Big news in France. Florian Carvalho (3:33, 13:27, 27:55, 1:01, 2:10) has covid

I even argue that the title is an overkill. How is it "big news" OP?

+1 I wish most world country government thought the same way that you do, that is to say that COVID-19 is becoming endemic and not a serious health issue for most people but despite this most world countries governments are taking drastic measures now against the omicron variant and in France it’s no different with the news 24/7 dramatizing the situation and instilling fear in the general populace. New restrictive measures are taking place in France as we speak.

No end in sight to this “overkill situation” (excessive control of populations and fear mongering by governments in place) and we are no better off in France right now two years down the road than we were two years ago.

What I find ironic is that the more southern countries and Latin countries, which you would have thought would be more “relaxed” because of the situation like this, are in fact much more severe in their treatment of their populations compared with Northern European countries who give much more autonomy in general to their populations, with regard to COVID-19 protocols. In Sweden for example, home to our favorite coach JS, life continues almost normally and the impact of COVID-19 and the restrictions in place are almost nonexistent.

In some Asian countries it’s even worse and I have a friend in the Philippines who over 60 years old, and former renown swimming coach, who has basically been forced to stay home for the past two years and he’s not even allowed to travel. He’s essentially a prisoner in his own home in the Philippines. Life is grim for him especially in a country like the Philippines where people love to communicate with their neighbors and friends on a permanent basis. COVID-19 protocols have wreaked havoc for many many people and nobody’s talking about this situation openly. In the west a significant number of suicides go unreported.

Kevin Durant has tested positive for COVID like 5 different times. It’s a joke.

And you, as anyone else, would be terribly mistaking...In fact, there is a number of high calibre marathon runners in Europe who have had issues long after they had beaten COVID already...

fab_maro wrote:

And you, as anyone else, would be terribly mistaking...In fact, there is a number of high calibre marathon runners in Europe who have had issues long after they had beaten COVID already...

This is interesting so could you provide more references or sources for your statement?

wejo wrote:

I thought he died from the original headline ‘covid victim’ so I changed the headline .

What a silly thing to think. Nobody dies of covid

Actually, having this isn't a newsworthy story, much less the wording of the headline. Someone getting Covid, esp. if they're not hospitalized, is along the importance of "runner gets the flu". The mass media is sensationalizing all these Covid cases which are no worse than the flu.

Samurai_Runner wrote:

Actually, having this isn't a newsworthy story, much less the wording of the headline. Someone getting Covid, esp. if they're not hospitalized, is along the importance of "runner gets the flu". The mass media is sensationalizing all these Covid cases which are no worse than the flu.

In France it made quite big news because of course it affected an iconic runner, Florian Carvalho, who is very popular in France, especially in the Paris region, but you’re right on a big scale it is not really of much importance especially to Americans and possibly other nations.

You are also correct the COVID-19 for most healthy people is not really a big issue and that the media dramatizes this pandemic 24/7 on a far too large scale.