Why not just postpone it for the same time next year? It's still possible and not a complete cancellation either.
Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
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Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
#132I've been checking for updates on the virus several times a day since it first started being reported in Western media around Jan 20 (in part because it's been a fun distraction, in part because I have friends in Wuhan). I like to think I'm generally an optimist, but I think it's been clear for several weeks now that this is going to have a significant worldwide impact. There are just too many factors in favor of unc…
The BNO link is a great resource, thanks for sharing. A slightly different take on how the Chinese government is handling this outbreak can be found below, (explaining why so many Chinese citizens are actually voicing discontent on social media).
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/15/coronavirus-xi-jinping-...
Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our widespread abuse of antibiotics isn't helping. To think that we can go 100 years without a serious pandemic while also abusing antibiotics at an unprecedented scale betrays a sheer disregard for biology and nature.
This is a virus. Antibiotics are for bacterial diseases
Although apparently some deaths are the result of opportunistic bacterial secondary infections.
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Where do you find how many people the US has tested? I can't find that anywhere.
Here's one source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/25/cdc-coronav... > While South Korea has run more than 35,000 coronavirus tests, the United States has tested only 426 people, not including people who returned on evacuation flights.
> not including people who returned on evacuation flights.
This bit seems important. The “only 400 tested!” statistic people are citing seems much more reasonable in this context.
Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meh, I’ve been warning people about the coronavirus for a couple weeks now. And our prepper contingent has been on it for years. The silver lining is by this time next year, we should have ~20% less throwaway accounts being created for comments like these. Many years back I read The Coming Plague about epidemiology and the disease cowboys who fight it. There is always a coming plague, known or novel. It was only a ma…
The prepper contingent has predicted 250 out of the last 3 global plague events correctly.
But they only need to be right once.
Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
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Not to mention the virus is mutating and is now killing healthy people in their twenties in Hubei (if not at least serious disease requiring mechanical ventilation and supplemental oxygen). Also there is evidence the HIV drugs are no longer working due to the virus developing resistance. Those of you thinking "oh I'm a healthy young person I'm just gonna carry on doing what I'm doing" is gonna be in for a rude awaken…
This, unfortunately
A 25 year old nurse just passed away in Iran battling the virus.
https://mobile.twitter.com/farnazfassihi/status/123245395758...
Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think many people here on hackernews are being stupid that they are healthy adults so they don't need to worry. Even if you don't die you will be out of the work force for 2-3 weeks either because you are sick or quarantined. You could pass the infection to your children, parents Grand parents who might not be able to fight off the infection and die. Many people get flu vaccines or over the years have built up some…
Not to mention the virus is mutating and is now killing healthy people in their twenties in Hubei (if not at least serious disease requiring mechanical ventilation and supplemental oxygen). Also there is evidence the HIV drugs are no longer working due to the virus developing resistance. Those of you thinking "oh I'm a healthy young person I'm just gonna carry on doing what I'm doing" is gonna be in for a rude awaken…
Sources?
Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
#138I've been checking for updates on the virus several times a day since it first started being reported in Western media around Jan 20 (in part because it's been a fun distraction, in part because I have friends in Wuhan). I like to think I'm generally an optimist, but I think it's been clear for several weeks now that this is going to have a significant worldwide impact. There are just too many factors in favor of unc…
> relatively low-traffic countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka seeing cases very early on
Sri Lanka is/was already in season and a significant amount of their tourists are Chinese. Or would be, as Visas are now cancelled so there aren't any anymore.
Wouldn't call that low traffic or put it into a two items list.
Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think many people here on hackernews are being stupid that they are healthy adults so they don't need to worry. Even if you don't die you will be out of the work force for 2-3 weeks either because you are sick or quarantined. You could pass the infection to your children, parents Grand parents who might not be able to fight off the infection and die. Many people get flu vaccines or over the years have built up some…
Not to mention the virus is mutating and is now killing healthy people in their twenties in Hubei (if not at least serious disease requiring mechanical ventilation and supplemental oxygen). Also there is evidence the HIV drugs are no longer working due to the virus developing resistance. Those of you thinking "oh I'm a healthy young person I'm just gonna carry on doing what I'm doing" is gonna be in for a rude awaken…
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Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
#140One thing that's not being noted is that the disease has almost 1 in 500 mortality rate for under 40.