Covid strikes again. World's most prestigious 15k - NN Zevenheuvelenloop Seven Hills Run - CANCELLED due to Covid-19

RunningFromTime wrote:

As an example, one of my co-workers got an email saying their non-vaxed kid can't participate in skiing. What activity could possible be lower risk than skiing??

I'm all for ending restrictions now, especially for the vaccinated but ski resorts were one of the original super-spreaders of the virus. It's not the skiing that is the problem, its the hanging in the lodge with a runny nose from the cold afterwards.

GrapeSon wrote:

coach wrote:

What's wrong with these democrat sheep

You know that this is in the Netherlands right? Jesus, I wouldn't want someone who speaks straight from the gut like you as a coach. Use that brain of yours.

I wasn't serious.

AXC wrote:

RunningFromTime wrote:

As an example, one of my co-workers got an email saying their non-vaxed kid can't participate in skiing. What activity could possible be lower risk than skiing??

I'm all for ending restrictions now, especially for the vaccinated but ski resorts were one of the original super-spreaders of the virus. It's not the skiing that is the problem, its the hanging in the lodge with a runny nose from the cold afterwards.

This is my point - a super spreader event was a concern 3 years ago. Now the kids have their first shot and the parents are vaccinated - completely different situation. What more can they do? When will this end? If some unvaxed population fills up rural hospitals and die because kids with the sniffles passed around their germs as they have for millenia, i simply don't care. I won't lose a minute of sleep over it. The prevention is widely available and free. Society need to accept the basal level of risk and stop this nonsense (old folks bed ridden with only one fuctioning organ and immunocompromised have to be the same level of cautious as they always were).

What - joshua cheptegei is going to pricipitate the next mass extinction running outside in the netherlands? Give me a break

The Netherlands now have the greatest increase in cases since the pandemic began

not a duck wrote:

Ruttenietmeer wrote:

Not great for the Dutch to be seen to be doing this.

What are you suddenly canceling your Netherlands vacation trip? Is the Netherlands GDP going to fall because they cancel this race? They don’t GAF about what some silly American thinks

Well actually on that note I was meant to be in Netherlands this week for investment purposes to decide if we wanted to invest in a Dutch company.

We cancelled the trip a couple of weeks ago when the Dutch lockdown policies were changed and we were no longer allowed to visit the company due to the new restrictions on visiting companies

So all of these are small in grander scheme of things but take a few thousand cancelled trips like that and it does add up ....

Side note is I had actually entered the race for something to do on the weekend while I was there so bittersweet to see it cancelled as I personally had obviously already known I wasn't going to be racing

I've been waiting for Rotterdam to open registration for the April 2022 race. This could be an explanation to why it has not opened yet. Hoping that this doesn't continue, but doesn't look good for Americans trying to travel over there anytime soon.

RunningFromTime wrote:

This is my point - a super spreader event was a concern 3 years ago.

"3 years ago" it was fall 2018 and COVID DID NOT EXIST, you babbling ideologue.

Wow, the American right wing is really driven by facts!