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At least you can count Brazil in. Universiade and the world championships are @brunamoura's main focus for next season.

Since all of this is pretty much exactly the feeling people here have about Italy, Greece, Spain and so on, and apparently people in those countries feel the same, it really is about time to split it in two, one would assume. Although the effort that would take could probably be saved for later instead of right now.

Thanks. That thing about testing with only a few symptoms sounds not exactly promising for Brazil, where even with all main symptoms you don't always get tested if you haven't been in a 'risk area' or something (and even if you have been). I fear we're going to see several more 'Lombardias' in the coming weeks, around the world..

I've heard those can be watched online as well? Because in that case I'll refrain from reading the articles for now, but I'll read them later

Just finished watching this, and finally I can ask: why does IFSC not have any graphics other than the time? It'd have been so incredibly easy to follow the competition if they had live graphics, sort of like at the 2018 world championships, but now Ito - the very last athlete - fell a bit earlier than expected and all of a sudden they realized the battle between Krampl and Rakovec had turned around completely. I love IFSC live streaming everything on YouTube so it's easy to watch whenever you want, but their graphics are absolutely horrible (well, non-existing basically)

Yeah I remember the images of that day/night when half of Lombardy seemed to move south suddenly...although I'm surprised the non-Lombardy part of Italy is not a bigger part of the numbers because of this by now. Thanks, hopefully these numbers keep going down and go down quickly... Apart from patients themselves, healthcare workers really could use some air by now..

On a more important and less political note: is there any theory on how it can still be spreading this much in Italy? I mean, there's been restrictions in various strictness for quite a while now, one would assume people haven't been going about their regular life for a good while and yet there's still thousands and thousands of new cases every single day..

The question is: is that something that will be received as a "fuck you!" or as a "finally"? And before that gets taken the wrong way: I am personally not against helping weaker nations, at all. As long as the reserves that have been built aren't depleted before we need it ourselves, which in this situation is just a matter of time.

Yeah, also countries who did manage to build up more significant financial reserves than those who are all the time having financial troubles are having their own big virus troubles by now, so it's not a simple matter of just shoving stuff around, even though people like to think it is. But yeah, it's a rather hard issue as to how to deal with this. Populist politicians going around and saying "this and that country are out to destroy us!" are a nasty bunch, using this for their own political gain once this thing has settled down.

Wait for the dates, which are expected within a few weeks?

Finally, pharmaceutical giant Roche has decided to share their recipe for a crucial fluid needed for testing, meaning the number of tests can finally be increased relatively soon... Meanwhile the prime minister kept going with the pretty unprecedented advices for people's daily life. This time specifically he stressed how important it is - now more than ever - to stay healthy and fit, so he urged everyone to, quote, "Get at least 7.5-8 hours of sleep, eat healthy, make sure you go and get fresh air and excersise if you are able to do so". Heeded his words and went for a one hour run: fresh air (apart from the fields where farmers have just spread cow shit around to make things grow better) and excersise

I'm sure @Gianlu33 or @phelps can confirm it, but I'm reading 969 (!) new deaths in Italy in the past 24 hours..?

President Dipstick accidentally hit Caps Lock again He really should use more caps and more exclamation marks if he wants people to listen.

Meanwhile Boris Johnson is next to test positive.

Absolutely. I mean the even more extreme or 'insane' things* like "North Korea had someone who tested positive, so they executed him". *with which I'm not trying to say freaking concentration camps are not extreme or insane

Yeah, North Korea might have three cases at 10:00 and zero cases at 10:15

What's that 'Dutch' doing there in the name of a Belgian rowing club?

And to not be in most of those 'not affected' countries...South Sudan, North Korea, Yemen, all free of this? Sure.

And now Güler is negative http://www.turkboks.gov.tr/serhat-guler-taburcu-oldu.aspx

I have not seen a single thing yet Only one short 'ad' on TV once, but that's about it.

I'm not defending any status quo, I'm just saying things are a little more nuanced than just going "who cares about the economy in these times??". As if you don't care about people's lifes when you say we should take care not to bring down an entire economy with precautions and such. And just for the record: Yes, I do think there should be precautions. A status quo would suggest nothing should be done.

It's curious how also experts are so different in terms of their opinions. For example John Ioannidis is extremely well-respected in the field of epidemiology and has said we have to differentiate between the actual epidemic and 'an epidemic of way too strong reactions by governments'. According to him, all the current precautions might save lifes, but mostly lifes of people who otherwise might have died of influenza instead of this coronavirus. "Only this year every case and every death is cause for alarm in the media." There's plenty of others, like Thomas Friedman or Nobel Price winner Michael Levitt, who are warning that the current precautions might cause significantly more damage than the actual virus. Economies are slowly being brought to their knees, which results in more deaths due to people losing their jobs by the thousands or even millions. The difference is those deaths are less visible and are spread over a longer time period and so won't be noticed as much. It's extremely difficult to know exactly what the right thing is and where to find a much-needed balance, but both letting the virus roam free and shutting down everything don't seem like very wise options..

It really, very much should not be. If you make the economy our last priority right now, countless more people are going to die and at the very least have their lives go to shit because of it.

Yes, I'd want that too. So far I've only heard people say "he says he is going to open everything next week", stuff he hasn't actually said. Every time I listen to what he actually says, he basically says he hopes this and that can open quickly. I hope the same, obviously.

Yes, I want all stores, factories and schools etc open too. I think we all do.