They really can't, the amount of money spent on the venue is too high and the outcry would fill oceans.
They really can't, the amount of money spent on the venue is too high and the outcry would fill oceans.
Well the Zika virus is not really dangerous for normal healthy people and the disease usually runs its course withing a week or so. It's pregnant women that really needs to avoid zika-rich areas since the virus can cause birth defects.
But the disease is usually not dangerous to healthy adults. As long as you are not pregnant when you get infected you should be fine, and most of the people who are having wild sex during the Olympics are not trying to get pregnant. If you get infected it usually only lasts a week or so.
Last edited by zephid; 2016-05-15 at 01:17 AM.
Hmmm.... zika virus... olypmics... calling it now, 2017, year of the zombie apocalypse.
Very amusing that this is the first thing you jumped to.
OT: too late now, too much money to lose. But yeah, ideally the Olympics wouldn't be held there until they can sort their shit out. They probably shouldn't have been allowed to host in the first place, to be honest.
Last edited by mmoc4359933d3d; 2016-05-15 at 01:21 AM.
You shouldn't. You basically just displayed your ignorance of several very real issues for everyone to see. Then again, what should one expect from somebody that thinks criticism of a country must be related to the ethnicity of those being criticized?
Personally, I would be embarrassed to have jumped to such a conclusion.
Last edited by mmoc4359933d3d; 2016-05-15 at 01:36 AM.
Dude, we are not fucking ready and it was obvious we wouldn't be since before the coup. In 2013 there were GIANT protests against both events. Just to make things worse, we're going throug a "political, economical, social, ethical, everything" crisis since late 2014/early 2015, there's the big zika problem going on and we've just impeached our lazy, corrupt, useless "presidenta".
Didn't they just oust their president by force? Seems like not such a happy place to visit for the olypics.
Well, I never watch, so in that sense, it makes no difference to me....
However, I read that the water is so polluted that athletes don't want to be on / in / or drink the water. Then of course, it is just in one of the nastiest cities that exists for crime.... and no way in hell do I think they could have enough security to keep people safe.
So yeah, it was stupid to even let them have it. I would cancel it just from what I stated, but I bet there are dozens of other reasons too.
It's not as simple as just canceling it though. The monetary value of the venue alone /shudder. Plus tickets, flights, hotels, everything has already been purchased and much of that is non-refundable. It'd just be a shitshow to cancel so they won't.
Edit: Not to mention pre-scheduled time off work.
Last edited by Onikaroshi; 2016-05-15 at 02:43 AM.
LOOOOOOOOOOL no, Brazil is a latin-american country, they are different.
Japan n South Korea are western countries now!? Their have adopted some stuff, but "westernized" is a very vague term, their mentality is not very Western. You are throwing terms around n trying to make them stick. You could argue that basically the whole world is Western cuz it's "westernized" to some degree.