What Does Portugal's 'State of Calamity' Mean for the Lousa World Cups?
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Last Wednesday, Portugal announced a 'State of Calamity' and announced further restrictions to help stem the spread of Coronavirus. Portugal has fared better than most Western European countries at controlling the spread of COVID 19 but has still recorded a total of 106,000 cases and 2,229 deaths from its population of 10.28 million.
However, its cases have started to rise rapidly since the start of September and the country is now recording around 2,000 new cases and double-digit more deaths each day. On October 16, it recorded 2,608 new cases, the most since the pandemic began. To help combat the spread of the disease, Portugal's prime minister has limited gatherings to five people and raised the maximum fines for shops, restaurants and other businesses that violate anti-COVID-19 rules to €10,000.
Isn't there a Formula 1 Grand Prix in Portugal this weekend?
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Yes, an even bigger event than the downhill World Cups is going ahead this weekend in Portugal, the Formula One Grand Prix. The good news is that Open Air events have not yet been banned by the government. Visit Portugal advises: "Outdoor shows can take place in a delimited venue to allow access control, even if free. They must follow rules of social distance and circulation, in order to minimize physical contact".
The Grand Prix was originally supposed to run with 46,000 spectators, half the venue's total capacity, but it will now only be open to 27,500 attendees. The Portuguese government said that fans will be "distributed by separated stands, with a variable occupancy capacity and divided into sectors of about 800 people". There will be no moving between stands and spectators will be spread out within the stand to ensure social distancing.
We'll be watching the event closely but if it goes ahead as planned we can't see why two downhill World Cups couldn't the next weekend.
What is the current status of the downhill World Cups?
Get used to sparse finish areas, spectators are encouraged to stay away from Lousa this weekend.
Currently, the races in Lousa are scheduled to go ahead from 30 October to 1 November. The border with Portugal's only land neighbor, Spain, also remains open, which should mean teams have no issue driving their pits from Maribor to Lousa. With most of the new cases in Portugal concentrated in the north and around the capital Lisbon, the Coimbra region that is home to Lousa should also avoid the predicted local lockdowns in the immediate future.
The organizers, Montanha Clube, have announced that spectators will not be allowed at the venue. They said, "The best place to watch is at home! Given the current global situation, the Mountain Clube will not create any public conditions in Mercedes-Benz UCI MTB World Cup, unlike what it would want. We appeal to common sense and respect from everyone in order to achieve our event safely! Watch live stream on RedBull TV!"
Other than that, you can expect the masks, regular testing and peloton bubble of previous rounds to remain in effect to keep the riders safe and separate from the Portuguese public. We contacted the organizers for further information on the status of the event but they did not respond for comment.
Of course, the situation is still subject to change as the outbrek continues to worsen and further restrictions could still be brought in that affect the running of the race. For now, we're keeping everything crossed that we get to go racing again next weekend as long as it is safe to do so.
Update: Reuters is reporting that today the Felgueiras, Lousada and Pacos de Ferreira municipalities in Portugal, will enter partial lockdowns on Friday. Residents in these areas will only be able to leave home for work, school or other essential activities such as buying food and medicine. All three are located around 150km (90 miles) north of Lousa.
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Only this comes to mind.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGSLKWeVwE
About time to stock up on toilet paper again? For nostalgic reasons.
Rad! My older bro took me to see Metallica with Dave M as the frontman at the Keystone on Broadway.
Our soda cans were red white and blue ones..
You are correct, the Stone in SF. There was a Keystone in Palo Alto also, saw Metallica there as well. Fishbone too at both spots.
Fishbone shows were sick - mad energy.
- it's not the President who changes the restrictions, rather the Prime Minister
- it was announced today that, on that weekend, citizens will be forbidden to cross municipality borders (except some exceptions, like work). I guess this one might have an impact on the event
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Flying hundreds of people all across the globe to have them race down a track isn’t necessary and not justifiable at this point IMHO.
