Samuli

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• Ultracycling

  in Rides & Races • 1 week, 2 days

  

  ITI has been cancelled in the middle of the race.

  Safety Investigation

  As the result of a large storm surge in the Norton Sound that
  disrupted the sea ice and created flooding, combined with the closure
  of most villages to outsiders due to COVID-19 concerns, all athletes
  have been personally contacted and asked to shelter in place once they
  reach a checkpoint.

  The ITI team has been actively examining the safety of further travel
  and will release further details as the investigation unfolds.

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  Storm Surge Impacts Trail Between Shaktoolik And Koyuk

  Today’s investigation revealed that last night’s winter storm caused
  water levels to surge 3 to 6 feet above the normal high tide line in
  the Norton Sound, depending on location. Those surges created cracks
  in the sea ice, pushed water on top of the ice through those cracks
  and broke shorefast ice loose on the coast. As a result, all routes
  over the Norton Bay from Shaktoolik to Koyuk are impassable due to
  open water or overflow and no consistent overland trails between the
  villages have been created this winter.

  Toni Lund and Jussi Karjalainen, who were both brought back to
  Shaktoolik last night by search and rescue personnel, were flown to
  Unalakleet this afternoon to await flights back to Anchorage with the
  other six athletes who have not yet crossed Norton Bay - George Adams,
  Graham Muir, Roberto Gazzoli, Willy Mulonia, Asbjørn Bruun and Beat
  Jegerlehner.

  https://www.iditarodtrailinvitational.co­m/news

  https://www.iditarodtrailinvitational.co­m/tracking

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 1 week, 2 days

  

  I'm the city official managing/coordinating it.

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Yes it's been opened in the beginning of April since 2018, instead of May, and now it's only just over a week earlier than that.

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Thanks, yes I'm that Samuli, one of the people to make that happen. The idea was coming from every direction, even THL and then deputy mayor, which made it easier.

  The recommendation from THL's Markku Tervahauta was in his twitter, and then that was in Helsingin sanomat along with some other instructions.

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 1 week, 3 days

  

  https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/03/12/b­oom-new-citi-bike-stats-show-cycling-sur­ge-is-real-but-mayor-is-not-acting/

  https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/the-safest­-ways-to-travel-amid-the-coronavirus-out­break-according-to-experts/

  https://nypost.com/2020/03/13/citi-bike-­struggling-to-keep-up-with-coronavirus-r­idership-spike/

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Here in Finland, the head of the National Institute for Health and Welfare said it would be preferable to walk or ride a bike for transport when possible.

  The public bike share isn't in use during the winter in Helsinki, but season will be opened just a bit earlier to give an option to using other public transport, starting on Monday instead of April.

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 1 week, 3 days

  

  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/­bike-blog/2020/mar/20/why-not-encourage-­cycling-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown?­CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0hP1bSqbW1AF­eQ_efPRYV-LlZ6IfdlLVlWkQRnmhcm0Lc08WtCDz­k79nQ

  Earlier this week, a group of nearly 50 academics and experts on
  public health and transport wrote an open letter to the government,
  urging ministers to not discourage walking and cycling amid the
  pandemic, noting their vital importance in the wider public health
  issue of combating inactivity.

  Link to the letter

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 2 weeks, 1 day

  

  Yeah the situation in the Helsinki region/south and the rest of Finland will probably be quite different. Easy to isolate yourself if there's no-one around. So we'll just do what the Swedish do.

  Pasta, bread and soap was gone too, until tomorrow.

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 2 weeks, 2 days

  

  Sweden's approach doesn't seem to be too far from Britain's. Some social distancing measures like banning big events, but schools mostly open and not even trying to test every suspect anymore but trying to slow it spreading. Finland is on the same path, but a bit behind, schools and everything mostly open, working from home and other social distancing adviced, big events banned, toilet paper sold out.

• Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in COVID-19 • 2 weeks, 3 days

  

  Yeah that's what I meant, as dicki mentioned the long term resistance that might help with future coronaviruses. The next virus is different again, so no.

  The fatality rate is probably also due to so many people having it at once, so if it passes through the population slower, as some have visioned, it might not be so high. But I know so little about this that if others have more insight, I'll stop now.