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They should also check which music genre they dislike. I think viruses aren't much into classical opera singing

It isn't April fools day, I had to check too don't worry

This has to be some sort of 'there thick of enough to think I'm serious so I'm running with it' performance art!!!

wtf did I just watch

I did Nazi that coming.

Decent ton by Babar Azam @McAzeem

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57798520 "Gyms in South Korea's capital Seoul and its surrounding region have been told not to play music with a tempo higher than 120 beats per minute (bpm), in order to limit the spread of Covid-19."

Remarque I love Remarque. Have read all his books I could get my hands on when I was a teen, and could relate to every single one of them. A very unique feeling. It's good to know there's someone else out there who appreciates him as much as I do!

I always find it ironic that in an effort to stop piracy on a game, developers somehow make the game run shitter on a legit copy, but pirates manage to make it run smoothly on a pirated copy.

Yes, most western analyst and academia avoid this but Taliban due their religious rural background have a lot of support from rural Afghanistan. The recent rapid conquests by them to everyone's surprise even theirs should be enough to realise they have an indigenous stronghold.

I think the reality is, the biggest "new normal" in our "post-COVID" world is that there isn't going to be a "post-COVID" world. You look at Singapore, a country that's been an absolute leader in it's COVID response and managing the virus... and they're talking about COVID as something that we'll just have to live with forever. It'll go from being a pandemic to an endemic, like chickenpox, there will probably just always be a baseline level of COVID going around in any given country (and what that baseline is will probably depend on country to country). So I don't really think we'll ever return to a true "pre-COVID normal" tbh. Too many governments of massive countries around the world really botched the intial response to the virus for that to really ever be a possibility. At the same time, I do think countries that have high vaccination rates do need to start dropping restrictions and start letting people have as close to a reasonable return to normalcy as possible. My dad's a small business owner that did his best to adapt to COVID, but dealing with the economic impact of the pandemic + issues with importing and costs of ingredients going up have been a nightmare for him. That's probably the case for many businesses, big and small, all across the UK. And that's the livelihood of millions of people across the country - and internationally as well. The economic cost has been very high and I don't think it's sustainable for much longer unless we want to run all small businesses out of operation and leave everything to by the country/world's richest people. Aside from the economic cost, the emotional and societal cost has been huge. Suicides and arrests for domestic violence have gone way up in a lot of countries as people and families have lived in isolation - in some places for well over a year. Alcoholism is probably skyhigh worldwide too (I haven't looked at the numbers for that though, I'm just making a guess). I'd never heard that myth taken seriously by anyone, tbh. I'm surprised it ever got legs. Kids had COVID pretty early on in Wuhan, so it was easily disprovable. They may have had milder cases than their parents/grandparents, but they could get it and spread it just like anyone else. There's no doubt COVID is serious and that people are right to be worried about new variants. We'll likely be having to need boosters to our current vaccines and be dealing with various COVID outbreaks for the rest of our lives tbh. But I do think countries where a lot of people are vaccinated are right in easing restrictions. Does that mean I don't think goverments should be inflexible and never put restrictions higher ever again? Absolutely not - I think it depends on a case by case basis. But I don't think people and businesses can wait much longer to know there's a light at the end of the tunnel or that we can anticipate things ever being the same as they were before the pandemic. COVID's permanently changed the world and it's highly likely we need to learn how to function as a society with the very high likelihood that there will be baseline levels of COVID even in societies that had an excellent vaccine rollout and/or good early controls for COVID. But I still think places like Peru, Brazil, India, Iran, etc... where we're seeing more and more waves of the virus, they probably need to be kept on extreme lockdowns until the spread is contained better and vaccines are more easily available. And for places like Australia, where they've been very cautious but the vaccine rollout has been slow... they've got to expedite getting jabs into arms. Otherwise @Harry's never going to experience life outside of lockdown again.

Hope you’ve made a recovery mate! A good friend of mine was on oxygen and has now been moved to intensive care.