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Imagine if Japan administered COVID vaccinations as aggressively as it is condoms.

Everyday I get more frustrated with this situation. I cannot understand how a nation facing a national health crisis can accept diverting critical resources like doctors to a game when hospitals are near breaking point. This is a classic case of when leaders fail to lead.

Japan, listen to your medical professionals! Why are the medical experts not allowed to influence the decisions around what Japan should do. This is a national crisis! Japan is in a war against COVID and the country is not listening to its doctors. Unacceptable!

Who made Coates the Prime Minister of Japan? Because he is certainly acting like it by declaring what will and will not happen in the sovereign nation of Japan. Japan, take control over your country and specify what conditions would warrant a cancellation. Be clear about your limits!

This is what happens when Japan is fails to sets limits and define the exact conditions for when the Olympics should be cancelled in the state of a national emergency. It also shows what happens when the nation’s medical leaders are not major contributors to decision making during a nation health crisis.

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Nature is more complex than we realize. Attempting to narrowly define biological norms is dangerous because it oversimplifies the dynamics of nature and human diversity.

The picture says it all. While the Japanese leadership sits powerless, the IOC is running things from on high, deciding how Japanese national policy will manage its resources in the face of a national emergency. The IOC continues to frame the games as safe when in fact the real problem is Japan’s distraction away from accelerating its vaccination program and relieving pressure on its medical facilities. Japan is already struggling with its vaccination program. It doesn’t need the Olympics stealing precious resources away from the Covid fight.

We are witnessing human tragedy unfolding. There is big difference between running an Olympic event and running a country. The Japanese government needs to put its foot down, stand with its medical experts and refuse to host the games under these emergency conditions. The IOC wants to focus on how safe the games will be when in fact the event planning and hosting is already diverting critical resources from fighting the pandemic. Hospitals are stretched beyond capacity, few hospital beds are available, and people are dying in their homes! Yet, thousands of beds are being readied for incoming Olympic athletes and staff. I hope someone will be the adult in the room and make the tough decision. Cancel the games now!

COVID-19 cases have been growing nationwide in recent weeks, putting further strains on the country's medical system. More patients are dying at home due to the difficulty of finding available hospital beds, with the situation worsened by the spread of the new variants and the slow process of inoculation.

When people are dying in their homes because they cannot find hospital beds, yet the government is provisioning thousands of beds for the Olympics, you have a competition for resources. Japan needs to be 100% focused on a rapid vaccination rollout. The Olympics is a distraction to the manpower, decision making, money, energy, and time needed for the vaccination effort.

In areas placed under the state of emergency, restaurants are being told to close by 8 p.m.

Are government officials assuming COVID-19 only comes out at night?

The Olympics will show the world, what Japan is all about.

Unfortunately, irrational. This is not a macho contest — a measure of how myopic Japan can be. This is not about proving how tough Japan can be by watching people die while it dogmatically focuses on hosting games. Games! Vaccinate the people living in Japan, then worry about the games.

The decision to cancel should be easy. And the petition should have made it even easier. In any other situation the games could go on. But Japan is in a national state of emergency and experiencing its fourth wave. Furthermore, the vaccination program is exceptionally slow. This is no time to split attention and resources between life saving efforts to vaccinate the nation and preparing for Olympic Games. Prioritize life over games and focus 100% of the nation’s efforts on accelerating the vaccination program.

I am sure Japan would need to pay heavy fines if it canceled due to contractual obligations, but the sovereign nation of Japan is in a state of emergency. Nothing should ever distract a nation from addressing its national emergencies. Games have been canceled before. This would be no different.

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This should only happen if Japan has a successful, high paced vaccination campaign in place for its citizens/residents. But Japan does not. Once again, the Olympic games are competing with Japan’s COVID response for time, focus and resources. Leaders should not be spending hours in meetings resolving logistics around hosting the Olympics. They should be working around the clock to quickly unblock every vaccination issue that surfaces and increase velocity. For Japan, vaccinating the nation SHOULD BE the Olympics!

This is what happens when a nation is not putting all its focus and resources on vaccinations but rather splitting it with the Olympic Games. Where’s the horizontal server capacity and the high availability redundancy? No expense should be spared to ensure systems remain up to support this national emergency. This is prioritization 101.

This is being handled like Brexit—regardless of public opinion, we’ll do it anyway! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Japan should cancel these games snd divert ALL time, energy and money into vaccinating its population! Japan’s priorities are upside down!!!

This is exactly why we need e-vaccine passports. Everyone should be required to show proof of vaccination before boarding a cruise ship!

Huh? Obviously no one learned a thing from last year’s cruise ship fiascos. Why are people getting on a cruise ship and expecting a different result when the country has only started its vaccination program just recently? This is maddening.

I’m confused. Shouldn’t we replace “terror” with “COVID” ?

First things first — vaccinate your citizens as quickly as possible. Instead of “trying” to make the games safe, actually make them safe by pouring all national resources into a rapid vaccination campaign. The Olympics is diverting precious time, energy and money away from the most critical problem in the world for a game few people want.

The fact of the matter is China is well aware of the political theater it is operating in — that the US is the dominant player by far and that the only responses China can make are statements of condemnation and warnings, which the US and Japan ignore as frivolous.

The hard but practical decision would be to cancel the games and divert all logistical efforts and national resources to vaccinating the population as quickly as possible. If preparation for the Olympics is diverting one ounce of focus from vaccinations, cancel the Olympics and focus like a laser to vaccinate people.

"The way the vaccine is handled differs between one country and another. So it cannot be assumed that vaccination will be necessary," Koike said.

Couldn’t Japan make vaccination a requirement for participating athletes? Even though vaccination efforts differ between countries, the virus does not care which country it is in. If drug testing is mandatory for all athletes, so too can vaccination.

More saber rattling and “warnings” are ways China exercises its form of deterrence. The hope is to bark loudly enough that other countries hesitate. This works for most countries but the US views it as nothing more than a cheap tactic to avoid escalation.

If Japan has any hope of holding safe Olympic games in Tokyo this summer, Koike needs to ramp up vaccinations of millions of people in Tokyo a day. And furthermore, utilize e-vaccine certificates to confirm who can enter Tokyo. There is no mention of how Japan will accelerate its vaccinations. There seems to be more effort to hold the high risk Olympic games as is than it is to provide the ultimate solution — vaccinations!

For a country that has a significantly large population of seniors, high technology as a leading first world nation, and a self-proclaimed propensity for societal coordination, Japan should have been able to school the rest of the world on how to deploy COVID vaccines like nobody’s business. Unfortunately, Japan is fumbling the ball and not delivering when it really counts.

This robot is based on models developed at Boston Dynamics, which were in turn originally designed at MIT. Boston Dynamics already has a military version called Big Dog, an intimidating robotic creature that can stalk you like a Terminator.

This technology is not new. BCI became prominent in the 1980s with monkeys controlling robotic arms by way of brain implants connecting into motor neurons. But these are very invasive techniques

The real innovation would be to achieve very accurate control using non-invasive techniques that can read fluctuations in brain wave patterns and control devices in our surrounding environment

We send robots to Mars repeatedly, land humans on the Moon, and 3D print human organs, yet Japan cannot permit a woman to lead the monarchy.

We are not as advanced as we think we are.

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