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No one in their right mind would go, so it doesn’t matter how the Japanese government feels.


2 posted on 03/13/2020 4:43:32 AM PDT by JonPreston
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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?

3 posted on 03/13/2020 4:55:42 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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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.


4 posted on 03/13/2020 4:56:47 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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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.


16 posted on 03/13/2020 5:49:32 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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