Posted on 03/13/2020 4:39:54 AM PDT by C19fan
President Donald Trump’s suggestion to postpone the Tokyo Olympics for a year because of the spreading coronavirus was immediately shot down by Japan’s Olympic minister. “The IOC and the organizing committee are not considering cancellation or a postponement — absolutely not at all,” Seiko Hashimoto, an Olympic bronze medalist, told a news conference on Friday in Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers have stayed on message since the viral outbreak in China three months ago spread across Asia and then the globe: The games will open as schedule on July 24.
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No one in their right mind would go, so it doesn’t matter how the Japanese government feels.
How about the U.S. Women's Soccer Team?
Are all these huge international enterprises just some kind of runaway train on a track that deadends a few miles down the road, or there some wiser and calmer steps that may be taken to avert utter disaster?
Postponement is not cancellation. The vast haste in erecting an “Olympic Village” may now be geared back to a more measured and frankly safer course, both for the benefit of the participants and the vast audience that shall stream to the site. The additional time will also give the world a much better handle on how to deal with the COVID-19 threat, and other similar threats that could conceivably be implicit in such worldwide gatherings.
Too much emotion and a lack of calm, cool logical thinking should not be guiding our actions and responses.
The Prez did not suggest anything. When asked about postponing, he replied that’s up to Japan.
At least President Trump is on record talking about it. What ever happens, the idea and topic is out there and he was thinking ahead.
How about the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team?
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The poster asked about anyone ‘in their right mind’.
Plus they’re so repulsive I doubt even this virus would go near them.
And they hate the United States so why would they even want to go?
We were posting about it here on FR weeks ago.
Money money money ...The Japanese govt. and associates could care less about the populace , etc...$$$ . Money , money , money ...money !
I hear there are several cruise ships in mothballs now. People could take a cruise to get there cheap.
Lettum’ go...
From another poster. Lengthy important read
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html
“How about the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team?”
They’ll ask for cash to stay home.
Because they make so much less than the men, whatever, etc.
I think I’d heavily consider whether or not I’d send any American athletes there to be gin with.
Constructing nuclear reactors in hot tsunami zones wasn’t too good of an idea either.
But... I see the point. Gross outlays of invested yen have poured into the grandeur (i.e. NSDAP inspired BTW) of the Olympic sporting gala, only to have it smooshed by a mere virus would be alarmist and subject to great dishonor.
Maybe it’s time the world Olympics stage returned to a more modest approach to the games, which would include a reduction in the idiocy of some of the sporting events not in keeping with the heralded Greek concept of producing a games in which the sports selected would be martial in nature.
I’d be surprised if the Olympics are postponed - mass hysteria isn’t sustainable. Individuals and groups of individuals are going to get tired of banning profitable group events and hoarding toilet paper in a couple of weeks and life will get back to normal fairly rapidly. People will get coronavirus, just as they get the flu, thousands will die just as they die to the flu, and life will go on.
“How about the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team”
Well they are mostly lesbs, so not in their right minds. The rest were probably born men - as in with d***s still hanging between their legs.
There has already been extensive discussion of the issue in Japan. Bottom line: Japan makes the decision and Prime Minister Abe has said the decision will be made in May. So all the Minister for the Olympics is saying is that the games are still on...until the someone with sufficient authority says they are not.
A couple of random thoughts:
1. There are already massive cancellations occurring in the travel sector and that is going to continue until the coronavirus pandemic is fully controlled. So any business or location dependent on high volume tourist travel for income is in for a bad year. Warm weather will not help; development and mass production of an effective vaccine will.
2. The Olympics is a sporting event that athletes train for years to qualify and compete in. In some sports, the time of peak, Olympics-level performance for an athlete may be very short. In others, the whole process of qualifying either individually or as teams may be timed to the Olympic Games cycle. Delaying the actual competition (even without spectators) may end or greatly complicate these cycles of preparation.
3. Even if held without spectators, the competitions would still be broadcast and that is how the vast majority of people would view them anyway. This doesn’t do anything for lost revenue to the hosting nation. But, if cancelled, Japan is one of the strongest nations economically and, quite frankly, the lost Olympics-related revenue may be just a fraction of what is going to be lost due to all the measures that will be taken in Japan to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
Olympic Qualifying starts now. Are they going to have it? I doubt it.
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