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Then I can happily tell you that we're up by 3-1

Thee 1986 FIFA World Cup. -

trailing you with a few there (87-88kg right now)

Some of the support for companies can also be used by sports teams. I think about 2/3 of the top-tier football teams are getting support to pay the salaries of players (up to 26.000 dkr) who has been sent on leave. The rest are still paying full salary. Superliga-teams have been given permission to do some training in groups up to 8 (including coaches and other staff). This is of course with very strict rules. But this is only for the teams who haven't sent players on leave. For smaller sports organizations a pot of 50 million dkr is available (though shared with the scout movements). I believe that's it at the moment.

It's not like @Olympian1010 voting green would mean much. No chance that the dems lose California.

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The obvious pick would be Harris who is also the one most pundits seem to mention as the top candidate. She creates some balance on both demography, ideology (she's no Warren or Sanders, but some more left-leaning than Biden) and she wouldn't cost anything in the race for a senate majority (like Warren (temporarily) or Baldwin could). Warren could help a little in balancing internally, but I doubt she would win a lot of votes for the ticket that aren't winnable otherwise. Abrams could also be interesting. Left-leaning, coloured and a notable voice. He could also go latino with Cortez Masto or maybe go all-in on a close states with Gretchen Whitmer or Tammy Baldwin though they are white and especially Baldwin could cost a senate seat. And that's without mentioning Klobuchar, Duckworth or Grisham who I wouldn't count out of the game.

Hard to say 7 months before the elections. Biden is winning in the polls, both nationally and in the main battleground states, but this far from an election, those really don't mean that much. The corona situation could end up meaning a lot, but it's unsure. Meanwhile Biden will surely think about what he can give the Sanders (and to some extent Warren) supporters to get their votes as well as who he'll go for as VP.

here we go again ...

And the Faroe Islands quickly going the right way as well, though with a sing critical case.

It seems like we now more or less officially have our presidential candidates (well, for the main parties) as Sanders drops out according to CNN.

Looking at the index used for it, it has 34 different indicators. USA is first in 18 of these and top 10 in another 8 (they are by the way ranked 175 in healthcare acces). That's also on prevention, detection, response, norms and risk. I'm not the right one to consider whether the indicators are good or bad or if the US was in fact the potentially best prepared or these, but I can see that some of the strengths are thrown away by Trump and Kushner (or was based on facts that didn't really stand the test). I'm very well aware of the major lacks in the US health care and have seen the numbers of beds and ICU beds plenty of times (one of the few things things I could easily be sceptical about is that it doesn't seem like ICU beds are taken into account (only beds in general are)) Personally I would be careful about making any conclusions about whether it's a good ranking or anything. It is pretty thorough afterall, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they haven't focused on some of the wrong things.

Except for the worst cases it's really way too early to make any conclusions about who is doing well or bad until we've been through the full pandemic. The Swedish way could end up seeming like the right way when other countries are hit by a second wave. Even Italy, Spain and New York could end up looking better in the statistics in a year (though I doubt the times they're going through will be forgotten). Don't get me wrong. I've also been in favour of more isolation, but simulations show that it's at least as much a question of the behaviour of the people (at least if you're not going to the extremes with curfews). As long as the Swedish health system isn't overloaded, it could be the right decision in the long run.

I'm sure that it may be right when it comes to the health care systems. But it's not really stronger than the ones taking the decisions.

I'm in no way saying that it started with Trump, former primaries show that very well, though they've also been tough on several democratic candidates, but he has certainly made things worse. The editorial work is clearly biased (but again, there's less of that than in FOX), but the actual news reporting is much more factual and much better on sources than FOX. There is some bias by omission, but it still has much more neutral work than FOX. Meanwhile it's not really that tough to find less biased media- Sure it's a jungle of more or less biased media but it's utter rubbish that everyone takes a side and sticks to it. There are plenty of journalists who sticks to proper journalism even though they may personally have sided with one or another.

CNN does indeed have some bias, but it's way more neutral (and much less editorial) than FOX. It's not really the media's job to focus on positive/negative stories. It's their job to report the facts and stay critical. Sure there'll be a lean (pretty much all news outlets have some kind of bias), also in countries with better news outlets than the US, but it's not all. Meanwhile it's also pretty tough to stay positive when Trump goes on a rant pretty much every single time there's a slightly critical question (you know, the kind that journalists are supposed to come up with) while OAN (FOX on crazy drugs) gets praise for bootlicking.

A new date has already been found for the local half marathon. It'll be october 11th. I'll give it a bit of time to find out whether I'll go for that one or Copenhagen about a month earlier. There will be some kind of "virtual half marathon" on the actual day which I guess I'll go for.

Well. The former TISC-song "Sæsonen er slut" seems to be a good theme song for this summer (at least in Denmark)

Meanwhile Finland is creating miracles

If things stay well the next week, Kindergartens and the younger classes will start opening starting next wednesday. This should make things easier for people working from home who has small children. All other restrictions stay intact until may 10th. There will be no major events until the autumn and the exams from public schools are cancelled.

But does the distance really matter that much if the idea wih compulsory face masks help? (it's questionable how much homemade masks stop, though, if I'm not mistaken). The distance is afterall mainly a matter of fluids moving through the air from mouth and nose.

My fear (and I see that some experts are slightly worried about the same) is whether we've managed to contain it a bit too well, meaning that the risk of a major spread when we start opening up again could end up making more damage.

There is no way to take politicians out of the equation. But it's really a matter of how much you listen to them. But even so, it's pretty clear that there are major differences between doctors. It's not like it's the politicians making the calls on keeping the society pretty open in Sweden. They're following the ideas of a doctor. Meanwhile it's also necessary with the politicians to consider how the country is to keep moving on (both during a lockdown and when slowly opening up). Meanwhile I must admit that I'm starting to fear if Denmark may be getting through this too easily. Things are working very well and the numbers of people hospitalized has been going down for a few days now while the numbers in ICU has been pretty steady. What I could fear is if too few has had the corona a potential second wave may need the same kinds of policies. Not expecting some kind of herd immunity, but one case more now may be one case less next time and former pandemics has shown that the second wave may very well be worse than the first. But it should be made clear that my knowledge on the subject is pretty limited.

Yes, it's a political battle, which it should absolutely never be! When some states get whatever they ask for (and even more) for being friends with the president or a battleground state, while states with governors that won't come begging on their bleeding knees for mercy from the almighty president gets questioned whether they need what they're asking for. It becomes a bidding war between states with the federal government as an actor pushing up the prices. Meanwhile the EU is using RescEU to do the shopping for EU countries making it more affordable.

Yup. Looking at pace tables, I should be in shape for more or less a 1:50 half marathon But the 2 hour mark is still the target. I've started considering Copenhagen half as my backup race if my planned half is cancelled or postponed to a bad day (I doubt it will happen on the original day). Could be useful to go with the world's fastest half marathon.