Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Treble Machine]

Japan has more Michelin stars than France rated by French agency Michelin for past 11 years straight.

Tokyo alone has 4 times the number of restaurants in Paris.

[Treble Machine]

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.

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[Chongmal]

Japan has more Michelin stars than France rated by French agency Michelin for past 11 years straight. But France and Italy and also Spain has great food culture in Europe, hat off to them.

Mr Ho, don't you know that when an outsider beats you at your game, using your own measuring stick, you have the option to declare that measuring stick invalid and ignoring the results. What I enjoy about Japanese Mechelin Star chefs is that they often perfect foods from around the world, not only seeing Japanese cuisine as the only option. Amazingly, if you look around the Sauna Club scene, you may see a Star chef who enjoys dining at the why.

[Mr Ho]

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

Well be careful as corona was found in water source in pars as toilet water is dumped into river due to Paris water management system:

https://www.connexionfrance.com/Fren...e-water-source

[Mr Ho]

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.

Paris is image thing, it has some nice architecture, but if you actually go there, it is just partly beautiful, in most part it stinks, not clean and full of tourists, not safe. And french people are not so kind hearted especially in Paris.

Metro in Moscow is nice too by the way, but it is communist thing. To monger I like it better in Moscow, but it is pricey even you have wealthy friend.

[Mr Ho]

Japan need to make image, when many of our best cookers stop with Michelin, they don't need because they are famous all over the world. For me no comparison between Italy and Japan, you fall in love when you are in Italy.

I love south Italy more than north, especially calabria where tourist is still limited in some part.

In Japan too, some chef refuse Michelin as they lose their original regular clients, it is not image thing by the way, I know some normal working class french people are known to be too proud of their own nation not knowing much about foreign nations, but it is just the fact Japan has more Michelin stars than France rated by French gourmets, but it is each their own.

[Borrop74]

Top 10 health care nations and their death rate relate:

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

Well Mr Ho, it depends from the list you take.

If you look at the one by the World Health Organization (and not by an unknown British think tank) such list is quite different and has France and Italy at the top.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...-in-the-world/

My points are that such lists are rather arbitrary and even the best Healthcare System is not planned to sustain extreme situations.

[Sirioja]

Japan has more Michelin stars than France rated by French agency Michelin for past 11 years straight. But France and Italy and also Spain has great food culture in Europe, hat off to them.

But man, way of life? Medically it is messed up there and Germany is better for that, but as for Dolce vita, Italy is more relaxed and amazing nation and also France, they are socialist close to communist, so it is good, you are protected by government and when things don't go your way, french take it to street with demonstration which in most other nation may call it more like riot LOL! With fire, destroying stores etc LOL.

France and Italy are both in g7, but lower ranked.

Japan need to make image, when many of our best cookers stop with Michelin, they don't need because they are famous all over the world. For me no comparison between Italy and Japan, you fall in love when you are in Italy.

[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.