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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4005928, member: 591"] I agree that they should go on, separated largely from the Japanese population. And, with athletes generally vaccinated, having (reportedly) access to vaccinations, testing protocols, etc. and with the Athlete's Village essentially a sort of bubble, I don't see this as an event likely to be a super-spreader throughout the world and certainly not throughout the US. That said, you are being (in my opinion) too "one size fits all" in your remarks. There are areas (and Japan is one, apparently, and lots of other nations) where vaccines are not well distributed, rates of infection are still (relatively) high and coming out and reclaiming the life they have left could mean making that life very, very short. There are areas in the US where folks are resuming life as normal at very high risk - it is within their rights to do so, of course, but I wouldn't rush if I was unvaccinated in an area of remaining significant spread. If my wife did not remain at personal high risk (immunosuppressed) I would probably be pretty much back to normal, as it is not an area presenting undo risk to someone vaccinated. Since she can't, I can't. [/QUOTE]