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This is no excuse to lift what? The lockdown on businesses? Maybe one should consider how many people are wearing masks compared to how many didn't before. Compliance has gone way up. And there was evidence that before shutdowns that social distancing was working. How people look at the US...

Got it. I think a lot of people are smart enough to discern these things as much as possible. Everyone has bias and maybe I am somewhat biased to listen to DerEchte since we think similarly. But while I have heard anecdotally the same things he says about treatment in Germany and Korea, he...

People blaming the rating system for human nature. That said, no one likes to lose a lot. Ratings central had a more complicated view of improvement that was slower and more realistic. But not sure whether people would like that system either.

But this is true for players in various ways in competitive settings. I mean, my coach tried to get me to play all levels of players, but I know many players who get bored playing worse players, including myself on some days - no one enjoys playing someone who is not a challenge in some ways...

I think it is quite possible that many of those crazy people, including myself, are actually decently employed people to some degree who just carry over their attitude to work or other hobbies to table tennis. I will speak for myself when I say that trying to get good enough to beat most of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXw3XqwSZFo Vitamin D and viral interactions.

What I will say is that the new bad rap Chloroquine is getting is a bit of a political thing and I blame Trump in part for unprofessionally promoting it. I will let DerEchte respond but if he doesn't, I will write about what I know or have heard about some of these things.

The devil is always in the details. I do agree on the whole with what you have written. That said, I don't see a way with a virus like this in the population to avoid massive casualties. When I was annoyed with leadership, I was really speaking about Trump. I watch his press conferences...

I agree and in large part I blame the silly leadership at the top right now. The tone is just completely wrong. That said, you are in Texas and I am in PA - different sensibilities.

If we had the kind of lockdown they had in Wuhan, then I might agree with you. But one of the reasons Sweden didn't go that route was that they realized it was incompatible with their society. Maybe you need to familiarize yourself a bit more with what is actually going on in lockdowns in the...

The problem with table tennis is really that if one person is spreading the disease, you are exposed to them and their environment for a sufficiently long time that you are at a much higher risk of contacting the disease than if you were just walking through a crowd. Obviously, you are mixing...

This is the official position from the WHO - they don't know enough to say that reinfection is not a real possibility. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/who-immunity-antibodies-covid-19/index.html

BTW, I agree 100% that the American approach to public behavior when contagious diseases are around has to change. Hopefully, masks, handwashing and social distancing will be a staple of flu season and the police will figure out how to do their jobs with the new normal.

Right now, Nigeria is in lockdown. Unlike the US, Nigeria has mostly poor people who need to work to get their income. The oil prices are hitting the government hard since oil determines the exchange rates. The funny thing is that the lockdown is going on without really good evidence that the...

If most of the people who get infected recover without issues ( and this is the general wisdom surrounding this disease at the moment ), why would you prefer that people get prevented from going to work at all coat and 28 million people filing for unemployment to letting the disease spread while...

Herd immunity is one aspect of everything - even without heard immunity people survive the disease. Another aspect is that you can't control how the disease spreads forever in a lockdown other than to delay the inevitable. The funny thing is that we aren't even implementing serious lockdowns...

So how will a lockdown solve for that?

So in other words, none of the countries practicing lockdown managed to do better than Sweden. I know we love to write but the answer is simple - reducing the spread after the disease enters your country is unlikely to have good results unless you can eradicate the infection. What really works...

So which country which had a lockdown succeeded in protecting them? The point is that if the virus hits a nursing home, then that is what drives the problem. A lockdown doesn't address that problem directly. We will see in retrospect. The lockdown when discussed in terms exclusively of its...

Watch the video I just posted that is all I have to say. We can revisit in a year's time since you don't seem to grasp that there is a difference between mitigating strategies and locking down the economy especially when the population at risk is largely identifiable and protectable. No one is...