Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[QUOTE=PaulInZurich;2556149]So if Thomas is close to 73 kg, you must be faster than him too, right? After all there is a guy on the internet who says that weight is all that matters in cycling. I mean at your weight of 48 kgs surely you climb faster than a Tour de France winner.[/QUOTE]New alternate reality.

Years of training 30+ h / week are useless, all you need is 1000 km a year during 4 months and some kind of crappy Taiwanese made mountain bike mounted with slick tires to compete with champions.

[QUOTE=Turgid;2556252]Sounds like conspiracy theory to me.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/oktoberfest-2021-in-muenchen-absage-immer-wahrscheinlicher[/URL], SVlhH91.

This is how 'effective' all those "vaccines" are! / sarc.

Think about this guys: when they are seriously contemplating to cancel an event where people meet for a beer, do you really think that in September they will allow hundreds of horny men to walk around inside a steamy, smokey, poorly ventilated FKK club and so that they can have close physical contact with women?

Many people here are thinking with the wrong 'head. ' LOL!

[QUOTE]Zuvor hatte die Bild-Zeitung OB Reiter mit den Worten zitiert: "Die Hoffnung wird von Woche zu Woche schwächer." Bereits vor wenigen Wochen hatte sich Reiter zurückhaltend zu den Chancen einer Wiesn in diesem Jahr geäußert. Bayerns Ministerpräsident Markus Söder (CSU) hatte sich ebenfalls skeptisch gezeigt.[/QUOTE]My amateur translation: 'The Bild newspaper quotes OB Reiter with the words: "hope is getting weaker from week to week. " Already a few weeks ago, Reiter has expressed reluctance regarding the chances of a "Wiesn" in this year. Bavaria's minister president, Markus Soeder (CSU), has also shown scepticism.'

For all the "lockdowns-work" fanatics here: have a look at this graph: [URL]https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_deaths_per_million&Metric=Confirmed[/URL]+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=DEU SWE CHE.

Here is North Dakota versus South Dakota: [URL]https://www.postbulletin.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6824462-North-Dakota-got-a-mask-mandate-South-Dakota-didnt.-COVID-19-cases-have-plummeted-in-both[/URL].

[QUOTE]With COVID-19 cases running out of control in North Dakota in mid-November, Gov. Doug Burgum intervened, installing a statewide mask mandate. A month and a half later, the state's pandemic status is nearly unrecognizable: Active virus cases have descended from more than 10,000 at the time of the mandate to fewer than 2,000 today.

But neighboring South Dakota, which had vied with North Dakota for the worst-in-the-nation per capita metrics for much of October and November, has experienced a similarly remarkable turnaround, and without any significant state-level intervention.[/QUOTE]Go ahead guys, keep on destroying our hobby and our freedom for the virus with roughly the same mortality as the seasonal flu!

[QUOTE=HammerTime96;2556281]Go ahead guys, keep on destroying our hobby and our freedom for the virus with roughly the same mortality as the seasonal flu![/QUOTE]According to cdc. Gov / flu.

Since the 2010-2011 season, the estimated number of deaths from flu in United States has varied from 12,000 a year to 61,000 a year.

One year after the outbreak, March 1 2021, there were 530,000 deaths in USA (source worldometers). Maybe the USA population increased very fast but I have some doubts.

You have some issues with proportionality don't you?

No 'mathematics lessons for 12 years old' in your conspiracy theorists summer camps?

Take a ride to India, Brazil, Michigan state, Oregon State, Washington state USA, then tells us that it's only the seasonal flu.

[QUOTE=HammerTime96;2556281]Go ahead guys, keep on destroying our hobby and our freedom for the virus with roughly the same mortality as the seasonal flu![/QUOTE]Even better than USA, the world.

Influenza: [URL]https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-[/URL](seasonal).

From 290,000 to 650,000 deaths every year.

Covid 19 : [URL]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/[/URL].

Around 2 M deaths on January the 1st of 2021.

Define 'roughly' please. In your conspiracy thesaurus it's 'from factor x3 to factor x7', or something like that?

[QUOTE=Beijing4987;2556303]Take a ride to India, Brazil, Michigan state, Oregon State, Washington state USA, then tells us that it's only the seasonal flu.[/QUOTE]Comparing 3rd world countries like Brazil and especially India, with abhorrent hygiene 'standards,' to Western Europe and the US is just plain silly and yet another example of the gaslighting CCP trolls at work here. Why haven't TENS of MILLIONS of people died in the EU or US alone (combined population of approx 780 million people) if this is more dangerous than the seasonal flu?

