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© Thomson Reuters 2021.Japan's most senior medical adviser says hosting Olympics 'not normal'
By Antoni Slodkowski and Sakura Murakami TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Yubaru
Boy the things I REALLY want to comment here would be deleted in a heartbeat!
What a way to state the obvious. But then everyone in the government is oblivious anyway, so what difference is it going to make!
Some dude
You could bet your bottom dollar (or yen) that if Mr. Suga or one of the arrogant busybodies from the IOC visited their physician and were told “you really need to do a, b, or c, or you’re risking x, y, and z”, they’d do a, b, or c. Yet somehow when the top medical experts in Japan say the same thing about the games, they see fit to say - even if it’s just implicitly - “nah, we’ll take a gamble on x, y, and z”
snowymountainhell
Please do @Yubaru 7:57am
Wed give you carte blanche, But
Agreed.
shogun36
one of the strongest warnings yet........so the first 69 million warnings before this were not as strong a case as Omi’s?
robert maes
People like Omi San are the worst. He is only covering his own back by not resigning his words are meaningless BUT if the worst happens he will say he did his best to oppose the Games in 2021.
Hollytree
Only 2.7% of Japanese have completed inoculations, a Reuters tracker shows, though the pace of new infections has slowed.
Someone needs to suggest a fact check to Reuters!
ian
As pointed out by Antiquesaving, that figure is accurate at presstime, it refers to completed inoculations meaning part of population that already had two doses
japanamericaawesome
Well although he is stating the obvious, I am sure those government and IOC clowns will not listen
John-San
Omi San is being polite at best. If the world standard of 1.5 m for social distancing apply to the Tokyo games won't the track and field lanes need to be at 1.5 m wide ? And what about the pool ? Will they fill the pool with sanitiser. Should they have sanitiser baths for all competitors prior to each and every event ?