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Yes, irresponsible to even consider any near-term international event. EGMO is cancelled, https://egmo2020.nl/2020/03/13/egmo2020-in-the-netherlands-is-cancelled/, and that's nowhere near Olympic scale — “more than 500 people, coming from more than 50 countries, were planning to come to the...

Because you think rushing to the gun store in utter panic is a rational response? Not getting that entirely.

Proposition A. Proposition B. The juxtaposition of A and B, to the casual reader, might suggest a relation between A and B. If indeed read like that (A, therefore B), that's textbook confirmation bias. You didn't mean it that way, now did you, Carl? Or did you really mean to say you think...

stammi bene intanto!

So you're a 1/2 closed type of person, whereas I'm guessing NL is a 1/2 open kind of guy?

Grazed the table edge, but a miraculous recovery resulted in a nasty wiggle.

Netherlands. All TT activities ceased as of last thursday, clubs closed.

Not to pile it on, but really, NL, you might want to reassess your perspective there.

Over here we're just one small step away from total lockdown now. Which means I'll spend 24/7 with my young'uns aka The Creatures That Live Upstairs, as well as with my estranged former spouse who managed to get stranded here. Now there's a challenge! I'm practicing serves on an improvised...

… and then Ba'al nailed it.

Been reading up, and found https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca to be an excellent analysis. ‘If you want your city or your country to be part of the 4%, don’t do anything today.’

That's about 7%, but there's still reason to hope that of the remaining infections that neither died nor recovered yet a larger percentage will in fact recover. As long as the health system doesn't collapse, that is. When it starts doing so, the grim reality of Italy comes into view, now at a...

Quote of the day for me. Nailed it!

Influenza is also not contained. We manage to cope with it, albeit with a serious casualty rate. New strains appear, and take their toll on (mostly) the weak. The rest lives on and handles it, attuning their immune systems as they go along. We will need to whether the first wave, should try...

The Sweden Extra has anegre outer plies, which is harder and more dense than some other top plies — and much less prone to splintering. I don't think you need to seal it.

The current guestimates about penetration I've seen range from 40% to near 80%. But it's not merely that percentage, but the span of time in which infections occur. Right now, the number of infections in countries in the EU closely follow an exponential growth curve, with roughly a doubling...

Which is exactly why we can't have massive events that lessen the degrees of separation now. Like the Olympics. The key question becomes, how many handshakes away? Mass events with people from all over mingling reduce the (timeboxed) degree of separation between arbitrary individuals. My...

KBO leads to KDO?

I would not claim it's not formidable already. I'm merely stating that at this point in time limiting exposure (on conjuction with suppressing the infection rate upon exposure) is all we have to dampen the slope of the logistics curve — which is what, if anything, gives us a fighting chance. I...

Well, to have it it would be to create formidable additional exposure vectors. At this point, flattening the logistics curve is all we can do for a fighting chance to deal with the upcoming onslaught, hoping we can prevent a total health system collapse, first, and the subsequent total societal...