And I DO like WCs, watching them and am absolutely fine with people having their fun. But these are dire times for big events.
There's nothing about her record that would somehow mask the 10-point national lead Biden has in polls. It just isn't feasible.
People need to show up and vote, that's it.
If you look at the polls asking people if they think they are better off now than they were in 2016, they are very favorable to the President.
Kamala doesn't have good favorability ratings. She fought against getting a DNA test for an innocent man on death row. I mean, how can you get any more evil than that?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Trump supporter. He (just like Biden) is a rapist and a war monger. I like Pence as a person, but I don't agree with his policies either.
"He (just like Biden) is a rapist"
Jesus christ, mate. Get your information from sources other than conspiracy websites/facebook/youtube channels.
So what's the end game?
No illness ever? No illness according to death ever? No sickness that lands you in the hospital? What?
A friend of Tara Reade said that Reade had confided in her about the alleged assault when it happened. A second friend whom Reade met about a decade after the incident says that Reade also told her around 2007/2008 about the alleged assault.
On August 11, 1993 a woman called into Larry King Live from San Luis Obispo, CA asking for advice on a problem her daughter was having as a staffer in the office of a prominent senator. Tara Reade claims the woman calling is her mother. CNN confirmed Reade’s mother lived in San Luis Obispo.
In March 25, 1996, Tara Reade’s then husband filed a court declaration which stated that Tara Reade had told him in 1993 that she was being sexually harassed while working in the office of Senator Joe Biden. He also wrote that: “It was obvious that this event had a very traumatic effect on (Reade), and that she is still sensitive and effected by it today.”
She confided in multiple people when it happened in 1993. Plus there is tons of video and photo evidence of biden being sexually inappropriate with women and young girls.
Biden: 1
Trump: 25
Well there’s one thing he is ahead of Biden on
Her lawyers at the moment, are a prominent Trump supporter, and a former writer for Sputnik (Russian state media).
Man, you Biden supporters are just as blind as any Trump supporter. I have family who post stuff like, "Obama kicked Jesus out of the White House. Trump invited him back in" and other nonsense. How could someone be so blind? Well guess what, you and I are just as blind to our own candidates (I don't have one, luckily). Just google "creepy joe" and there are over a hundred pictures of him being sexually inappropriate with women and young girls.
If you look at peoples actual behavior, everyone with high school age kids is moving away from California and New York (which have the strictest lockdowns). My area of Utah, which pretty much has shut down nothing, has seen a huge jump in housing prices. My wife and I were looking to upgrade and buy a larger house this summer, but housing prices went up 10% in a single summer, with 2/3s of the buyers being from California or New England. I could go on with more examples, but to me its pretty clear Trump will win. I personally would prefer if no one won this election and we could just live our lives in peace.
The election is effectively over and I don't believe it will shake out the way you think. My vote went to Howie in a symbolic call for a 3rd party because this is not a Democracy - it's a Distraction.
www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state
Who is Howie?
f*ck this false equivalence man. Seriously, there is no argument.
RE: Utah - I'm talking about the surge right now. Most cases ever reported there. Going in the wrong direction. Most states besides Hawaii are.
coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts
The problem is most people only see one election, not the series of elections over time.
What would happen if Biden loses, and its because the younger, anti-corruption demographic didn't show up? The Party Elders, in their smoke-filled secret rooms, would have to start pushing and rigging candidates like Tulsi Gabbard, that Globachar woman, or another person whos life isn't a trail of wickedness and corruption. Over time, standing true to your principles will get a better outcome than continual compromise.
And I think the youngsters and anti-DT faction will show up, look at the votes already cast by mail. People can see what this guy represents, even if 30-40% love the fact that he grants them a licence to show their true sordid colours. That's the only thing he has actually delivered for people. A licence to hate. It's as simple as that. Any vote against Biden is a vote for Trump and against human decency, whatever Biden is. Biden was the right weapon for this particular job. I'd have had Warren every day of the week, but the US still has too much of a taste for misogyny and crumbling old men.
