2020 BNP Paribas Open...ATP 1000...Indian Wells, CA USA

[stotty]

Germany are doing well. They have the best funded health care system in the world. They have 5 times as many ICUs as the UK and they manufacture all the ventilators. Better funding looks like it is paying off as they seem to lead the league table for the fewest deaths per number infected, so far.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

America are right way they don't want to be...top of the league table for number of infections.

Boris Johnson has just tested positive.

The wonder what the BIG 3 are doing and whether they are still training and practicing somehow while in isolation.

[gzhpcu]

Thanks, am staying home, except for shortbwalks where they are no people

[don_budge]

Lugano is locked down. Looks like a ghost town.

Very sorry to hear that my Friend. Here is something from a Swiss doctor. Stay safe Brother.

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

[don_budge]

Fear Mongering...Fake News? Who to Believe?

https://www.indexmundi.com/blog/index.php/2018/03/05/how-many-people-die-a-day-in-the-us/

On average 7,452 people die very day in the United States of America.

[don_budge]

Fear Mongering...Fake News? Who to Believe?

https://www.quora.com/How-many-peopl...York-every-day

In 2015...on average...421 people died every day in New York City.

[don_budge]

Fear Mongering...Fake News? Who to Believe?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/12-experts-question-covid-19-panic

[don_budge]

Fear Mongering...Fake News? Who to Believe?

https://prepforthat.com/fear-mongeri...-he-was-wrong/

[don_budge]

SLEEP...Fatigue is a great friend of Fear

Sleep well my Friends...what is a good nights sleep worth to you in times of stress and uncertainty? Answer...PRICELESS!!!

This recipe for a brew that will have you sleeping like a baby:

Cleansing tea:
1 Tbsp grated FRESH ginger root
1 tbsp maple syrup or honey
Dash of cayenne pepper
Juice of one lemon
Steep in cup of hot water for 5” and drink 1-4 cups/day

Courtesy of my Big Sister. Nurse Nightingale at heart.❤️

After a week of drinking this brew you will long for bedtime. Return to a deep and fulfilling sleep after nature calls. Speaking for myself...of course! This recipe for a brew that will have you sleeping like a baby...not to mention medicinal assets with respiratory infections. Or...correct me if I'm wrong! Nobody's perfect...not even don_budge! I remember when I made a mistake...once.

[stroke]

My mother in law is in an assisted living facility very close to our home and it has been on lock down for nearly 2 weeks, no visitors period. It is just not good.

[gzhpcu]

Lugano is locked down. Looks like a ghost town.

[stotty]

I saw on the news this morning that America should brace itself for a wave of infections that could overwhelm the health service. Yet Trump wants to open for business by Easter Sunday. Scientists here think this is way off the mark as it's likely Easter Sunday could be the peak of the epidemic. America, they think, could soon become the epicentre for the epidemic.

China, whose fault it was anyway in ignoring and covering up the outbreak in the first place, will end up looking like the good guys in all this by manufacturing and giving away equipment to fight the virus. Their diplomatic department seem to be working overtime on China's image to the outside world.

Putin is also looking saintly by send medics to Europe to assist their overrun health care services. Whatever next!

America's policy of retreating back from world affairs is allowing China and Russia to look caring!

It looks like Bolsonaro wants the virus to rip through the Brazil's favelas and have a mass clear out. What a nutcase he is.

In the UK we are on lockdown. The numbers of deaths are predicted to increase but haven't really taken off yet. Some countries are managing things better than others (German in particular) and it would be good to know why that is.

The Washington Post have an interesting interactive page showing how the virus spreads and how different distancing measures can slow it down:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/?itid=hp_hp-bignews6_virus-resource-box-v3%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

[stotty]

This is terrible stuff going on now Stotty. Certainly hope we can see a finish line soon.

It's a weird one, stroke. This virus could end up killing far fewer people than other diseases but the trouble is it kills them all at once and will overwhelm just about any country's health service. No health service in the world can cope with the potential influx of patients in one go, which is why every country has had to take lockdown measures.

I cannot believe we are living through this. My mother is 87 and lives in Maine all alone. I am terribly worried about her. The good thing is she lives in the sticks and hasn't gone out for a couple of weeks. If she sticks by that regime, she should be okay.

[stroke]

This is terrible stuff going on now Stotty. Certainly hope we can see a finish line soon.

[stotty]

It's full lockdown here in the UK as of today. Every evening we get the death tally. I am now out of work until this is over.

[don_budge]

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can."

JULIUS CAESAR