Besides that, the absolute number from India are of course high, but the usual trolls here are too uneducated to see things in perspective: it's a 1. 4 billion inhabitants country, Sherlock, with a primitive caste system, huge poverty and malnutrition, and even more primitive hygiene standards. Duh! If it wasn't Covid, then it would have been something else. But the neo-Marxist CCP globalists here now pretend that Indian society is on par with Western Europe or the US because they want to use this for their "pro-lockdown" and "zero-Covid" vaxxing propaganda! LOL!

By the way, millions of Indians died before 2020 every year of malaria, malnutrition, a bubonic plague in 1994 (because of those 'fantastic' hygiene standards in India), or other 3rd world causes, but apparently nobody gave a shit about this in 2019 when "Covid19" wan't even 'invented' yet! / sarc.

P.S. Let's see how 'humane' you are by advocating that India should also have the same lockdowns as in Germany or even as brutal as in China, because according to your CCP ideology "lockdowns work," right? Let's see how many tens of millions of deaths that will cause due to the massive famine and resulting economic destruction!

There is supposedly a cock tail effect among mRNA vaccinated men with micro penises and a dog living in their vicinity. Supposedly the mRNA mixes with a dog virus (proton tunneling), and a mutation that caused the micro penis in the man (also proton tunneling). And then from there on through proton tunneling it causes something known as the cri du chat syndrome through a reduction of the small arm of the 5th chromosome.

As we know already, this in turn can lead to rabies stemming from the dog getting frisky from hearing mjau mjau sounds from the mrna vaccinated micro penis guy, who starts speaking cat in an effort to get kinky with his dog. Superimposed through this entire chain of events also being linked the increased levels of a loneliness syndrome stemming from watching too much porn. Or in essence a mixture of oxytocin and testosterone at a specific dosage.

This is very high tech science, and I don't expect you guys in here to understand it. But just go ahead and take the mRNA vaccine! Especially our wannabe doctors!

[QUOTE=HammerTime96;2556281][URL]https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/oktoberfest-2021-in-muenchen-absage-immer-wahrscheinlicher[/URL], SVlhH91.

This is how 'effective' all those "vaccines" are! / sarc.

Think about this guys: when they are seriously contemplating to cancel an event where people meet for a beer, do you really think that in September they will allow hundreds of horny men to walk around inside a steamy, smokey, poorly ventilated FKK club and so that they can have close physical contact with women?

Many people here are thinking with the wrong 'head. ' LOL! Ok

My amateur translation: 'The Bild newspaper quotes OB Reiter with the words: "hope is getting weaker from week to week. " Already a few weeks ago, Reiter has expressed reluctance regarding the chances of a "Wiesn" in this year. Bavaria's minister president, Markus Soeder (CSU), has also shown scepticism.'
[/QUOTE]Sadly it was officially cancelled today, citing concerns because Oktoberfest is a global event.

Basically, they don't want the risk of the Oktoberfest brand becoming associated with a global super spreader event if the worst happened.

If one chose to view with a optimistic lens, the fact that the fears are because of the risk of international spread, that means the authorities are expecting that international travel will be allowed by September.

[URL]https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-oktoberfest-canceled-again-in-2021-due-to-coronavirus/a-57413659[/URL]

[QUOTE=PaulInZurich;2556154]I made before phone calls from the terrace, even if not while with a WG. Phone in the pocket and bluetooth headset. How do manage to tie your shoe laces alone?[/QUOTE]Of course, hiding, you can do everything, but I thought you respected rules, reproaching me not to. When you say can use phone from Globe roof, you lie, but you can hide in showers in corner. But you can call from room, your girl will be happy you pay her to rest.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;2556345]Of course, hiding, you can do everything, but I thought you respected rules, reproaching me not to. When you say can use phone from Globe roof, you lie, but you can hide in showers in corner. But you can call from room, your girl will be happy you pay her to rest.[/QUOTE]You compare speeding 100 km / h with making a phone call.

[QUOTE=Mursenary;2556344]Sadly it was officially cancelled today, citing concerns because Oktoberfest is a global event.

Basically, they don't want the risk of the Oktoberfest brand becoming associated with a global super spreader event if the worst happened.

If one chose to view with a optimistic lens, the fact that the fears are because of the risk of international spread, that means the authorities are expecting that international travel will be allowed by September.

[URL]https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-oktoberfest-canceled-again-in-2021-due-to-coronavirus/a-57413659[/URL][/QUOTE]I don't think anybody was expecting Oktoberfest which has 6 million visitors to go ahead mid of September. Large tents with thousand of people crammed inside getting drunk, singing and shouting sure would not be prudent.

Eu definitely wants to open up for travel: [URL]https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_2121[/URL].

"The Commission proposes to allow entry to the EU for non-essential reasons not only for all persons coming from countries with a good epidemiological situation but [B]also all people who have received the last recommended dose of an EU-authorized vaccine[/B]".

