Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Sirioja]

Go to Moscow, it is only like 4 hours form Paris right?

I like Moscow, but I recommend more st petersberg.

But Moscow changed, I went there first in year 2000 and back then it was still different to Europe, but now it still is different, but it has more European side to it. Same with Almaty, I went in 1999 first time, I went back in 2017, it developed too much now to my taste, I liked it when I smelt bit of USSR feeling.

I love to go back to Romania, I have not been since 2001, it must have changed a lot, but at least I fuck their women a lot of them in Germany and zurich LOL!

Peter is for me the most beautiful town, real museum town for architecture, even more beautiful than Paris. Moscow can't compete, even very beautiful underground metro stations.

[Sirioja]

Corona was found in river in Paris, this is scary, apparently it is from toilet. I mean they should stop dumping toilet water into river, Paris is capital of France, which is g7 nation. Infrastructure has to be revised and be more hygiene. This river thing is scary, but it is good they spotted it.

No corona problem for water in Paris and in France at the moment. I drink more Paris water than famous French wines or champagne.

[Pessimist]

Just read in several news sources that Oktoberfest 2020 is the latest victim of COVID-19. If people think that Sauna Clubs will reopen this summer it may be time to re-evaluate that position.

I have already gone on record here that in my view, chance of a large FKK like Sharks opening for normal business before the fall is 5% and before the year end is 25%. Those are the odds I give. Others may differ.

[Mursenary]

It has more to do with age. Europe has an older population than the US: https://www.prb.org/countries-with-t...t-populations/.

Definitely a factor. More? I disagree, but a factor yes. Worth noting that Germany and Italy have the same average age but complete opposite results though. So again, it's a factor but more? Doesn't seem so.

[Mursenary]

Then it should be terrible in some poor parts of the world right now, because Bergamo in Italy which was fairly badly hit, is one of the wealthiest parts of Europe. Definitely one of the wealthiest in Italy for sure!

Average age is part of socio-economic metrics. Prevalence of 80 year olds is as much a risk factor as prevalence of poor, sick, and younger.

[Mursenary]

You are talking about the confirmed number of infected, not the actual number that's been infected. 0.56% is the death rate of those infected on Iceland. The medical response must have been amazing! Or it might have something to do with the number of tests being done. Iceland have tested over 12.5% of their population, only the Faeroe Islands comes close to that number.

Oh, you might want to know the death rate on the Faroe Islands: 0.00 %.

In developed nations, the trend is that the more you test, the lower the death rate so I guess you're saying that America's true death rate is even lower. Most people who die, die in healthcare facilities. They're being tested there. The cases that go unreported are the asymptomatically affected or the mildly affected. If numbers are skewed in a particular direction, they are actually overestimating death rates.

Sweden's initial "let them reach herd immunity" stance has been well documented.

[Mursenary]

No one's actually closing the cases. It requires 2 confirmed negative tests in most cases and unless you're admitted into a hospital, no one's getting test once they're better.

I'the say the healthcare system's ability to not get over run is definitely a benchmark of it's quality. Do you see the irony of all the criticism of America's poor healthcare system and fat people with comorbidities yet death rates, even in densely populated New York is much lower?

Good point. This could "almost" isolate out all other factors, and make medical response the sole basis of comparison. But I would argue that that you must then look at the closed cases. USA has 113 K closed cases, 41 K deaths, which comes out to 37% death rate. France is 35%, Italy is 33%, Spain 21%, and Germany 5%.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us

But I still don't think these numbers prove that health system in one country is any better than the other. Deaths seem to pile up when hospitals get overloaded and when the population has high comorbidities. At least the first factor is dictated more by policy makers. Procuring test kits, ventilators, and masks and deciding how early and how long to implement social distancing are outside of the healthcare system's control. USA still has 650 K open cases. If the decision to reopen is not the correct one or the reopening is not properly planned, managed, and executed, American hospitals will never get a chance to "catch up" and improve on their death rate.

[Kuni042]

Oktoberfest and FKK / saunaclubs are totally different.

The one is a MASS feast with about 100,000 folks at any point in time.

The others can be much more disciplined. Especially if you lay out the rules.

I am not giving up. Hope is the thing that dies last. Right?

Just read in several news sources that Oktoberfest 2020 is the latest victim of COVID-19. If people think that Sauna Clubs will reopen this summer it may be time to re-evaluate that position.

[Polyamorist]

You almost make it sound like the virus has a mind of its own now, haha.

Mutations are nothing to freak out about. The flu does it all the time. It makes sense for a virus to mutate to become a nicer bedfellow because if it kills the host it kills itself.

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. -- Krishnamurti.

Sometimes I think we must put aside partisanship and listen to the other side no matter how much we detest them. What I am hearing from our little friends is a cry for help.

Coronavirus: "Please accept our apologies if you die. When these unfortunate side-effects occur, no-one is worse impacted than we ourselves. ".

