Here is an NBC Nightly news segment on the plans for making the Olympics safer: "Olympics Playbook for Safety at Tokyo Games."
And, here are the current COVID statistics for Japan, which for them is a surge — wishing we had their numbers!!
The question for Japan is: Do they want the rest of the world coming to their country and infecting their population? Will the government and economic need to hold the games overcome any health concerns?
I was thinking that they might put all Olympian contestants in a bubble like what was done with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and test, test, test. However, there are thousands of competitors coming from around the world. What variants will be rocking the globe five months from now?
We do know that the vaccination of people around the world will not be accomplished to any significant degree until around 2023.
I expect the measures laid out in the NBC story above to tighten and perhaps the best case is that the athletes compete and we all watch on television with no one in the stands. No big opening ceremony, etc. If that is true, do they delay for one more year or cancel the 2020 Games altogether and move on to 2024?
Trouble, trouble, trouble!
