Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[McGrath]

Indeed, I was, thanks for clarifyning.

You will know tomorrow (Thursday) around noon, then will be clear when they will close.

Ok thanks.

[Maxime]

I believe Maxime was referring to GT operating at Oceans in the day time, not at the burnt-down location.

Indeed, I was, thanks for clarifyning.

What does next few days mean? Someday next week?

If Hessen decides to close the clubs they might be open this weekend or it could be decision tomorrow and closed Friday?

I am coming to Darmstadt early evening tomorrow and didn't plan to go until Friday but maybe I need to rethink.

You will know tomorrow (Thursday) around noon, then will be clear when they will close.

[McGrath]

And it is official: https://www.wa.de/nordrhein-westfale...-91149206.html.

And will be formalized the next few days.

What does next few days mean? Someday next week?

If Hessen decides to close the clubs they might be open this weekend or it could be decision tomorrow and closed Friday?

I am coming to Darmstadt early evening tomorrow and didn't plan to go until Friday but maybe I need to rethink.

[Jimmy Boy 99]

Unlikely, it burnt to the ground ten days ago.

I believe Maxime was referring to GT operating at Oceans in the day time, not at the burnt-down location.

[Ararat]

Unlikely, it burnt to the ground ten days ago.

Oh, I hope the insurance money pays for this.

[Britpop]

Probably they will, but only for 1 or 2 days. Sad but true.

Unlikely, it burnt to the ground ten days ago.

[Turgid]

Well uneasy alliances are always formed. Geopolitics 101.

It was essentially a one-front war 1941-1943. British Army was not in any shape to invade continental Europe. And even with concentrated forces, Germany could not match the Royal Navy, so an amphibious invasion of Britain would have been foolish. Summer of 1940 the Luftwaffe did try to bomb Britain in hopes of forcing an armistice, but that failed. Either way, Hitler's major objective, as he articulated decades earlier was to expand eastward and exterminate people he viewed as subhumans (Bolsheviks, Jews). Had he waited another year, the Red Army would have not been caught off-guard. Even with 80 percent of his army on the eastern front, he could not force Russia to surrender.

An armchair expert on Quora:

For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3,000,000 men. Among these were 19 panzer divisions, and in total the 'Barbarossa' force had about 3,000 tanks, 7,000 artillery pieces and 2,500 aircraft. Such a force would have easily taken full control of the entirety of Europe including Britain, plus North Africa. Imagine the mind boggling addition of resources that would have brought to the German war effort against Russia!

Another expert's take on the war on two fronts:

"A two-front war scenario, almost identical to the first World War would eventually aggregate in the European theatre during World War II, when Nazi Germany confronted allied France, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and later the United States in the west and the Soviet Union to the east.

Adolf Hitler initially attempted to avoid a two-front war as he engaged and crushed his opponents successively. In 1940, however, he failed to beat Great Britain in the air battle and in 1941 attacked the Soviet Union. Great Britain in relative safety on its island remained unbeaten and managed to maintain the western front. Hitler also failed to neutralize Great Britain and avoid a two-front war.

Germany, that lacked the resources for a long war, failed to achieve a quick victory in the east and eventually collapsed under the pressure of a war of attrition on two fronts, accelerated by a surge of resistance and partisan groups in virtually all occupied countries. Reduced production output and dwindling replacements of casualties as a consequence of massive material warfare and Allied strategic bombing and shortages in fuel and raw materials increasingly prevented the continuation of German offensive. And Blitzkrieg tactics. In contrast, steadily improving Allied cooperative warfare, based on an exponentially growing war industry brought about the inevitable total military defeat for Germany".

[Maxime]

NRW just had their press conference with (possible) new Corona rules. They will detail it tomorrow and formalize it the day after, but it seems that not only 2 G /2 G+ rules will be expanded, also clubs (and disco's, etc) in NRW are likely to close.

And it is official: https://www.wa.de/nordrhein-westfale...-91149206.html.

And will be formalized the next few days.

[Sirioja]

Saarland seem to close clubs on Thursday. Also risk for NRW soon, when Bavaria and Saxe already closed. For those who still drink on internet everything is fine in Germany, when Omicron didn't spread yet, but when you know a bit about Bundesliga, should be soon with empty stadiums, no yellow wall. All fine.

[Maxime]

What about GT which is supposed to open tomorrow?

Probably they will, but only for 1 or 2 days. Sad but true.

[PaulInZurich]

Only if Germany had caught some ideas from the winter war in Finland. Cause damn how little they knew of winter warfare!

Motti tactics don't work so well in the open steppe.

[PaulInZurich]

When you don't sleep much, you have more time than others, more than 20 hours per day. There are controls on TV or radio when no control on internet. We got a French I think ex baker, telling HIV don't exist..

You still don't understand that the German Federal Office of Statistics is not your French baker.

BTW, there is a link between lack of sleep and Alzheimer's.

https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-demen...-sleep-changes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0109142704.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378676/

[Mursenary]

NRW just had their press conference with (possible) new Corona rules. They will detail it tomorrow and formalize it the day after, but it seems that not only 2 G /2 G+ rules will be expanded, also clubs (and disco's, etc) in NRW are likely to close.

Whack, here's a source:

https://www.wa.de/nordrhein-westfale...-91146294.html

I wonder what Hesse will do.

[Mursenary]

I don't hear Germany is fine about covid like they seem to hear in US when they read from beginning of the year. I wonder why they cancelled big money Munich Christmas market and maybe not so far from Winter lockdown, like 1 year ago, when SA Omicron just arrived, not spreading yet.

Oh, you actually are capable of to parsing details. But apparently only when someone points it out to you, and not when it offends your ego. Ignorance by choice is magnitudes worse than just ignorance.

No one claimed Germany was fine. I said hospitals are not full and hospitalizations and deaths are not going up proportionately to cases. This peak will not be as bad as the last and the next will be even less severe. Hospitals are not full.

Apparently you trust a reporter's editorial more than direct data reported by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. Maybe you think Europa.eu is part of the bullshit internet?

Hospitals are less full today than they were in February when they were 77% full.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/public...pancy-covid-19

When you don't sleep much, you have more time than others, more than 20 hours per day.

Pretty sure 3 hours of sleep per night is not good for the brain. More sleep would probably curb the psychosis, delay the progression of dementia.

[PaulInZurich]

But to the original point of the Lancet being discredited, I will redirect to the difference between their role in publishing research versus publishing editorials and public statements. I think your original statement alluded to the difference between referencing random internet articles versus referencing published peer reviewed sources.

Of course you are right. Research published in Lancet or BMJ or NEJM carry some weight. The hobbit refuses to look at any source that doesn't agree with his twisted mind. Your link was to the German Federal Office of Statistics website, it's not the facebook post of a unemployed dog portrait painter.