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Well he never rated Vettel for sure

It's kind of what I was implying. The team atmosphere (and the general atmosphere in the paddock) outside F1 is usually much healthier with less hostility and toxic competition. Especially in WEC or Dakar where it's mostly about the teamwork and not about the individual anyway. If he was such a cunt as portrayed though then one would expect him to struggle in any team, this is definitely not the case so it makes me wonder if it's more specific to the nature of F1 than to Alonso's personality.

I find it interesting though how he doesn't have this reputation in any of the other series he's participated. IndyCar, WEC, Dakar; haven't heard a bad word about him from anyone there nor seen examples of his infamous "attitude". Maybe a lot of it is due to F1 surroundings...

Second from the left?

An antiviral drug named EIDD-2801 has showed promising results on mice and will move into clinical trials soon. Action mechanism similar to that of remdesivir but unlike remdesivir, EIDD-2801 can also be taken as a pill instead of having to be administred intravenously, so offers better ease of treatment and potentially prophylaxis. Could be potentially used together with remdesivir for greater efficacy. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uonc-ana040320.php

This. Doesn't matter if you're the PM, a celebrity, or a president with best available care in the world. If you're fucked, you're fucked.

BBC says it's fake news. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52180223

Do you mean ventilator? That's not good

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whoa.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615434/ai-machine-learning-social-outcome-prediction-study/ @Mel81x not surprising but an interesting read nevertheless. Bad news for Rehoboam

Yeah I think it's the most sensible thing that Bayern could have done and unfortunately, they went with it. Couldn't you have given Klinsmann a chance?

Oh ffs.

Hansi Flick's contract extended until 2023.

I don't know the exact logistics of it, but basically it was an order placed and paid for by the Berlin police, the masks were coming from China and should had been placed on a German bound cargo plane in Bangkok. Instead it was "seized" and diverted to the US instead. Probably bribed some Thai authorities to get it done, they are quite close with the Americans. Berlin police as well as German politicians including the minister of health alrady confrmed that, but apparently the amount of masks was mis-reported. It should be 200000 instead of 600000. France accussed the US of doing the same to their order too. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/USA-fangen-von-Berlin-bestellte-Schutzmasken-ab-article21691173.html

No worries, the US just stole 600000 masks on the way from Bangkok to Berlin and diverted them to the USA instead.

Austria are also taking in French patients now as they have more ICU capacity available. https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3042106/

Well if you look at how the construction of Berlin Brandenburg airport has been going then you'll see that Germany is not always that efficient... But I know what you mean and there's some truth to pretty much any stereotype. I think a lot of it is down to bureaucracy, fondness of following the rules and getting things done right the first time by following established practices. I don't think efficiency has much to do with the virus numbers in Germany though.

Haven't heard it for years.

He´s lovely... What´s the name?

4053 new cases and 837 new deaths in Italy, the number of new ICU admissions finally drops in Lombardy. The numbers are still staggering...but hopefully they´re past the peak now.

Just because they didn´t have a name for it in 1920s doesn´t mean it´s a myth.

Keep yourself busy and use the time to learn something new to use in the future. Communicate with your friends online, it´s not the same but better than nothing. Go out for a walk.