Tokyo Olympics ... [no foreign fans] [no fans period]

[TN1965]

Well, EU, just like IOC, is a part of the global elite that forgotten men and women of Japan do not trust.

But even they would appreciate the 100 million doses of vaccine, which EU would not send to Japan if not for the Olympics.

[Atticus]

Poor Atticus....Anyways I just post the latest news....change channels if you don't like it....

What - and miss the next depressing issue of the Doomsday News??!!

[Conor Dary]

I'm sure that will convince the Japanese....


One hospital director in Tokyo posted placards on the building with slogans such as, “Medical capacity has reached its limits. Stop the Olympics!” Susumu Morita, the secretary general of the Japan Federation of Medical Workers’ Unions, vented: “I am furious at the insistence on staging the Olympics despite the risk to patients’ and nurses’ health and lives.”

The Olympic torch relay — designed to generate excitement about the upcoming Games, with torch runners zigzagging the country — has not inspired confidence: Numerous people working with the relay have tested positive for the coronavirus. Moreover, the event only features domestic participants and a mere fraction of the 11,000 Olympic athletes who will arrive in Japan from more than 200 countries, plus tens of thousands more in support staff.

Japan’s pandemic state of emergency provides a historic challenge to the Olympic state of exception. When the IOC’s Coates was asked whether any scenario existed that would lead to cancellation or further postponement, he was blunt: “No, there’s not.” But the struggle between the Olympic state of exception and the coronavirus state of emergency continues, with only weeks until the Games are slated to begin. For now, the Olympics are superseding the virus as well as the will of the Japanese people. But if we’ve learned anything from the pandemic, it’s that prediction is a tricky business.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...ndemic-crisis/

[TN1965]

European Union leaders express support for holding Tokyo Olympics (espn.com)

The European Union's two top officials expressed support Thursday for holding the Tokyo Olympics despite growing opposition to the event in Japan because of the coronavirus pandemic.

[Conor Dary]

I may have made the last one up.

Poor Atticus....

Anyways I just post the latest news....change channels if you don't like it....

[Atticus]

As Covid Continues, Calls Are Mounting To Cancel The Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo Olympics plans are 'dangerous,' Osterholm says

Japan to extend COVID-19 state of emergency to June 20, official says

Japan doctors union warns games could lead to 'Tokyo Olympic' virus strain

Japan doctor group warns Tokyo Olympics could cause health crisis

Physician warns Tokyo Olympics could spread variants

Japan doctors warn that doomscrolling leads to Global Warming

I may have made the last one up.

[Conor Dary]

Conor and an unidentified runner on a country road outside Eugene.

That looks more like Bad Hammy there. But otherwise not bad...

[DrJay]

Conor and an unidentified runner on a country road outside Eugene.

[Conor Dary]

"Stop The Fear Porn, The Olympics Should Go On — Japan’s COVID Rate Is Currently 50% Less Than the Rate in the US"

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/05...ate-in-the-us/

Letsrun knows how to make click-bait!

Clickbait indeed...The Japanese are also unvaccinated....but let's not worry about that...

[Conor Dary]

Physician warns Tokyo Olympics could spread variants

https://apnews.com/article/tokyo-oly...38beb924f0000a

[Conor Dary]

Japan doctor group warns Tokyo Olympics could cause health crisis

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2...th-crisis.html

[Conor Dary]

Japan doctors union warns games could lead to 'Tokyo Olympic' virus strain

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...okyo-olympics/

[Conor Dary]

Japan to extend COVID-19 state of emergency to June 20, official says


https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ate-emergency/

[Atticus]

"Stop The Fear Porn, The Olympics Should Go On — Japan’s COVID Rate Is Currently 50% Less Than the Rate in the US"

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/05...ate-in-the-us/

Letsrun knows how to make click-bait!

[HopStepJump]

Meanwhile...

Tokyo Olympics plans are 'dangerous,' Osterholm says


Public health expert Michael Osterholm tells CNN's John Berman that the current Covid-19 safety approach for the Tokyo Olympics is "dangerous" if many of the plans don't change.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/20...newday-vpx.cnn

How much money doyou have riding on this not happening?