled by boats from that continent, so they're reallocated to the next best crews from the Worlds, also colored in blue.
 
Finally, both  &  would have to choose between their crews, as they finished in the exactly same; sadly for Austria, they were already qualified in women's single sculls, so they can only pick one boat from the continental quota.  In both cases, the NOC's benefiting from the exclusion of either boat are marked in lime and italics in their respective events.
 

group immunity is based on the principle of putting the longer distance / reducing the chance to the minimum that sick people meet someone who's not already immune and therefore gets infected...
 
for it to be effective, you normally need to have at least 90% to 95% of people already immune to the sickness you want to keep under control...
 
basically, it's what you do with disease like measles and chicken pox, which most people are already vaccinated against...as long those people can't get it, you only need to protect a low number of weak people from the virus and avoid it to infect them...
 
but obviously it can't be done with a virus that doesn't have not only a true vaccine, but even a sure safe effective medicine to treat the worst cases...
 
those who are proposing such kind of measure are absolutely crazy and should go back to school and study what group immunity truly is about and how it really works...
 
letting such kind of virus spread would mean an unacceptable enormous amount of people dying, even among youngsters and among those who are supposed to be able to survive the infection...

Of course this is combined with protecting the vulnerable people (meaning, they should definitely stay at home, and the less vulnerable should step up their game to try and help them out). 
 
Like I said, every way to try and fight it has its pros and cons. A super strict lockdown for everyone has the extra risk of the virus basically lingering somewhere quietly and hitting back stronger once the lockdowns are lifted.