Katie Lou Will Not Participate in the Olympics [merged thread]

[AgStatesman]

'Japan has the lowest rate of heart disease in the OECD, and the lowest level of dementia in the developed world.'

Very illuminating. This would mean absolutely something if the world's athlete's were worried about contracting heart disease or dementia in the next 3 weeks. Alas we are talking about Covid. Im talking apples and you try to make it about oranges.

 

[Stymie]

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Very illuminating. This would mean absolutely something if the world's athlete's were worried about contracting heart disease or dementia in the next 3 weeks. Alas we are talking about Covid. Im talking apples and you try to make it about ora

 

[Stymie]

HaHaHaHaHa

 

[cabbie191]

The list of athletes not participating due to Covid is going to be a long one before this is over. The Japanese have done a crap job dealing with the pandemic and quite frankly don't deserve to host the Olympics.

Regarding your last sentence, if this is true, what does it say about how the US has handled COVID?

if you compare the ratio of the two country’s populations and apply that ratio to the number of COVID deaths suffered by the Japanese, the death toll in our country would be 39,000 instead of the 609,000 we have experienced. Our death rate is 15.6 times greater than that of the Japanese.

I’m not saying the Japanese have done a great job managing the pandemic, and I think their management of the Olympics and decision making has left a lot to be desired, but I wouldn’t be casting stones their way either.