It is the other way, far far away are still not in the really bad situation or have planes delivering. EU got so affected that individual countries decide who accepts deliveries coming from abroad and who doesn't, trains and planes don't deliver. I will check again on Monday.

Not a joke from Sweden but primarily results from a random sampling in Geneva. From 760 person tested, around 5.5% had antibodies. Upscaled to the whole population this is approx 3.3 to 7.7%. Children and adults have approximately the same rate. The study is still ongoing as they do know how long it takes from the infection to form for antibodies.

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/diese-s...t-899172044982
(Sorry I cannot find the original source, otherwise I would have linked to it)

Canton Geneva COVID Situation Report. April 22: 4726 cases, 213 dead. Population is approx 500k.
https://www.ge.ch/document/covid-19-...ve/telecharger

Now some lounge chair predictions: Given the current preliminary Geneva data it is 1 out 8 case which is detected. If we adjust for mortality we can increase this factor by 3 for Sweden, which means 1 out of 24 is detected. Let us assume Sweden is just in the onset and has only seen half of the death. That brings us up to 1 out 50.

I would not call those numbers good but rather worrisome as there can be potentially a huge number of active cases in the near future which will need hospital care.

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What?

UK no longer has national airline, BA would have gone bankrupt as pension deficit exceeded its market value. Luckily some mugs bought it.

There is no reason why isolated communities should have subsidised rail or air travel, they knew it was isolated when they went there.

They may have been born there.

As for BA, it deserved to go bankrupt years ago. Now it's just an embarrassment.

Changing world!
Source

Not sure if this makes Trump correct or not; whatever, China is becoming a major world force happily filling the gap the US is creating.

Honni soit qui mal y pense...

Then they can leave to never return, no need for a subsidised regular service.

Another opinion is that we should protect more isolated communities with their own cultures,customs, dialects and so on.

I bet that here in Switzerland, there are quite a few bus services that don't actually make any money but provide a transport link for some communities and maintain the totally integrated transport solution.

Plenty of bus services in the UK that lose money, Switzerland has higher subsidises than in the UK. As I said before I don't approve of subsidies.

If anyone is interested, The Atlantic is offering all of its Covid-19 articles for free right now, no need to register or anything. They've had some very interesting pieces lately.

https://www.theatlantic.com/category...w-coronavirus/

This one is particularly interesting:
Why some people get sicker than others

That is because you do not appreciate that ownership is a human construct. Everyone is gets a subsidy, directly or indirectly, including you

That is because you do not appreciate that ownership is a human construct. Everyone is gets a subsidy, directly or indirectly, including you

It's not possible for everyone to get subsidy, just think about what you wrote for moment, the money has to come from somewhere.

Exactly

this is an english forum!

Stock markets on Thursday closed relatively flat, erasing gains made in early trading after reports surfaced that the results of a study on Gilead Sciences drug remdesivir found it did not improve recovery or lower fatality rates for COVID-19 patients.

Have a look at the coat of arms of the United Kingdom.

Wouldn't help omtatsat much; firstly, you can't read the motto on the coat of arms (most of it is obscured by those well known British animals, the lion and the unicorn), and secondly, it's still in French.

Does it mean " we are a bunch of wankers"?

Article on it here

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52406261