And here is something for the local toddler: "This reflects the latest scientific advice showing that vaccination considerably helps to break the transmission chain".

[QUOTE=BigBuddy69;2556278]New alternate reality.Years of training 30+ h / week are useless, all you need is 1000 km a year during 4 months and some kind of crappy Taiwanese made mountain bike mounted with slick tires to compete with champions.[/QUOTE]After all his ridiculous claims how can I believe even the 1000 km claim. Maybe he does 0, just puts a bike on the car and drives up. Or borrows a bike at the top to make a picture. Still waiting for his strava files.

[QUOTE=HammerTime96;2556281]Here is North Dakota versus South Dakota: [URL]https://www.postbulletin.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6824462-North-Dakota-got-a-mask-mandate-South-Dakota-didnt.-COVID-19-cases-have-plummeted-in-both[/URL].
Go ahead guys, keep on destroying our hobby and our freedom for the virus with roughly the same mortality as the seasonal flu![/QUOTE]Too funny, you like to quote articles that don't support what you are saying. I want to congratulate you that you made it past the title and read the first paragraph. Unfortunately, you stopped there.

Here's how it continues: "low virus testing in South Dakota leaves observers with an incomplete picture of its outbreak".

"By Dec. 19, North Dakota had fallen more than 50% from its average hospitalizations high. By contrast, South Dakota had dropped just 29% over the same interval and still had not cleared the 50% threshold as of Dec. 30."

"Any parallel must come with the major caveat that South Dakota tests for the virus far less than North Dakota (North Dakota has consistently ranked in the top three states nationally in per capita testing, while South Dakota currently falls in the bottom 10)".

[QUOTE=HammerTime96;2556281]For all the "lockdowns-work" fanatics here: have a look at this graph: [URL]https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_deaths_per_million&Metric=Confirmed[/URL]+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=DEU SWE CHE.

Here is North Dakota versus South Dakota: [URL]https://www.postbulletin.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6824462-North-Dakota-got-a-mask-mandate-South-Dakota-didnt.-COVID-19-cases-have-plummeted-in-both[/URL].

Go ahead guys, keep on destroying our hobby and our freedom for the virus with roughly the same mortality as the seasonal flu![/QUOTE]To be clear, the article regarding the Dakotas referenced mask mandates, not lockdown-restrictions.

This is an interesting case worthy of analysis. Mask mandate North Dakota and Maskless South Dakota are similar in every way except the differing policies present. They present a convenient direct comparison of the effects of masks. As such, it would be nice to objectively discuss the case analytically with nuance rather than start another ideological flame war.

I think you previously made the point that the more you test, the more cases you will find. I agree. That being said, per your article:

[QUOTE]North Dakota has consistently ranked in the top three states nationally in per capita testing, while South Dakota currently falls in the bottom 10 (article was from January)[/QUOTE]Up to this point, the two states share similar case numbers. However, mask mandate-North Dakota has tested at over twice the rate as maskless South Dakota; yet, the number of positive results are similar in both states. This is the result of the positivity rate being over double in maskless South Dakota, 14.5% versus 7%. It would seem that the combination of the lack of a mask mandate and infrequent testing led to more asymptomatic cases spreading. Since South Dakota tests less, naturally their asymptomatic cases go unaccounted and the tests that are positive reflect more critical cases. I. E. There are more excess unreported cases in South Dakota than North Dakota.

This is reflected in the deaths per test in South Dakota being tripled that of North Dakota (0. 28 versus 0. 10) and total deaths being 30% higher.

Furthermore, prior to the mandate in North Dakota, both states reached their peaks around November 15th. However North Dakota reduced their cases to one-third in about four weeks while it took South Dakota about 7 weeks.

It appears that the masks are having a significant effect in North Dakota.

South Dakota:

[URL]https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/south-dakota[/URL]

North Dakota:

[URL]https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/north-dakota[/URL]

[QUOTE=PaulInZurich;2556357]You compare speeding 100 km / h with making a phone call.[/QUOTE]Never flashed above 120 on small Switzerland for snails autobahns, but I don't want to kill my brakes when limited to 100 or 80 from Globe back to Zurich, when I make huge effort not to feel asleep on snails autobahns, when I enjoy much more to pass curves full speed from Zurich to Globe, do you know radar can't flash in curves when then waves can't follow you, so Switzerland is the only country where you are more safe to be fast in curves than in straight lines. I miss some curves in Germany, arriving and passing so fast, needing 4 lines, targeting very inside entering and finishing on very left line, maybe you go to toilets before. So many kilometers in Switzerland and Germany, with 0 crash.