Asa
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Exactly but it may take some time.The vaccine campaign needs to get going!
Exactly but it may take some time.The vaccine campaign needs to get going!
~230 days to be accurate given the current 1 million shots per day since January 14, 2021 and the supposed 75% of the US population that need to be vaccinated to get to herd immunity.Exactly but it may take some time.
Due to Covid-19, the Japanese government has privately chosen to cancel the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan looks for a way out of Tokyo Olympics because of Covid
The Japanese government has privately concluded that the Tokyo Olympics will have to be cancelled because of the coronavirus, and the focus is now on securingwww.thetimes.co.uk
17 million was the reported total since ~1 million shots/day a week ago.Some news reports I've read say that, for the last week, around 1 million doses have been given per day across the nation (that's been that way for the last week - states have really ramped up in the last few days).....so I'd say 100 million doses in 100 days is certainly possible.
I think there's two options for the Tokyo Olympics in order to avoid a possible cancellation: It will go on but behind closed doors or postpone it to next year, making the first time to have both the main Summer and Winter Olympics held in the same year since 1992.No, per your link, they're looking to see if they can get out of hosting it.
But per this link, that's not true:
Japan and IOC determined to hold Tokyo Olympics despite cancellation rumors
Reports of this summer's Tokyo Olympic Games being canceled due to Covid-19 are "categorically untrue", the International Olympic Committee said in a statement to CNN on Friday.www.cnn.com
Maybe some Japanese govt. officials were wanting out of it....but I don't think they would cancel it again, the most they would do is delay it again. When you agree to host the Olympics, you need to follow through and do your part, but they won't cancel it.
I remember the complaints about Rio De Janeiro leading up to 2016, about unsafe conditions in the City near the Olympics, and poor drinking/bathing water and the housing for the athletes being hastily built, but they didn't move the Olympics. (the comparison is not about the delay in response to Covid, but to the Olympics Committee not changing the location and moving it elsewhere)
Frankly, we've learned so much about the virus in the last year, the people attending understand the conditions....I think the world needs these Olympics and they will hold them. Especially as vaccines continue to roll out in distribution.
ironic since that year has the 2 at the end and next year is 2022 so 30th anniversary of having summer and Winter Olympics in that yearI think there's two options for the Tokyo Olympics in order to avoid a possible cancellation: It will go on but behind closed doors or postpone it to next year, making the first time to have both the main Summer and Winter Olympics held in the same year since 1992.
I think there's two options for the Tokyo Olympics in order to avoid a possible cancellation: It will go on but behind closed doors or postpone it to next year, making the first time to have both the main Summer and Winter Olympics held in the same year since 1992.
As long as the hiatus doesn't last 1593 years like last timeThey're not going to cancel it. As you and others have said, the most they'll do is postpone it again.
If they do push the Olympics back another year (to 2022), and hold both Summer and Winter games then, it'll be awkward to hold the Summer Olympics of 2024 just 2 years later.
In 1992, they held both the Summer and Winter Olympics, but then in 1994 they did a Winter Olympics, so that was 2 years between Winter events....this would be 2 years between Summer events.
But I don't think they'll push this year's Olympics back another year.
Always better to double-up on them. As well as Face shields.Cloth masks aren't cutting it anymore.
Well isn’t that a fine kettle of fish.Cloth masks aren't cutting it anymore.