Yes, I know, sorry. I was mostly just venting, because THERE ARE people here in Germany being proud about a performance that I find entirely frustrating.
I didn’t want to imply you or your colleague are part of that group.
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Social distancing done right in a traditional coffee/tsipouro place for old people:
The old fellow has some SICK moves I tell you 
The post needs FB login, maybe a screenshot?..
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It is actually a 40 second video. I tried to find it on some other source, but I couldn’t locate it.
It is a bit hard to describe, but very worth it and quite inspiring actually, considering the situation.
Είναι ένας 70+ χρονος σε καφενείο, με τους ηλικιωμένους στην σωστή απόσταση. Έχουν μαζέψει όλες τις καρέκλες στην άκρη λόγω καραντίνας και το έχουν κάνει πίστα και χορεύει Μάικλ Τζάκσον ο θεούλης … και χορεύει καλά!
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There is hope: Israeli hospital claims may have found cure for COVID-19
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I was looking at the new lockdown measures in Greece and I think our specialists found the cure: overwhelm the virus with mental zig-zags so it will self-destruct into madness!
Or they’re just that stupid?
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This is our prime minister:
This is his right hand:
This is our minister of health doing his ACTUAL job (at which he was mediocre, but at least he made an effort):
This is the leader of the opposition:
This is the leader of another “opposition” party, selling beeswax ointments to totally prevent the spread of the coronavirus (to stay totally in topic 
) … the same person is also selling some other ointments which he swears cure hair-loss, while he, himself is obviously not cured 
:
And that is the tip of the iceberg, with things that do not really require and linguistic knowledge. Even with that you can now answer that question easily. They are not stupid per se, but we, as a society, are. 
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Our Captain Clown (aka Prime Minister) was caught on an island, having a nice gathering with about 50 people. The same day sunset lockdown was put in place.
Mainstream media is crickets. (I would like to recap here media collectively received in the past few months millions that we supposedly didn’t have to invest to ICUs).
First excuse was that it just happened, friends went for a visit (I would like to recap here people who are kept overtime by their bosses and caught outside are fined. The employees, not the bosses).
Second excuse is that all of them are vaccinated. (I would like to recap here that government known affiliates were caught getting vaccinated before high risk people and it was buried under 10 tons of media laundry).
Power was out in Western Attica last night (I would like to recap here that that’s where people have been heavily fined and being kept in heavy lockdown because of some “phantom” rise in cases that data doesn’t support, and coincidentally is the place where low income people are staying and are starting to feel fed up by things).
Extra nugget: A rise in cases was reported somewhere and media blurted out that our “Suppress the masses” (aka Police) Minister went to assess the situation. Not doctors, not epidemiologists, not Minster of Public Affairs (?), the Police.
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In times of virus thousand ten thousand dont go to party. this is bad idea. you will very regret.
Excess mortality
computed relative to the baseline obtained using linear extrapolation of the 2015–19 trend
purple is 2021, but in many countries data is behind the time
For more countries, information and sort by % of increase go to
Also there is information of how many times excess mortality is bigger than deaths in daily coronavirus statistics
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What I take this to mean is that we better prepare for mask fashion in the following years.
I predict frills for late 20s and dusty pinks and blues for early 30s.
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“Our thinking that it’s more of a respiratory disease is not necessarily true,”
“Once it infects the brain it can affect anything because the brain is controlling your lungs, the heart, everything.
researchers have found that infecting the nasal passages of mice with the virus that causes COVID-19 led to a rapid, escalating attack on the brain that triggered severe illness, even after the lungs were successfully clearing themselves of the virus.
So, if you breath through mouth only, will you be saved?
Not much has changed since last episode…
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Deaths still relatively low, although there’s a spike in cases again.
I want to hope it just hasn’t been as deadly…
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4 weeks ago:
The curfew that was installed here 4 weeks ago seems to have delayed the next wave by a week or two, but it looks like that projection is starting to become reality now…
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@gennan, I am worried that covid might disrupt rare Elfstedentocht opportunity. How’s that looking?
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We had exactly 1 week of temperatures below 0, then it started to get warm again, so this year, like every year since 1997, it giet net oan.
Should be said, that apart from the disappointment in the physical absence of enough natural ice, it was already decided beforehand that this year there would be no Elfstedentocht due to covid anyways.
Here’s a video from 1997, mostly in Frysk (of some of which I understand about as much as an average English speaker, I guess):
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Thankyou @Vsotvep. It’s hard to find up to date info on something in the wrong language (for me) even though we have Dutch News on free to air TV on Lord Howe Island! 
Note: I don’t mean to be flippant in my query. I am painfully aware of the seriousness of the situation in Holland and elsewhere.
I hope this is just bad google translation or your way of saying “c’est la vie”. It matters to me!
I was very much hoping that the event could go ahead safely with minimal ‘en passant’ crowds and so forth. As an ex-marathoner, I have a long-held fascination with this event. I still enjoy watching my 30min VHS of the '97 event and would gladly suffer sleep deprivation to watch one live.
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“It giet oan” means “it will happen”, “it giet net oan” means “it won’t happen”. Traditionally (seems to be mainly tradition since 1997 because of that guy in the video, I now see), when the Elfstedentocht is announced, that happens with the words “it giet oan”. You can see the first guy say it in the video above.
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