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If our athletes want to go to the games so badly, they can compete under the IOC flag. They'll be identifed as Olympic Athletes from the United States.
Posted on 01/24/2022 11:33:30 AM PST by george76
How convenient when a bureaucratic body has the power to switch COVID standards at the drop of a hat in order to allow it to continue moving forward and not shut down as the rest of us have been forced to do. COVID Standards around testing and quarantine rules are going from asinine and impossible to achieve to almost gone in the blink of an eye. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last week he was doing away with all COVID precautions from vaccine mandates to mask wearing, and instead, would rely on the judgement of its citizens to protect themselves.
Now, the Beijing Olympics organizers and Chinese authorities are lowering the threshold for athletes to participate in the upcoming games. Likely, they realize that just like all other aspects of the world, the mandates and expectations are shutting down businesses and industries left and right.
Specifically, China has lowered the threshold for producing a negative COVID-19 test for participants as they arrive for the Winter Games which will begin next week on February 4th. In a statement, organizers said:
“In order to adapt to the reality of the current environment and further support of Games participants, Beijing 2022 and the Chinese authorities, in consultation with medical experts and IOC, refined countermeasures with the following changes effective 23 January 2022.”
The concern was that athletes could test negative in their home countries after recovering from COVID-19 but still test positive upon their arrival in China, reported the Wall Street Journal. That’s because their testing standards were “tougher than those used by many sports leagues in the U.S. and Europe.”
The CBC reports the communication was sent out by Beijing 2022 on Sunday explaining it was dropping the cycle threshold (Ct) value from 40 to 35. Anyone with a PCR result of less than 35 will be considered positive. The higher the Ct value, the less infectious a person with COVID-19 is. The CBC also reports:
Further changes include that if a positive participant spends 10 days or more in isolation, then that person will be released to their Games time accommodation if they are not displaying any COVID-19 symptoms and if their PCR results have a Ct value greater than or equal to 35 for the past three consecutive days.
Another change is reducing the time in which a person is deemed a close contact, dropping from two weeks to seven days.
“During that period, testing will be carried out twice daily. The close contact will be able to choose whether their PCR test sample is collected as a nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab,” the communication explained.
All of these changes will be applied immediately and will also apply retrospectively.
So the Joker can compete now?
One hour after Biden was installed by the deep state, WHO changed covid cycle testing criteria from from 40 to 20.. which resulted in large reductions in the numbers of false positive cases..
I suspect many collapsing covid-negative athletes on the horizon.
What about the anal swabs?
U.S. Mountain Biking Champion — Kyle Warner is 29 years old and was at the peak of his career .. the experimental vaxx ended his racing career…
Kyle Warner diagnosed with Pericarditis, Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and reactive arthritis after taking the vaxx..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4011892/posts
Olympics? Is mittens at it again?
China brings back anal swab testing for Covid two weeks before Winter Olympics begin.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4031469/posts
Why are we sending our athletes to a giant spreader event if it is so deadly?
My little brother who has been an airline Captain for decades had similar heart issues after getting the Pfizer. It is a bizarre tale with many ups and downs, but the government, airlines, and flight surgeons currently are lowering their standard to keep vaccinated professional pilots in the air. It really is almost unbelievable. The standards especially for private pilots were unreasonable in many ways, but now for the professionals at least... a history of severe heart problems does not necessarily keep one out of the cockpit for very long. Whether this will eventually result in a crashed airliner full of people is hard to say.
95% of the severe patients are vaccinated .. 85-90% of the hospitalizations are in Fully vaccinated... Israel:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3982471/posts
Triple jabbed Swiss marathon record holder and Olympic athlete diagnosed with myocarditis. ~Fabienne Schlumpf.
Jeremy Chardy: I cannot practice, I cannot play. Tennis ace ends season, admits he regrets taking Covid vaccine after feeling ‘violent pain… Former 2017 Davis Cup winner.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3998394/posts
Best idea yet!
One of my friends said China is using these ‘anal swabs’ and other testing methods as a way to get DNA so they can use it in their labs on how to do the most damage against Westerners.
Oriental honor culture is using anal swabbing to inflict humiliation on “inferior” Western races.
‘Why are we sending our athletes to a giant spreader event if it is so deadly?’
because it’s not...deadly, I mean...
If our athletes want to go to the games so badly, they can compete under the IOC flag. They'll be identifed as Olympic Athletes from the United States.
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