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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 4013544, member: 6927"] Well I seem to be going against the spirit of the room here (or at least of those speaking up), but I want the Olympics to go forward. Much has been made of the recent rise in Japan's infection rate, but comparatively speaking, Japan's infection rate is still dwarfed by that of the United States and other countries where athletic competitions have been ongoing. According to [URL='https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases']Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases - Statistics and Research[/URL] , Japan's infection rate stands at 24.61 daily new confirmed cases per million people, compared to 104.92 in the US, 122.92 in France, and 677.55 in the UK. If we haven't been spending the past 8-9 months clamoring for the NCAA, NBA, NHL et al. to suspend all competition here — where the infection rate is currently four times higher than in Japan — it seems inconsistent to call for cancelling the Olympics. [/QUOTE]