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Hardly ever before has the choice of the VP-candidate been as crucial as with this election. Namely, as it is perfectly possible that Trump could lose but surely nobody believes that Biden could last four years as President. It has been the case that the safest pick for a VP-candidate is someone who is a boring and grey personality. Namely, you are unlikely to win more votes by picking a good VP-candidate but you are very likely to lose votes by picking a bad one. It has been speculated that one of the biggest reasons why John McCain lost in 2008 was because Sarah Palin was considered far too eccentric. Therefore you pick someone like the one Hillary picked. Hardly anybody remembers him anymore. Similarly Trump picked Mike Pence who makes grey wallpaper look interesting in comparison.

Gates isn't acting out of goodness of his heart. I guess he thinks he doesn't have enough money so he needs to make some more.

The guy based on whose advice Britain was placed under a lockdown has previously got his predictions totally wrong. In 2009 he predicted that 200 million people worldwide would die of the swine flu. The real death toll was few thousands. Beside, some time ago he himself breached the lockdown-rules. It appears there is one rule for the masters and another for the peasants.

Large crowd events like concerts or sports aren't coming back soon but otherwise things are beginning to open up.

Biden's gaffes are not really funny any more. They are actually sad. An old man is being taken advantage of in a cynical way. It will be interesting to see do some people really hate Trump even so much that they want to get rid of him if that meant having Biden in his place.

We get news from Sweden how the situation there is really bad but even there it is very heavily concentrated. Namely, the capital Stockholm is currently something of the biggest hotbed of the virus and a couple of other cities are also having problems but Sweden is a relatively large country and in most places there is no virus at all. However, as the borders are beginning to open and the tourism-season will begin Swedes are not welcome in many locations because of the very bad record of the country concerning the virus. I'm sure many people living in the Woods in Sweden are quite pissed off for having their Holiday being denied because of the situation in their capital. Another thing is that a vast proportion of the deaths in Sweden, as well as here in Finland, are in old-age care homes. In Sweden another large proportion is the ethnic minorities. The thing with the ethnic minorities is that they don't do social distancing. They just don't do it. It is unthinkable to even expect them to do it.

Biden has reached the stage in his dementia when you speak like a child; whatever comes to your mind you say it out aloud.

Isn't there some definition regarding when an epidemic is considered to be over? Something about x number of consecutive days without any new reported cases. That x number of days wasn't a short time either.

Even though I have taken the coronavirus-crisis with 4/5 seriousness and still continue to do so but I just can't help thinking what if all those people are right who said from the beginning and have said all along that this coronavirus-hysteria is bullshit. The biggest scam in a long time if ever. I could understand if hysteria could be created in one country like Canada or Finland but if this coronavirus is a scam how can you create a situation where the whole world is paralysed with fear?

We are slowly opening. We never had as strong restrictions as some other European countries. The only restriction which I personally am waiting for to be lifted is that I really yearn to get to the gym again. I don't care about bars being shut until the end of the world. Super-markets are open and there is beer.

I'm afraid there will be a lot of deaths from usually treatable diseases but which are taking the back-seat now as all medical attention is focused on the coronavirus.

Britain is also an island and they are beginning to have the worst death-toll in Europe surpassing Italy. Maybe it tells that their government has really spectacularly failed in their attempts to combat the virus.

Indeed, when people are forced to face inconvenience such as a house arrest it is important that a sense of fairness remains. In other words, as long as people feel that everybody is going through the same thing people will persist. However, once people start noticing that there are different rules for different people and some people's flouting of the rules is dealt with rigorously whiole others iis looked through the fingers people's morale will go down drastically.

It is easy to understand that in a densely packed city like NYC people have to be forced into what is little short of a house arrest but applying the same rules everywhere doesn't make sense. Imagine somebody walking in some rural area in an open field with nobody else anywhere around and the police comes and asks: "What are you doing outside? Don't you know it's curfew? We will have to fine you now" In Britain they are using drones to detect people who have not stayed indoors. Can't help feeling that for some people the point of all of this is not to stop the spread of the virus but to keep people locked inside their homes.

The problem with countries like Australia and NZ is that since they are so far away from anywhere and so isolated that if you grow up in those places you have the inescapable urge to travel to see the real world which is out there which you think you don't know about because you live in such an isolated place. Not so much the case these days because of the internet but it is still there. The internet is no substitution to being somewhere in person. Americans are well-known to have little interest in foreign travel because they either have no time or no money for such things as travelling outside of the USA . A minority of the US citizens even have a passport.

Is it even technically possible to ditch Biden as the nominee unless he dies or something? He clearly isn't in this world any more. He belongs to some retirement-home instead of the White House. If/when he still gets the nomination, the worst nightmare is that he nominates someone like Kamala Harris as VP-candidate. Biden wouldn't last 4 years as President. Kamala is horrible. Actually kamala means horrible in Finnish.

It kind of makes you wonder what a house of cards the whole economic system really is. Big multi-million businesses have a short stop in their profits and they go straight into economic difficulties. Or perhaps they would have a Plan B if there wasn't a guarantee of them being bailed out by the government. Imagine yourself if you for some reason stop having any income at all. How long would it last until you would run into serious problems? Some people straight away but others could hold on for some time relying on their savings. Seems that the big businesses haven't been saving for a rainy day.

The only western country which can claim to have handled this crisis well is New Zealand and they are an isolated island-nation far away from anywhere.

In the future studies will be done as distance-work from home like a lot of work has been done during the lockdown-period. Only the least talented need to show up at the school.

I wonder what have the greens some to infuriate ultra-leftist Michael Moore so that he has made a film showing green energy in a not so favourable light.

I thought this fake news was buried many days ago. Apparently not.

It's a cry wolf-thing. When people have been lied to many enough times they won't recognize when they are told the truth.

The problem is that these people who are pushing these vaccinations aren't exactly the paragons of honesty themselves. Therefore people have every right to treat them and their ideas with utmost suspicion.

Even though otherwise I couldn't care less about the British royals but I regard it as a bit of return to normality when the British press publish stories about the royals as their first news.

Taiwan is next to Wuhan and they are very safe. That is because they have their tentacles ready for the slightest aberration from normal and act accordingly.