Now Imma Say This Once Again Open Up Your Mind Shocks Heard Around the World
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AG
Naturally... how would he justify his fat salary otherwise?
Probably pressuring japanese regime more than ever to "control those Covid case numbers" even more than.
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Thomas Goodtime
These mascots are too abysmal. Is in that location a single positive attribute of these Olympics?
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finally rich
This cursed thing giving everyone anxiety until last minute!!
Even if they allow strange/local public, no ane in their right listen would make plans for something unstable like this.
Also think about the athletes, waking up every morning to check if this event is all the same up. What a disgrace! Looks and feels absolutely cypher similar the real Olympics.
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Tokyo-Engr
@AG. Just FYI, Seiko Hashimoto is a "she".
I was as well disappointed she would non admit the possibility of canceling the games.
She is an ex gold medalist who is now an LDP member and affiliated with Nippon Kaigi.
It would have been much better if a non political appointee would have been made.
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sakurasuki
This is contempo report from scientist nearly that issue
https://world wide web.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/tokyo-olympics-must-be-reconsidered-due-japans-failure-incorporate-pandemic-study-2021-04-16/
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virusrex
I really wish they are asked a articulate and straight question like "What is the meridian priority, public health or the games?" but at least in Japan information technology seems impossible to exercise information technology.
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obladi
I've heard several people say "Japan was unlucky" to host the olympics during the pandemic. The pandemic itself may have been bad luck, only the insistance on pursuing go-to travel and olympics instead of vaccines was a option. Luck had nothing to practise with it.
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Paul
There is still fourth dimension to begin mass inoculations with Sputnik Five and save the Olympics. Will the Japanese government put Nippon first and ignore what the U.s.a. regime wants?
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Bob Fosse
Yeah, that sounds realistic.
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Jim
Since the Tokyo Olympic committee, IOC and the Japanese Government are determined to have information technology then the simply safe option is to invite merely the athletes and downsize it on a massive calibration. No overseas volunteers and limit the squad officials and executives too ( 90 % of them don't practice much either way and are simply at that place wasting the tax payers coin )! Get local interpreters equally I'm sure Japan already has enough foreigners here from every country participating in the Olympic Games ( Use the strange nationals living in Nihon instead of bringing in overseas volunteers). Vigilance will be required with testing upon inflow and isolation at designated centers and hotels. Follow the aforementioned strategy that the Australian open organizers did this year. They could even escort teams to the Olympic village and cordon off that zone and then that they cannot leave that expanse. Don't allow them to go to local areas since it'due south non a sightseeing trip every bit we are nonetheless in a pandemic. It sounds harsh but the athletes are coming hither to compete and not for sightseeing and mingling with locals ( sacrifices needed on both ends ). Fifty-fifty though the number of infections are hitting elevation during the "4th wave" in Nippon correct now, ane matter is for sure that the Japanese public will arraign the foreigners who come for the Olympic Games for the infection rate fasten during the games!
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El Rata
I think she talks too much, she is delusional across conventionalities. The games volition exist cancelled, let'due south see what'southward she has to say one time relevant countries start to denote they won't be coming.
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KI
Common sense! An international issue in the heart of a surging pandemic. Do the benefits outway the risk????
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Practise the hustle
And so, how many daily cases of COVID is likewise many to host the games? i,000? five,000? x,000? More?
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Jind
Money Talks......
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Paul
Information technology's a long-shot but with such a huge amount of coin at stake, I thought the government might, and promise information technology will, brand a intermission from the US regime and do what'south best for Nihon.
Not every bit if buying a safe and effective vaccine has to be the end of Japan-U.s. relations. If the Usa wants to stick with Pfizer-BioNTech and a booster shot every 3 months, they can do that. Just call information technology "Freedom Vaccine" and the majority of the population should go along with it.
The Olympics are yet around 100 days out. It's recommended the Sputnik shots be administered 21 days apart only even after 1 shot, they say (and unlike Pfizer, don't keep irresolute the story for the worse) it'south very highly effective against astringent infection. I presume Japan has the manufacturing facilities to pump out a large number of shots very apace.
And so yes, it's very realistic if i were to condone the politics.
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dbsaiya
No spectators, but there volition exist TV technical crews, media, and all sorts arriving and not all volition be staying in the Olympic village. The number I've seen is lxxx,000. I want Hashimoto and Marukawa to show the additional number of beds and medical staff necessary to treat the aforementioned percentage of the 80,000 as the weekly infection rate of Tokyo. I also desire them to show how they're going to treat additional estrus stroke cases among the 80,000. Volunteers / translators have been showing skepticism and accept quit. Practise they take enough to human being the hospitals or are they only going to be at the venues? These are the questions these clowns should be answering if they desire to be transparent.
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Tokyo-Engr
Calculation to the above; Information technology is also important to think that tremendous force per unit area is being put on Japan from the outside every bit well. This pressure level is from the IOC and media companies and other business interests around the earth who have a vested interest in ensuring the games go along at all toll.
