Cancel this year's olympics?

[Nanaboostme]

As much as we need the Olympics to remind us of embracing with everything that's been going on, it seems like a hell of a bad idea that it hasn't been postponed for several other factors.

[Belize]

Uh.

What several other factors? Scary brown people?

[Spectral]

I have absolutely no idea why you think the Olympics should be canceled. Using the term "several other factors" is some MBA level indecipherability.

[IIamaKing]

I mean from my chair, you could cancel em all, forever. I never watch the things.

[Daedius]

Should never have been hosted in Brazil... but I look forward to the crime statistics committed to visitors during it, be it murder, muggings, etc... seeing how dirt there literally has more value than human life... nevermind the amount of people that lost their homes without compensation to develop the area - corruption at its finest.

[Omians]

Uh.

What several other factors? Scary brown people?

i think the large one was the zeeka Virus going about

[Deletedaccount1]

Yes it should be cancelled. Hopefully it would teach the idiots on the Olympic committee a lesson. It is going to be a horrible embarrassment.

Letting third world countries host the Olympics is honestly the most stupid thing I've ever seen. Especially when prepared host cities like Tokyo go through a ton of measures to make the Olympics as good as possible. It is just ridiculous.

[Deleted]

For reasons i won't mention here i think you should elaborate on your position.

[glo]

Uh.

What several other factors? Scary brown people?

Zika virus, the recent uptick in violence, protest and kidnappings, undrinkable water, etc. It's not a good area. Hell, even one of the country's most popular soccer players came out and said travelers need to avoid it: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/11/sp...016/index.html

[Deletedaccount1]

Uh.

What several other factors? Scary brown people?

Possible spreading of the Zika virus, the fact that the water in Rio is 20% liquid shit, Brazil's political instability, bad infrastructure, crime, lack of space, the wasted tax dollars.

[Bathory]

Uh.

What several other factors? Scary brown people?

No, Zika. Makes sense. Think of a disease happening rapidly in a country. Now imagine that within that country, they are hosting one of the biggest international gatherings in the world. Mosquitoes and now sexual transmission is possible. Think of how much Zika will be carried to different areas of the world.

[TirielWoW]

Yes it should be cancelled. Hopefully it would teach the idiots on the Olympic committee a lesson. It is going to be a horrible embarrassment.

Letting third world countries host the Olympics is honestly the most stupid thing I've ever seen. Especially when prepared host cities like Tokyo go through a ton of measures to make the Olympics as good as possible. It is just ridiculous.

I feel like a lot of the issues in this case are very specific to Brazil, though.

[Macaquerie]

They should just cancel the Olympics period. Pretty much all of the sports are events that nobody would ever give a crap about unless nationalistic dick waving were somehow involved, and just the degree of cheating, institutional corruption, and other unsavory behavior is off the charts.

[GennGreymane]

I can see why and I can see why not

So undecided

[Damajin]

Yeah.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7024146.html

Rio Olympics could spark 'full blown global health disaster', say Harvard scientists

The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro could spark a “full-blown public health disaster”, doctors have warned.

Since the Zika virus was first identified in Brazil in May 2015, the disease's spread through Latin America has been declared a health emergency by the World Health Organisation and the number of suspected cases in Rio is the highest of any state in the country.

The continued presence of the virus ahead of the summer Olympics has caused athletes and health specialists to question the risks involved in allowing the Games to go ahead with hundreds of thousands of spectators travelling to the city.

Writing in the Harvard Public Health Review, Dr Amir Attaran said the Games could speed up the spread of the virus, and suggested the Games could be hosted by another city in Brazil where the illness is less of a threat.

He said: “While Brazil's Zika inevitably will spread globally, given enough time, viruses always do - it helps nobody to speed that up.

"In particular, it cannot possibly help when an estimated 500,000 foreign tourists flock into Rio for the Games, potentially becoming infected, and returning to their homes where both local Aedes mosquitoes and sexual transmission can establish new outbreaks.

“All it takes is one infected traveller, a few viral introductions of that kind, in a few countries, or maybe continents, would make a full-blown global health disaster.”

With less than three months to go until the Games begin on 5 August, it is unlikely the continued presence of the virus will cause officials to take drastic action.

However, the warning will be yet another blow to Brazilian authorities, which are already mired in a string of controversies that have undermined confidence in the country’s ability to host the Olympics.

Brazil is currently grappling with steep economic decline, while a continuing presidential impeachment attempt alongside the country’s largest ever corruption scandal has caused national outrage.

Elsewhere, severe water pollution problems, the collapse of a new cycle path resulting in the death of two people and frightening reports of gang violence in upmarket shopping areas have fuelled scepticism about the suitability of Rio to host the Games.

[Hooked]

Yeah they should cancel it, otherwise they will spread zika virus to all of us along with god knows what else.

[Ariselea]

This is like Kingsmen stuff. World authorities looking to purge off a large chunk of earths population.
Illuminati/Halo 3/new Tool album confirmed.

[PACOX]

No.

Everything is always last minute and its too late to complain about anything at this point except to sit on some sort of moral high horse.

[Rudkobing]

It never is a good time.

[Luxxor]

Uh.

What several other factors? Scary brown people?

Aint no rest for the triggered!