In denmark we were considering something simular.
Soon to allow germany/norway/ect into denmark (next month ish, I think).

However the worry of swedes visiting and spreading the virus was mentioned.
So basically they wanted to allow some countries access, but not others (based on the spread of the infections).

Ofc Sweden was quick to say "you cant just allow other countries access but then not us"


Honestly Canada not allowing US citizens into their country is perfectly understandable imo.

Woww.... Brazil is seeing crazy growth rates..... Their government gives 0 fucks.
Wont be long before you see 20,000+ or 30,000+ daily new cases there if they are not going to do anyhting to stop spread.

Russia's numbers got really high quick, but appears to be plateauing now.
Brazil's just keep on growing.

I think it makes sense for nations who have defeated the virus to open up travel with other nations who have also defeated it.

But... I think it would be asinine if Australia and New Zealand opened up to say... China or the United States, then we would have to go through that entire lockdown process again and take yet another economic hit when the disease inevitably starts to rear it's ugly head again.

And if New Zealand opened up to those countries, then I hope Australia cuts itself off from New Zealand.

Either way, progressive policy on containing COVID-19 and putting life above economic output has actually allowed those countries to defeat the virus faster and regain their economic output sooner, it's proven to be highly successful across the globe.

That even/odd question is just mean though.

I don't know how it's now, here or elsewhere, but I certainly had to recite multiplication tables in school when I was 8 or something, and I sucked hard at it lol. I did go on to rock math at high school, always getting high grades for that. Sadly now fifteen years later I forgot everything. Though that Tiger Algebra indeed doesn't make it easier, I'd substract 6 to get 3x=-3 and you'd immediately get your answer.

At that point its basically solved. S peelman.
However I'd aruge that when their that "simple" you dont even need to go that far.

"3x + 6 = 3,"

The +6 to = 3, means the X has to be a negative, because its turnings a bigger number smaller.
You know it needs to be something - 6 = 3.
What can you multiple 3 with, to get 3? 1.

Those things you can basically just eyeball and know the answear too.

Yeah I used to HATE reciteing multiplication tables too..... and ditto on the "fifteen years later I forgot everything" for algebra.

Only 40? As in 4/10? That's easy.

That's a serious flaw in those online schooling programs. This was from IXL I think. A lot of questions were true or false, even or odd stuff. Then it throws some 'complex' question on the screen with multiple ways to solve it, including guessing.

The stuff from the math books isn't much better. He had to say whether things were certain, impossible, likely or unlikely.
Then pictures of jars with beans, 4 red beans, 5 green beans, what's the possibility of getting a red bean.
Less than 50%, should be unlikely, wrong answer apparently...

Also to 'learn' about probabilities he had to make 2 spinners, one with even sections and one with unfairly distributed sections. Then record the outcome after spinning 25 times each. Of course no school materials at home, trying to improvise to build a wonky very biased spinner. Question, what differences do you observere. Answer, an experiment with shitty equipment delivers shitty results. Kid only gets confused lol.

Anyway you can't not advance here in elementary school. No child left behind lol.

A look at the different strategies graph

Brazil is out of control, starting to chase the USA for it's daily numbers. over 15K new cases yesterday and over 800 deaths daily.
Iran is slowly growing again, Canada has been flat for the past couple days.
Japan is still heading in the right direction while South Korea and now Australia have/had a slight uptick.
China, who knows, they had a bit higher numbers now back posting a couple cases a day.

Week over week comparison shows USA and Canada being on a steady slight decline

USA 89.4%, Canada 82.1% of daily reported cases week over week.
Europe is down to 80.4% week over week while the world as a whole is currently declining by 1.5% week over week (98.5% of last weeks numbers)

South America and Europe are currently virtually tied in daily reported case numbers thanks to the big surge in Brazil. Percentage of daily cases:

World 3 day average: 94,658 daily reported cases
North America: 30.9% (USA 26.6%)
Europe: 23.1% (Russia 10.8%)
South America: 23.0% (Brazil 14.3%)
Asia: 19.9% (India 4.0%)
Africa: 3.1% (South Africa 0.8%)

The USA still over a quarter of all reported cases, Russia almost half of Europe while Brazil is responsible for over 60% of South America.


The effect of Covid19 on GT Sport
https://www.kudosprime.com/gts/stats.php?stat_preset=weekly_sport_activity

The sharp increase started from March 14th. That while the game is buggier than ever :/ I'm hardly playing it anymore since PD broke the penalty system beyond redemption. Yet with this kind of feedback, why fix it :/ (I used to race almost 3 hours a day before the pandemic)

Well, Australia is very strong in exports. Especially with raw materials. Even if the domestic market wouldn't suffer much, your exports could and if people working in an exporting industry will suffer, they will also spend less on the domestic market. Maybe not even because of a definite job loss but because of the fear to lose the job. 

It's not fun to buy a new car, furniture or whatever with an uncertain future.

I guess most exports go to China because you have what they need but if they need less from you because as example Europe needs less from China then it will still hit Australia.

Sure, many other countries will be in much bigger trouble but with such a connected world economy, it won't be a fun time for any country.

I just hope that not too many will give up and take their own life.

Of course they did, they have a Norwegian striker now.

The whole football thing is ridiculous, it's a contact sport with tackles and tumbles for over 90 minutes, asking for distancing when celebrating makes zero sense. If the risk for transmission of the virus is considered that high, it seems stupid to start the league at all. I wonder if health officials have ever watched a game of football at some point in their life and know what it's actually about (Schalke clearly don't know what it's about though... ).