Warren lied about her race for financial gain. Thats why she lost, not "misogyny"
Cases does not equal mortality. Most "cases" are positive tests where the patient isn't even aware they have the virus and are asymptomatic. The fact remains that people choose to break quarantine laws, and move to states that are more relaxed in their shutdowns. Whether they are right or not remains to be seen, but I see this as an instrumental variable when trying to predict their voting behavior.
@jclnv: I have 2 nationalities and see women as a major part of the solution (testosterone is a dirty drug), so your question couldn't seem weirder to me.
For you to point at Kamala-f*cking-Harris and yell about the sky falling with Trump and his sycophant Pence in office, helping him along the way - it's just beyond parody. Go back in your hole and wait for the adults to finish deciding the election.
He has not manipulated the Justice department. Obama weaponized the Justice Department, IRS, FDIC, and other Federal agencies against conservative individuals and organizations. Was straight up evil, but the world didn't end.
The USA pays for 29% of the UNs budget, and the UN just voted China onto the Human Rights council. Few countries are meeting their obligations to NATO, of which 22% is USA funded. If you have old friends, but lately they've been using you, abusive to you, etc, telling them to shape up or ship out is the way to go.
The nazi-eque child separation policies happened under Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton. Reagan actually did blanket amnesty twice.
Calling me a child and implying you are an adult shows how weak your arguments are. This is an election in MY country, not yours. I am not an expert in Canadian politics, but US Presidential politics is something I spend a great deal of time focusing on. I have a degree in Economics, and that is the primary filter I use to try and analyze elections.
I do not support Trump. I won't be voting for him. That doesn't change that, based on what I've read and seen, I predict Trump will win.
I think many people see them all as corrupt megalomaniacs (I know I do) but they see the brash, doesn’t give a f*ck attitude of Trump, to be somewhat refreshing. Especially after the previous charismatic, articulate, president who ran out of bombs to drop in the Middle East, and bailed out the banks with public money and caused the rampant corporation buy-backs that are soon going to lead to the largest economic bubble pop/stagflation in history.
- Twitter banned the story because it had personal phone numbers and emails visible in the article, which is against their terms of service. They later unbanned sharing of the article (you can find it now via twitter links)
- Read the ENTIRE wiki entry for the "IRS targeting controversy" and then get back to me. Conversely, Trump has literally been using the justice department as his own personal attack dog.
- The US may pay more than its share for NATO, but any analyst will tell you that you've happily done that in the past because the global strategic pay-off for keeping Russia and China in check has been more than worth it. You've thrown that completely out the window.
" If you have old friends, but lately they've been using you, abusive to you, etc, telling them to shape up or ship out is the way to go." This shows a basic lack of understanding of geopolitical strategy and diplomacy.
Now, explain why the US has attacked Canadian trade agreements and arbitrarily added tariffs to products, when even US industry was telling him not to, and that it would hurt their bottom line? Explain why Trump has been heaping praise on the leaders of North Korea, Russia, Turkey, etc, even as they've continued to attack US interests and commit horrible human rights abuses?
- The child separation policies DID NOT start before Trump. Unaccompanied minors were held for up to two weeks under Obama, and this may have also been the case before Obama. Ripping children away from their parents at the border - that started with Trump and Stephen Miller. This is not up for a debate. There are direct quotes from people involved with the policy and its inception in the White House. Read something from outside of the conservative media bubble.
- My partner is American, and her parents and relatives - whom I care a great deal about - still live in the midwest. I care a great deal about the outcome.
Every bit of your talking points point towards you getting 90% of your information from conservative facebook/youtube/right wing websites/foxnews. Those are not legitimate sources of information.
It's so tiring see so many people with missing/wrong/incomplete information.