For those of you lot old enough to remember the xenophobic and nationalistic volume in the belatedly 80'due south (NO)と言える日本 (The Japan that tin say "No") past Ishihara of the LDP and Morita (then Sony chairman) information technology would be a good fourth dimension to invoke that message.
I say to the LDP: In the intereststs of the Japanese people be "the Japan that tin say no" and tell the world Japan is not willing to take the risk associated with the Olympics.
The problem is the LDP does non necessarily care virtually the Japanese population as a whole.
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Bob Fosse
What does your search consequence prove?
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jiji Xx
Ōsaka, and now Okinawa, have decided that running the torch is too hazardous for public roads but..... the hundreds of thousands of people coming to and moving about in Nippon.... over the space of several weeks is.... (insert word of choice here)
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n1k1
If this was a European land, by now we would have seen massive demonstrations confronting the Games or who knows, given the confusing rhetoric from the government maybe even Coup d'etat
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Paul
I didn't practice any search for "Japan pharmaceutical product" or annihilation like that. That's why I stated, "I presume". Japan however has a lot of manufacturing adequacy. Virtually of it has gone to Red china but as a %, I think it's quite a bit less than USA and Western Europe.
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Peter Neil
They'll wiggle out of this by proverb the games were not "cancelled," they will be postponed...
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Fighto!
The more denials there are, the closer we are to a certain counterfoil.
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Bjorn Tomention
Selfish, stupid people in charge with no idea of reality !
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kwatt
Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled under such worldwide pandemic circumstance. If Tokyo Olympics done, China will go in Wintertime. Pandemic goes on for a couple of years. Each land does non accept to allow athletes to go to Japan if they don't want to go.
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Sven Asai
I just but wonder if they practice their job for the human beings or for the viruses.
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Sven Asai
I but simply wonder if they do their job for the human beings or for the viruses.
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Gooch
The government will cede everything to ensure this circus goes alee, regardless of the harm it does to everything else.
Call up what George Carlin said: "Information technology'southward a large club, and you ain't in it."
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Seawolf
The Games will be held definitely. The gov volition sell it to the people by claiming to create a bubble with no contacts between locals outside, and athletes plus their coaches etc within. What they will not mention is that as well the volunteers, a huge number of local, ordinary Japanese workers will be needed to make clean the venues every twenty-four hour period, to drive all the cars and shuttle busses around, and the service workers inside the food venues. Those will be front line workers, exposed to different strains from all corners of the earth of the Covid 19 virus (We might even become a new strain out of this chosen "Tokyo 2020"!). But every bit they are "unimportant" to the great scheme of the LDP and their business organisation partners they volition conveniently be forgotten, earlier and subsequently the Games!
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Michael Machida
Woods Gump would agree with the Head of the Tokyo Olympics the Tokyo Olympics will not exist cancelled. I hateful, why would they be cancelled?
"Head of Tokyo Olympics again says Games will not exist canceled"
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Kyakusenbi_Arimasu
It appears that the government does not care near what 80% of its governing populous thinks. In my opinion, it is time to elect a different faction that would truly represent the citizens.
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marcelito
It appears that the government does not care about what lxxx% of its governing populous thinks.
LDP governments never cared what population thinks...they created a system that guarantees ( well-nigh 100,%) their perpetual re- ballot.
In my opinion, it is time to elect a different faction that would truly correspond the citizens.
No such LDP faction exists at nowadays.
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Ricky Sanchez
Of course he is going to say they will become on..but like he did last time..he has to stick to his guns and not surrender..until the final infinitesimal, in which he will say they are cancelled.
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anon99999
Magnificent games showing mankind's victory over the virus exist it with empty stadiums ( except for privileged IOC members and their guests such equally foreign visiting dignitaries) must go alee no thing what. Frequent testing of athletes to provide a covid rubber games whilst in the residue of Tokyo, hospitals may be inundation and people dying at dwelling due to deprival of testing. What a splendid victory over COVID!
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John doe
So at this point we volition but be watching sick people trying to recover from Covid as the competitive games?
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Farmboy
The Olympics volition take place, though at that place may be a few adjustments. For example, there will be no athletes and no viewers. In that location will, still, be mascots and a store where you can purchase your Olympic items, though it may be an online shop. Certainly it will exist memorable. Please enjoy.
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shogun36
I really promise the public is recording all the video and audio of these jokers and what they are "promising" or "guaranteeing" will be happening equally far as the 2021 Olympics are concerned. Merely to have proof at all the ignorance, double standards, and contradictions that are spewing out of the mouths of these fountains of misinformation, that they phone call OFFICIALS of the games.
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Crashpilot
Maybe someone should tell that caput that Tokyo is hosting the games, Tokyo does not ain them.
Anyway, the games will be held, when that much money is involved the health of the participants, athletes and officials does not matter. I am also sure that there will exist a prissy memorial service for the people that get the decease in that location and dice of information technology, or possibly not considering if someone dies information technology is almost certain that the death has zilch to do with Covik-nineteen.
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1glenn
Become all athletes and support staff vaccinated, and and so hold the Olympics.
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