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Coronavirus Update: Tokyo Olympics 2020 Under Threat, Sports Events Cancelled Or Moved
International Business Times ^
| 02/17/2020+
| Arthur Villasanta
Posted on 02/18/2020 9:19:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
the event in Wuhan was cancelled...
Good move! Definitely a good move!
The thing is that if Asians are more susceptible, as “experts” are saying, then it could spread kinda fast there.
I hope it doesn’t.
And no I don’t understand the genetic reason why they are more predisposed even though I read the article twice :)
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:24:14 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
To: SeekAndFind
I want to make it clear that the Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee are not holding any discussions whatsoever about whether or not to hold the Tokyo Games, Abe emphasized.Yeah, right.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:25:23 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
To: SeekAndFind
Probably not. Really 5 months from now this will either be a massive pandemic (almost certainly not) or burned out (like all the other panics). Olympics will be fine, or a whole lotta stuff more important than them will be canceled.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:26:51 AM PST
by
discostu
(I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
To: Sans-Culotte
The difference in sanitation between China and Japan is like night and day.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:27:52 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: SeekAndFind; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
...and the band played on.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:28:55 AM PST
by
null and void
(By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
To: discostu
Yup—either the Olympics will happen (which means everything is fine) of they won’t (which means the epidemic means business).
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:33:42 AM PST
by
cgbg
(The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
To: SeekAndFind
You want to know what the 2020 Olympics will look like? Take a look at the stadium photos when ROK played a friendly soccer game in North Korea.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:35:06 AM PST
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
To: SeekAndFind
Not to sound all “WOO-WOO”, but Tom Clancy wrote about a bio attack at the Olympics.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:35:38 AM PST
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
To: VanShuyten
Take a look at the stadium photos when ROK played a friendly soccer game in North Korea.Or any FC Dallas home game.....Sadly I am one of the few that actually does go to their games.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:35:53 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dp0622
“The thing is that if Asians are more susceptible”
So far one report based on an admittedly incomplete study, but which looks to have been reverse-engineered from the limited data available.
Not saying it’s false, but I would wait for more reliable studies and assume *everybody* is extremely susceptible.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:41:55 AM PST
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
To: SeekAndFind
To: dfwgator
Are there scalpers and if so is it easy to get below cost tix?
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:46:13 AM PST
by
xp38
To: SeekAndFind
People who think this virus won’t effect the financial machinery of the world are delusional...
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:47:38 AM PST
by
GOPJ
( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
To: GOPJ
China’s already worried it will not meet it’s trade deals.
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posted on
02/18/2020 9:49:29 AM PST
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caww
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/18/2020 10:15:37 AM PST
by
sauropod
(David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
To: SeekAndFind
If necessary PRC could be kept from attending, but five months is an eternity in the life cycle of a virus.
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posted on
02/18/2020 10:19:58 AM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: chajin
RE: If necessary PRC could be kept from attending
That would really suck, since PRC has some of the best athletes in the world in various sports...
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posted on
02/18/2020 10:22:18 AM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: LibWhacker
LOL!! That’s a good mash up of Koontz book Wuhan page 353 and Sylvia Browne’s EoD prediction.
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posted on
02/18/2020 10:22:29 AM PST
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
To: themidnightskulker
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posted on
02/18/2020 10:25:35 AM PST
by
Monitor
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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