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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby iriejohn » Sat Jan 02, 2021 6:29 pm

windsuks wrote:
Sat Jan 02, 2021 1:57 pm
Yup not really surprising really, no one should be travelling especially to SA where they are experiencing their second wave of the global pandemic :( https://www.iksurfmag.com/features/post ... -air-2021/
To be honest, one of the last places I want to be is in an airport with lots of other people in an enclosed space, then in an aeroplane microclimate for several/many hours, then after arrival in another airport again with lots of other people in an enclosed space.

Then repeat coming back.

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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby Hugh2 » Sat Jan 02, 2021 9:37 pm

Sad, but the right thing to do. Much sadder is all the people who will die as a result of this second surge. South Africans don't even have the possibility of a vaccine any time soon.
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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby a99 » Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:07 am

Politicians finnaly much say true- that this is china made and spread soft bioweapon to all world. You can look to China covid cases which are from feburary quite as zero, and can look to all other countries around the world and you will see very big differences. Even such highest hygiene country as Japan suffering very big covid cases. This is not possible to explain why iChina didn’t had any spice of cases during all year (after 2020 January).

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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby Hugh2 » Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:05 am

You have drunk the coolaid, a99. China has had a series of subsequent outbreaks and have three ongoing, but have managed to squash each of them, so far. The new variant might change that though.

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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby Toby » Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:33 am

Good for Liam, since he can recover longer now .
And maybe Jesse will be back as well?
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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby nothing2seehere » Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:48 am

Toby wrote:
Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:33 am
Good for Liam, since he can recover longer now .
And maybe Jesse will be back as well?
That's what I was thinking (plus I think Lasse isn't fully healed yet either). I just hope that none of the other riders pick up injuries for next time.
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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby Baptiste_FR » Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:00 pm

nothing2seehere wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:48 am
Toby wrote:
Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:33 am
Good for Liam, since he can recover longer now .
And maybe Jesse will be back as well?
That's what I was thinking (plus I think Lasse isn't fully healed yet either). I just hope that none of the other riders pick up injuries for next time.
I wonder what will be the situation for Jesse. He was announced out of the KOTA and Lewis Crathern was officially taking his spot. I understand that Jesse has the time to recover, but it will be hard/strange and maybe unfair for Lewis.
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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby Hugh2 » Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:08 pm

I'm surprised they even are proposing to hold it in November/December, and then again in January/February? Does not make sense. Just cancel the 2021 event and go to 2022, like the vast a majority of other large events like this during the pandemic.

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Re: 2021: King of the Air predictions

Postby Toby » Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:45 pm

Hugh2 wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:08 pm
I'm surprised they even are proposing to hold it in November/December, and then again in January/February? Does not make sense. Just cancel the 2021 event and go to 2022, like the vast a majority of other large events like this during the pandemic.

I rather see 2 events than 1.
These kind of riders don't have much events to go to and expose their riding, don't take away even more.
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