Rather than being scared of mutations, we should be accelerating them, so that the enlightened tribes of Covid-20 and Covid-21 may overcome their savage forebear.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. -- Krishnamurti.

[Chongmal]

Just read in several news sources that Oktoberfest 2020 is the latest victim of COVID-19. If people think that Sauna Clubs will reopen this summer it may be time to re-evaluate that position.

[Mr Ho]

Top 10 health care nations and their death rate relate:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2020...thcare-systems

[SobeLizard]

Prosecutors say 43-year-old Baruch Feldheim hoarded the supplies in order to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis and was selling them to doctors and nurses at prices as much as 700% above market value.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/medi...ry?id=69938363

https://youtu.be/DlaWuGj2Grw

Nearly a million medical-grade masks and gloves that were seized this week from a Brooklyn man who was charged with lying to federal agents about price-gouging will go to medical workers in New York and New Jersey, the authorities said Thursday.

The need for masks and personal protective equipment, known as PPE, is acute in the New York metropolitan region, an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

The stockpile of supplies that were seized included 192,000 N95 respirators, 130,000 surgical masks and nearly 600,000 medical grade gloves, the authorities said. They said they also had recovered surgical gowns, disinfectant towels, particulate filters, hand sanitizer and spray disinfectant.

The man who was charged with lying to federal agents, Baruch Feldheim, 43, charged a doctor $12,000 last month for a large order of masks, gowns and hazmat gear at a 700 percent markup, according to the F. Be. I. The agency called it a glaring example of hoarding of medical supplies that are designated as essential under a presidential executive order.

When the doctor went to pick up his order at an auto repair shop in Irvington, and. J. , which was being used as a warehouse, he saw so many pallets of medical gear, Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer that it would have been enough to supply an entire hospital, a criminal complaint said.

"Cracking down on the hoarding of vital supplies allows us to distribute this material to the heroic health care workers on the front lines who are most in need," Alex M. Azar II, the USA Health and Human Services secretary, said in a statement on Thursday.

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When federal agents first confronted Mr. Feldheim on Sunday, he coughed in their direction and told them that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, the authorities said. He was arrested on Monday and also charged with one count of assault on a federal officer, the criminal complaint said.

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Mr. Feldheim's defense lawyer, James Moriarty, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday night, but Reuters reported that Mr. Moriarty had denied the charges.

In a message on Thursday to his F. B. I. Colleagues, Gregory W. Ehrie, the special agent in charge of the F. Be. I. 's Newark office, wrote that the efforts of law enforcement officers were making a difference during the health care crisis.

"It is gratifying when the challenging and risky work of our agents has such positive and tangible results," Mr. Ehrie wrote. "Profiteers need to be aware that we are looking for them and will do whatever necessary to help stem the tide of this crisis. The public needs to know that they are a force multiplier in our efforts and should bring us any information that could curtail criminal activity."

The USA Department of Health and Human Services said it would pay "fair market value" to the owner of the hoarded equipment.

The materials were inspected and redistributed to the health departments of New York State, New Jersey and New York City, the authorities said.

William K. Rashbaum and Adam Goldman contributed reporting.

[Pessimist]

Universal healthcare is a non starter in US. As for social inequality, they can debate it forever but there will never be such a thing. Not in the US, not anywhere else. May be there will be degrees of inequality, but never any true equality.

[Mr Ho]

What you mean? France is responsible of organization and safety in China? But I'm happy France get ordered for building in China, and do CIA have real proof which can be controlled by everybody, when one of the less reliable organization, can compete with China for truth.

Also Kim Jong un has been operated by french doctors in north Korea, but the guy is in critical condition now, thanks to French doctors for doing good job to eliminating one of the most vicious dictator, lack of skill sometime is good thing for the world LOL!

[Mr Ho]

Like in brothels, only facts are real for me, figures for virus, today more than 40 000 deaths in US with mostly poor Afro Americans, not far from 30 millions more unemployed and more than 10 millions illegals, for country number 1 . We are not better in France with now more than 20000 deaths when I see how work in exceptional way our medical staff, and I m sure US medical staff also do great job, but too many without insurance who can't afford to pay for healthcare. But when I see old and fat in US asking to finish confined, as they ask for free weapons for mad to kill in schools, universities, churches, I don't worry anymore for them, when Trump is playing a politic game, I will worry much more for poor Africa, and this is much more important for me than brothels land and prostitutes looking for fast money, when so many Africans may die because of poverty. Maybe my communist part, even very individualist, maybe why I m so interested by Russian culture and history, except by Putin.

Go to Moscow, it is only like 4 hours form Paris right?

I like Moscow, but I recommend more st petersberg.

But Moscow changed, I went there first in year 2000 and back then it was still different to Europe, but now it still is different, but it has more European side to it. Same with Almaty, I went in 1999 first time, I went back in 2017, it developed too much now to my taste, I liked it when I smelt bit of USSR feeling.

I love to go back to Romania, I have not been since 2001, it must have changed a lot, but at least I fuck their women a lot of them in Germany and zurich LOL!