Trump hasn't directly started wars (which is good!), but he's provided support for Saudi Arabia while they brutalize Yemen. He straight up betrayed our Kurdish allies in Turkey and Syria, leading to large scale slaughters, resulting in increased footholds in those regions for the US's geopolitical rivals. He is currently bungling the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, which is looking like it will lead to a complete reversal and erasure of any good done in the region. Basically every life lost there and all the money spent will have been for nothing.
Obama followed advice from the best economists in the country by giving the banks a bailout. I don't know that I agree with him after the fact, but it's hard for me to say that a leader should do anything but follow the best advice from the experts. The result was he turned the country around from one of the worst financial crises in the history of the country. He had economic growth for the rest of his presidency after that point.
Trump, on the other hand, gave a multi-trillion dollar tax cut to the super rich and the largest corporations, AGAINST the advice of top economists, resulting in those same kinds of rampant corporate buy-backs that you accused Obama of.
It's shocking to me how so many people find Trump's 'straight talking' - where he just lies his ass off constantly, and talks bullshit about things he knows nothing about - is refreshing to people. He's a garden variety con man. He's your buddy, bullshit-Dan, who you know is always full of shit, but will continually try to convince you otherwise. Why is everyone so gullible when it comes to that orange doofus?
However, all these straw man attacks against him in other areas and complete blindness to Obamas administration (and therefore Biden) almost makes me want to vote for trump.
"Two decades of bombing Afghanistan hasn't worked, so we should continue bombing Afghanistan."
"Obama listened to the top Economic advisors" False. They were not the "top economic advisors." I was working on my economics degree in 2008-20011, and many of my professors, along with hundreds of other economists, signed a letter against the Bank bailouts. One of my professors was on the board of economic advisors at the time.
The Trump tax returns were (allegedly) Trumps personal tax returns. Thats contains more sensitive information than any phone number.
The wikipedia article reads much like the Russia collusion article: trying to hard to push a narrative, but ultimately if you remove the narrative and look at the sources, is clear the available evidence supports a different conclusion.
You say I get 90% of my news from Conservative sources- false. I wade through the cesspool of Liberal news sources, subreddits, imgur, and other social media to try and understand the Liberal mindset, and how they can be so incredibly self-deluded and out of touch with reality. I also spend time in Alt-Right White Nationalist swamps to try and understand how they can see something, correctly understand what actually happened, but then conclude the solution always involves racism. I read libertarian blogs, Agorist websites, Hoppean facebook pages to make sure I'm being exposed to other ideas.
Tell me, when was the last time you spent any time listening to someone you disagree with?
""Obama listened to the top Economic advisors" False. They were not the "top economic advisors." I was working on my economics degree in 2008-20011, and many of my professors, along with hundreds of other economists, signed a letter against the Bank bailouts. One of my professors was on the board of economic advisors at the time."
I'll give you that. There were lots of prominent economists that disagreed with the bailout. But there were also economists that helped him/congress craft the legislation, so who's to say who was right. The economy got stronger and job growth continued. I, personally, wouldn't have bailed out the banks, but it's hard to argue that it was a disastrous decision when it demonstrably wasn't.
"The Trump tax returns were (allegedly) Trumps personal tax returns. Thats contains more sensitive information than any phone number."
The tax returns written about by the NYTimes were not published in full. The main concerning information being phone numbers and email addresses, which are against Twitter's TOS to publish. Stop trying to fight this point. It's ridiculous.
"The wikipedia article reads much like the Russia collusion article: trying to hard to push a narrative, but ultimately if you remove the narrative and look at the sources, is clear the available evidence supports a different conclusion."
I just can't understand how your mind works. You can read the investigative articles quoted in those wiki pages and they'll point to the same conclusion. But you go and interpret it the way you want, I guess.
