Robert S

While Avenue 5 is a pretty good show I am not sure if a show about people getting stuck in a (relatively) tight space for the foreseeable future is what I need right now to relax and forget the rest of the world. I am almost glad that yesterday's show was the season finale.

Do that, as long as you still can. All over Europe, it usually went the same way: The first sanctions were to forbid public gatherings above 500 people, then came closing of schools, afterwards closing of non-essential shops, restaurants, cinemas etc. And then finally (well, finally so far) came some lax forms of curfew (right now, there are five reasons to leave the house over here, (1) to go to / return from work, (2) to go grocery shopping, (3) to help others, (4) if your house is on fire (yes, they added that to the decree) and (5) to go for short walks (and that only either alone or with the people you are actively living together). In Italy, as people don't adhere to that rules, they are now talking about introducing a strict curfew (probably kicking out (5) and probably further restrict (1) and (2)). Oh yes, it does not help that the weather outside is as good as it can be, sunny, 18 deg C (65 deg F), flowers blooming everywhere etc.

Nobody said we couldn't have a bit of fun on the expanse of stupid people right now. So I got the information that two of the twelve people in my group at work are in quarantine right now, one was skiing in a resort a week ago, that in the meantime has been declared a red zone and the other ten days ago had contact to someone who eventually tested positive. One sixth! The Austrian government already introduced a curfew yesterday and decided to close any non-essential shops, but I am sure this will get stricter over the next couple of days.

So apartment wrestling it is?

See the positive side: at least your allergies and possible Corona-restrictions coincide time-wise. For me, my hayfever will start when I suspect Corona to wind down. Oh and by the way, sneezing, a running nose or whatever is not a typical Cov-19 sign (compared to a "common" flu).

The whole show was "just get this over with and go home", including post-production (they did not try at all to hide the cuts).

Sure, but where is the money in running an empty arena show (compared to re-running archived stuff)?

Judging by the sign behind her and her hair colour, I would guess Sasha Banks.

The could play Fire Pro.

Okay, I thought that was only bizarre for Europeans like me.

Putting such decisions on companies is wrong anyway. For one, you cannot expect companies to have medical, epidemical or whatever experts and two, companies have a tendency to do what is good for them (or for the stock prize) and less what is right for the common good.

I was quite shocked when I read yesterday that Merkel was using that number as she might be one of the last persons to use inflated numbers or similar that might cause panic among the population. Especially as here there is nothing to gain except trying to tell the citizens that this is really serious. Though I should mention that this number usually is used to indicate how many people will get infected within the next 2-3 years, not within the current epidemic (or pandemic, like the WHO now offically calls it).

My sister is living in Italy in one of the red zones and believe me, malls were already empty 2.5 weeks ago (my brother-in-law sent me some pictures that looked zombie-apocalypse-level). In Italy alone, there were 196 deaths today (well, the last 24 hours) even though they started shutting down public life two weeks ago. It might be that media has a tendency to cry wolf (as this is how they get viewers, clicks etc.), but sometimes they are still right.

I am not worried about my own health, but I have lots of family and friends that are above the 70-year mark. For example, my father is 83 and, while general being in good health, is very prone to illnesses that effect the respiratory system.

I have read a report that in Italy, they have a mortality rate of 5-6 %, in France and Spain about 3 %, Germany 0.2 % (or something like that). The problem is that different countries use different measures at what to count as COV-19 related deaths. Furthermore, in Italy they have begun testing every dead person for Corona. But the big issue (risk) with COV-19 is not the mortality rate itself, but the way that most of the people who get infected get barely any symptoms, i.e. they may wildly distribute the virus without ever knowing about it. There have been experts stating that without deeper precautions (like done in Europe all over the place right now), a spread from 25%-70% of the population might happen. And just type 7.8 billion * 0.01 (lower boundary of mortality rate) * 0.25 (lower boundary of a pandemic) into a calculator. Sure, the world population grows on average by 80 Million a year, but still.

FCW and OVW specials are nice, but what this world really needs is a special about DSW and what a shit-show that was.

If it's Mania, they would announce at least 70.000, no matter what.

I was more mark than not in 1996 and even I was pissed of about that, especially as it was just a couple of month after Ahmed Johnson bodyslammed Yokozuna, which they played up as a huge deal (he was the only to do so, at least on tv, besides Luger).

I think the general idea (at least that is what I read 2-3 weeks ago) is to delay it until the normal flu season is over so that there are not two similar diseases going around at the same time. Apparently, starting on Sunday, large portions of northern Italy will become almost completely blocked off. My sister is living in one of these provinces and even ten days ago there was already quite some panic going around (she sent me a picture my brother-in-law took, from a mall that looked like post-zombie-apocalypse levels of empty in the middle of the day). School has been closed for two weeks now and will at least be closed for four more weeks (though there are talks that it will last at least until the end of April). As this means that all childcare facilities are closed as well, things get pretty complicated for families will children, where both parents are working (like my sister and my brother-in-law).

Sorry, I missed that, though it should have been obvious.

Egypt and the US have an extradition treaty, so it *could* be true to some degree (as in following the criminal to Egypt and, probably the US embassy, inform the Egyptian police about the wanted man/woman).

According to Alex Shelley, Madagascar Pro has the best wrestling in the world, including stars like Somalia Joe.

Approx. in season 3 (might have been earlier) they really dropped all boundaries, now it's the seven dirty words left and right (for example, the last episode had 10 f-bombs; after googling it that seems to be the limit that they got by Syfy), everybody fucking everybody etc. I assume that early one, they kept close the to books but over time got their own identity which is much more "vulgar".

That's a shame, the writing is still pretty creative and entertaining (even though I assume, if you binge watch older seasons you will find lots of consistency/continuation issues, just look at the Fen character, for example).

I don't know anything about him besides the Last Week Tonight montage from Sunday, but he should have gone the full Howard Beale.