Valve cancels Dota 2 live audience and refunds ticket sales for The International 2021

Quoting: ElectricPrismAgree. Longest 3 weeks of my life. We can thank Wuhan China for that -- after all as I recall, they banned [ Domestic Flights ] but not [ International Flights ].

To be fair, I don't think they anticipated how incompetent most other countries in the world would be in dealing with it.

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Quoting: Guestwhat is happening in Australia show that restrictions doesn't work

Agree. In fact, as I recall, they found 1/3 of the White Tail Deer population were infected with SARS-nCOV-19-Wuhan-Pnumonia -- what this means is -- the kitten has become a cat & cat's out of the bag -- we can't put the cat back into the bag -- meaning, we can't vaccinate our way out of this

We may not, quite, be able to vaccinate our way out of this . . . but certainly in Canada right now, in terms of hospitalization and death it's a pandemic almost entirely of the unvaccinated.
But the idea that restrictions don't work is ludicrous. Various countries have in fact successfully used restrictions to entirely wipe the virus out within their borders, and quickly wipe it out again every time it shows up. Some of these are authoritarian countries such as China, but others are democratic, such as Taiwan, and still others are parliamentary democracies on the British model in the Anglosphere, like New Zealand.
The core methodology that works seems to be
--Draconian but localized restrictions and quarantines wherever an outbreak occurs
--Matched with strong supports to those being restricted, so they don't starve, lose their homes etc. and can generally afford to actually follow the restrictions
--Vigorous contact tracing of everyone found to be infected; quarantines of the contacts
--Keep these draconian restrictions on until all cases die out, which takes a few weeks. Then you can return entirely to normal because there are zero cases!

(My own country has not done this, it's been doing what most of the world does: As much as the authorities can get away with before business starts squalling that it's not making enough money, which means restrictions are never strong enough to wipe the virus out, they just "bend the curve" down, and then get dropped so it can start bending back up again, lather, rinse and repeat. This does not beat the virus. It does lead to far fewer deaths all told than just saying "Oh, to heck with the virus, full speed ahead!" though--and I know this is unfashionable in some circles these days, but I think fewer people dying of disease is better than more people dying of disease)

The Covid zero approach that actually works has not been followed in many countries largely because of resistance from business; ironically, countries that follow it have suffered far less economic damage than either the typical-middle-road countries or the "Oh, just let it spread!" countries like Brazil.

Quoting: ElectricPrism-- the animals are infected & the best strategy would be to help the virus mutate into a weak and pathetic version of itself -- this occurs naturally over time (except the antibody dependent enhancement from the vaccines are making it more lethal {think what would happen to viruses if the whole planet took penicillin for a year straight -- we would make them antibody resistant}).

This is not really the case. Some viruses sometimes have evolutionary pressures that push them towards becoming less deadly. It is not at all clear that Covid and its variant family are among them.
Further, the pressures introduced by vaccines are towards becoming different enough in the right ways for the vaccine not to block them--but that is not the same thing as "more deadly". Similarly, everyone taking penicillin for a year straight would push bacteria (but not viruses) towards being more antibiotic resistant . . . but not towards being more inherently deadly, or more infectious, or antibody resistant. It would be a bad idea, but not because the bacteria would work any better against our immune systems.
Both for viruses and bacteria, it's really not about "stronger" or "weaker" . . . it's more like a skill tree. They level up lots of different traits, and the "bypass a vaccine" trait is distinct from the "spread faster" trait or the "make people cough more" trait or the "trigger a fever" trait. But more than that, everything a microbe does has a cost--you don't find germs that are good at everything, because every trait is a tradeoff--is it worth the energy it takes to make the trait work? If you have too many at once, you get too heavy/expensive to reproduce fast.

Quoting: GuestPlace when I life this year: excess number of deaths is above 100 000 and Covid kill 6 000

That just means that in your country there is a huge under-reporting of covid cases. In every single country where there are great covid reporting the covid cases is very very close to the excess deaths number so if the same would not apply to your country then your country is an extreme outlier, so the most logically conclusion, unless reasonable evidence of the contrary can be produced, is that it's simply under-reporting of covid cases.

Quoting: ElectricPrismHave you seen the data on Sweden? (To be blunt: It looks like your most vulnerable -- obese, diabetic & old probably already were taken out, thus the lower death rates in the present)

Not in the slightest, remember that we have "only" 14.868 deaths out of a population of 11M, we have a lot of more obese, diabetic and old people than that.

There are far too many confounders to say anything regarding country vs country when it comes to covid, perhaps in a decade or so when the scientists have managed to go through all the numbers it's possible to say anything but not today.