TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese professor of infectious disease says he is “very pessimistic” the postponed Tokyo Olympics can open in 15 months.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1304835
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1304835
None of this stuff is coming back until there’s a vaccine. The sooner we accept that, the better.
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And even after that it will be a long time before enough people are vaccinated.
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The Olympic Games are a myth.
My father was in advertising, and I learned early on that any passion requiring a multi-million dollar budget is really a media campaign designed solely to sell something. And so it is with Olympism; however noble the passion may have been originally, its current raison d’être is to perpetuate the illusion that, whatever the cost, the Olympics matter, that the world is better off spending billions every two years to produce a two-week orgy of spectator sport where we mindlessly watch the successes of others instead of going out and creating our own.
May the Olys flame out and the torch thrown into the ocean.
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