"You say I get 90% of my news from Conservative sources- false. I wade through the cesspool of Liberal news sources, subreddits, imgur, and other social media to try and understand the Liberal mindset, and how they can be so incredibly self-deluded and out of touch with reality. I also spend time in Alt-Right White Nationalist swamps to try and understand how they can see something, correctly understand what actually happened, but then conclude the solution always involves racism. I read libertarian blogs, Agorist websites, Hoppean facebook pages to make sure I'm being exposed to other ideas."
Ah, libertarianism. I should have known. The favourite ideology of a subset of young, educated, American white males. You can justify fighting taxation, social programs, regulatory systems, etc, without overtly supporting regressive social programs. Never mind issues of systemic racism and other socio economic factors that will always limit economic mobility without some kind of intervention - Or monopolies/duopolies that would exploit their market positions to negate any of the positives of a freemarket system.
But yeah, you're still a conservative with conservative ideas and you intake a lot of conservative media. Shrug. Given your talking points, I'm not surprised.
If you're looking for news, I think it's important to stick to publications with a good track record for journalistic integrity.
In any case, this is the last place where I expected to find censorship
Not always. Some really get deleted.
Man, you're so close to having self-awareness. Are YOU sure you haven't been lied to?
The great reset...
By the way, do you have any good resources for becoming experts in Bigfoot, Flat Earth, Chemtrails, and Microchipped Vaccines? I bet you've done some super duper research on those too.
If you can’t see that this virus and the continuation of social control is being used, as was the war on terror post 911, to push for a form of quasi institutional governance - monetary systems (cashless society/social credit), and multi-trillion $ green energy push etc your a pathetic excuse of a human.
Build back better... The great reset...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/covid-death-rate-flu-debunk-1.5615872
The scientists and epidemiologists have been horribly wrong through this entire thing. Almost nothing they have predicted has come to pass. That is not to say their work is unimportant or that they won't be the ones to come up with a vaccine or cure but this blind worshipping of people who are scientists and demonising anyone who questions them is very unhealthy for our society. A reasoned person with good common sense makes a better leader than an "expert" in any one area because no matter how much knowledge you know there is always going to be vastly more information that you don't understand. They know absolutely nothing about policy decisions or the impact their recommendations will have on the broader society.
People are losing the ability to think for themselves or question things. And yes...many, if not most, anti maskers and paranoiacs are morons before anyone gets into too much of a hissy fit. There are idiots on all sides but all that seems to be happening is everyone picking a side and shouting abuse at the "enemy". Open discussion needs to be possible.
1) Models try to predict the effects of a brand new disease suggest 150,000 people may die given initial data on how contagious it is and fatality rate.
2) Countries lock down to try to prevent spread, and encourage people to wear masks, social distance, etc.
3) Countries don't hit predicted death numbers
4) People shout about how the scientists were wrong / lied to everyone.
Do you see how that doesn't make sense?
Wearing masks is not at all unproven. Don't cherry pick the one source that confirms what you want to hear. Very little in science has 100% agreement.
"A reasoned person with good common sense makes a better leader than an "expert" in any one area because no matter how much knowledge you know there is always going to be vastly more information that you don't understand. They know absolutely nothing about policy decisions or the impact their recommendations will have on the broader society."
This is a hilariously stupid statement. The implications that 1) medical experts cannot fathom public health policy, 2) experts in any field aren't reasoned people with common sense, 3)because experts can't know anything, their knowledge is worthless, 4) only people with no knowledge of public policy or medicine can make good decisions here, are absurd.
You're right that experts don't know everything, but to go from that idea to experts' knowledge is worthless because it's incomplete or imperfect is irresponsible and illogical. It's a ridiculous leap.
Ask yourself this: are people really demonized for asking questions and being skeptical, or are they, as you are being right now, mocked for saying really really really stupid things that demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge and critical thinking ability?
People latch on to these ideas because it makes them feel smarter than everyone else, like only they can connect the dots, and everyone else are just sheep. Sadly that's rarely the case that they (you) are quite that unique and smart and special.
