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Plus no way American broadcasters will accept that.

I really hope, of all things, it won't be postponed to October or something. Just give it up for this year and go for next year.

There's zero problem in enjoying yourself, just don't go and do it in groups and keep some distance I'm going for a run tomorrow, but here it's not very difficult to move a meter or so out of the way when passing someone.

That guy is so freaking stoned out of his mind.

But we sort of did, a little. Indonesian/Malay (apparently it's sort of listed together?) is apparently on the 7th place of languages we 'loaned' words from I see some examples like ketjap, klamboe, loempia, kroepoek and some more https://historiek.net/top-50-nederlandse-woorden-maleis-indonesisch/66844/

That is surprisingly similar indeed

I very much don't @Griff88 is our Indonesian user

But not everyone is. Plenty of business that can go on reasonably well without physically being present, while others simply have to shut down.

Of course the organization of those smaller events care about it, maybe some local people who are somehow involved as well. But on the general stage, probably not even 0,1% of the people who are interested in the Olympics even know of the existence of obscure things like Lusophone of Francophone Games.

Can we just sit back and think how freaking bizarre this all is by the way? Apart from some tiny local stuff, mostly in Africa and such, the entire world of sports has come to a crashing halt. God knows how many shops are being closed everywhere and so thousands and thousands of people are suddenly losing their jobs and their livelihoods. Huge amounts of people are suddenly discovering that working at home is actually quite possible, but also sometimes challenging. Dozens of countries (and more every day) - and yes, that includes some of the generally most 'free' countries there are - have placed bans of various strictness, sometimes even fines or worse, on non-family groups of more than two or three people walking together on the street! Absolutely packed highways are now largely empty, the biggest touristic hotspots are mostly deserted. Going to the supermarket is a thing to plan carefully, not to save yourself the effort of having to go too often, but to avoid getting among people too often, and when doing so, everyone is walking around each other as if it's some sort of worldwide game of 'don't touch me'. All of this in a non-war period. It's just bizarre.

Paper on the doors of a GP's 'office'.

This already looks as awful as it can be in a non-virus world

I guess British people using their weird systems for everything from weight to distance means they can't understand what they mean when saying people have to stay 1,5 meters away from each other?

Especially the U15 World School Games will be hit hard by this.

Now let's hope the much feared second wave stays away..

Yep, but somehow today he looks different. Even more incoherent as usual or something. It's like normally he knows he's talking nonsense, but now he barely even knows which sentences he is droning on.

In case anyone is interested, Trump's briefing has started and so far - again - all he does is senseless rambling on about how it's almost over. Again he is not even able to formulate normal sentences. If your grandpa was talking this way, you'd be very worried.

"This was heywoodu. The Netherlands. Totallympics."

For example in the Netherlands, the official numbers can be found on this website and the daily news update includes this paragraph at the end:

Yet, until this is far behind us and they can say how much damage the incredibly tight precautions and restrictions have caused. Those restrictions are much less tight here and still there's already a boatload of people losing their jobs and stuff like that.

Oh and American news channels having almost literally non-stop BREAKING NEWS I know Americans fap their brains out on 'BREAKING NEWS' and all-caps headlines and stuff, but it's just not 'breaking' if it goes on forever

What kind of measures did Slovakia not take yet?

I'm also getting tired of people saying "he has Corona" and stuff like that. SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus, Corona is a beer, COVID-19 is a disease. It's like people confusing HIV and AIDS. Media made a big mistake early on And the thread title should either be something like "Coronavirus pandemic" or "COVID-19 pandemic", but not "COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic"

Once this is over, I hope we'll never ever hear 'social distancing' again. I am getting so freaking tired of those two words

Yeah, we'll have the closing ceremony....and then only a few months to wait for new Olympics