Covid-19 Politics

[broncofan]

. I have friends who spend a month in Crete every May but I haven't spoken to them recently to find out of they are going this year. I have only been once but it is a splendid place to visit, should you ever make it to this part of the world.

These links are to articles/guides published in late March-
https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/...safe-to-travel

https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content...ravel-updates/

I had seen the other travel posts before my last post but missed this one. Good post. By summer travel might be a bit easier, even judging by some of the out of date links I found from last summer. So we'll see.

[broncofan]

Virile? Oh hell yes...I'm a god-damned sexual tyrannosaurus!

I'm thinking of telling women I'm a sexual tyrannosaurus. Then after sex when she says, "I thought you said you're a sexual tyrannosaurus!" I can say "yeah, I have short arms and am surprisingly quick. What did you think I meant?"

[Stavros]

I'm thinking of telling women I'm a sexual tyrannosaurus. Then after sex when she says, "I thought you said you're a sexual tyrannosaurus!" I can say "yeah, I have short arms and am surprisingly quick. What did you think I meant?"

Probably not a good idea to advertise yourself as a Dinosaur. Meanwhile, foreign travel is not advised, so you might want to save your money for another time, say 2022, given that the US is still mired in the virus. But if it is no longer the case 'no one is safe until everyone is safe' -how can you know if trip abroad is safe? The risk factor may determine our behavour over the next 1-5 years.

[Jericho]

I'm thinking of telling women I'm a sexual tyrannosaurus. Then after sex when she says, "I thought you said you're a sexual tyrannosaurus!" I can say "yeah, I have short arms and am surprisingly quick. What did you think I meant?"

Work when it's time to get a round in, too!

[Jericho]

Ah, Rhyl...look on the bright side...there must be a bright one.

Gods know I've looked, but the only brightside I've ever found, is the A55 exit that'll take you somewhere decent!

[Ben]

Global rollout of vaccines is no longer a guarantee of victory over Covid-19:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-over-covid-19

[filghy2]

And why does no one ever want to talk about the cost of the lockdown? Suicides are at an all-time high. Depression is at an all-time high. Crime statistics are through the roof. The economy is suffering badly. We're now raising an entire generation of children who have lost a full year of education and social development; who can even calculate what the final cost of that will be? All this to save the lives of a relative handful of old people and lungers. Trump is not a genius - well, maybe an accidental one sometimes - but he's no dipshit either. He knew immediately that the cure would be worse than the disease.

Elvis appears to have left the building, but the data for 2020 are now in and they show that there was no increase at all in suicides (in fact, a small decrease compared to previous years). There was an increase in drug overdose deaths, but this was only a small fraction of Covid deaths.
https://www.vox.com/2021/4/6/2236821...-lockdown-2020

[Stavros]

Three articles from the press in India which expain how the country has gone from being in a situation where-

"...on January 29th, during his speech at the Davos forum, PM Modi said that the country had won the war on COVID-19, something he repeated in Parliament a week later, and India won acclaim from around the world. At the time, India was seeing about 11,000 new cases a day nationwide and 1.5 lakh active cases. Today that number has grown to 3 lakh new cases and 24 lakh active cases on an upward trend."
https://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...le34394622.ece
(A lakh is 100,000)

"There are three key factors behind what went wrong: government response, public behaviour and variants"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-...fold/100089732

Modi, out of touch, but not out of office-

"Despite the situation, Mr Modi urged states to avoid lockdowns if possible.
“In the current situation, we have to save the country from another lockdown,” he said on Tuesday. “I urge states only to use lockdowns as the last resort.” "
https://www.thenationalnews.com/worl...wave-1.1208697

A friend in India is in despair at the behaviour of the Govt, if not surprised. It is time for India to ban all international travel, and for the UK at least, to ban all travel between the UK and India. Will people ever learn what makes it so easy for the virus to spread? The complacency in India has been sickening -literally.

[blackchubby38]

Mayor De Blasio: "NYC will be fully opened on July 1st".


Governor Cuomo: "Unzips pants, takes out dick, "All of NYS will be fully opened on May 19th".

[Stavros]

Mayor De Blasio: "NYC will be fully opened on July 1st".

Governor Cuomo: "Unzips pants, takes out dick, "All of NYS will be fully opened on May 19th".

Thank you for clarifying the situation in city and state...