I'm going to quote my own post here: "That is not to say their work is unimportant or that they won't be the ones to come up with a vaccine or cure but this blind worshipping of people who are scientists and demonising anyone who questions them is very unhealthy for our society."
When you can't respond to what was actually written it makes all the rest of your reply pretty worthless. Please explain how that statement correlates with your bollocks statement that I think expert opinions is worthless. That's the only ridiculous leap here.
And yes, I do think experts in epidemiology are seriously limited in their ability to look at the bigger picture. There is a reason they are so good at looking into things in such depth. It's a totally different skillet. Let me ask you a question, do you really think inventors and engineers who come up with the products that are the basis of many companies are unable to run large companies with the goal of maximising shareholder profit? Well, the reality shows that those type of people are usually absolutely useless at running a business. Personality types are suited to skills and from what I have seen people who have an extreme level of in depth knowledge on very specific areas are very limited when it comes to considering broad based policy decisions. Our health service has carried out 34,000 breast cancer screenings in the year to date. In a normal year 85,000 would have been carried out to date. That's 51,000 screenings which have not happened. I have no idea what the positive rate is but let's say its 0.5%. That is 255 women who are most likely much younger than the average Covid victim walking around undiagnosed. And then you can multiply that by all of the screening programs that are not happening right now, not to mention other diseases. I also literally just read of a 30% increase in people seeking emergency mental health treatment this year (and its not even available when they do seek it because of restrictions.)
So yeah... I do think the broader picture is being missed entirely.
"When you can't respond to what was actually written it makes all the rest of your reply pretty worthless."
There's a good chunk of what I wrote that you chose to ignore too, so...
Did you know that many epidemiologists actually have Master's in Public Health degrees? People literally have degrees and decades of work in exactly this sort of situation. It's not just a bunch of doctors in labs poking their heads out to make bad public policy recommendations. They are literally people with degrees in the big picture. That's actually their job FFS.
But more to your critical reasoning ability. I think we can both agree that broad generalizations and personal anecdotes aren't really solid foundations for an argument. And when you make broad generalizations about entire fields that you have no experience in or make broad generalizations about other fields and then try to apply that to the situation, it's really just hand-wavy. Quoting un-cited data on the effects on the medical system at large doesn't lend any credence to the vague claims that came before.
But if we're just going to toss around assumptions, I'm going to guess that only one of us is sitting next to a person with and MPH in epidemiology right now, and probably only one of us has any idea about how engineering a running business works, since probably only one of us has ever taken master's-level engineer and business courses. In that case, I'm sure that person is suuuuper interested in nonsense opinions of the other person.
Anyway if you read my comment again I said that Influenza is killing more people (meaning currently) in Portugal than C-19, which I highly suspect is the case.
Take Canada for example. Current C-19 mortality stats for Canada to date for this year are 9800. Although who knows what the actual figure is due to the ridiculous false diagnosis that all national health institutions are attributing to C-19 for people with comorbidities. Regardless, the vast majority of those deaths occurred before May, in fact globally there hasn’t been pandemic level excess deaths since May. The latest influenza/pneumonia Canadian data is for 2018 and puts the number at 8500, likely higher now due to population growth. The influenza mortality rate is currently higher than C-19 in all countries I’ve looked at data for, even in the lockdown insanity of the UK. In fact most countries are below their five year average.
All you have to do if you are genuinely still buying the institutional narrative is why Sweden under their 5 year death average? Why didn’t everyone on-board the Diamond Princess die of C-19? These are real world examples that prove the modelling to be largely junk.
BTW if you think there is one scientific opinion on this you’re confused. Some of the worlds best virologists and Epidemiologists have been calling the models junk and governmental responses useless since March. You just didn’t hear about it on institutional media. What a surprise...
Anyway I’ve gotta get back to convincing myself how Epstein strangled himself, how those security guides fell asleep, and how the camera recordings went missing etc and other BS you sheep believe.
www.weforum.org/great-reset
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