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[QUOTE="JordyG, post: 4013579, member: 6819"]
Well it seems that over 80% of the athletes in the Olympic village have already been vaccinated.  99% of the infections reported are among those who have not been vaccinated.  So that leaves about 2200 athletes that are at risk.  Those are the people that have thrown the dice, and those are the people who should be worried.  Now, the number of severe breakthrough infections among vaccinated populations is about 0.003%, so among the vaccinated in the village that number is vanishingly low.  So whether we see among the unvaccinated a nasty outbreak only time will tell.

This of course is not a response to you.  As for whether we should cancel these games I'm quite ambivalent.  Yes these athletes are at risk.  Yes, this new variant seems to love those in the 20-40 years old range very much.  Yes, many of those who live where the games are to be held are not in favor of the games continuing.  But these athletes have toiled, most in silence, for all there lives for this moment.  Have sacrificed income, family, friends, and personal lives for their sport.  To take this away from them when it is just within their grasp, once again, would be cruel and perhaps, unjust.  I'm leaning toward having the games continue.
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