Most Japanese: 'FUCK THE OLYMPICS'

[matsuki]

Finding a hotel room for a local is difficult enough, finding one for the 2020 "maybe in 2021 Olympics" while you're overseas and aren't sure about event tickets, airline tickets, immigration restrictions...LOL! Reminds me of most Japanese business decisions....indecisive til the deadline and then demand the unreasonable when you've put the situation into a hole for no reason. Good luck attracting all those tourists! I wonder if an influx of furriners would trigger a mass exodus of locals out of Tokyo?

[Grumpy Gramps]

I wonder if an influx of furriners would trigger a mass exodus of locals out of Tokyo?

Inverse flyjin?

[matsuki]

I wonder if an influx of furriners would trigger a mass exodus of locals out of Tokyo?

Inverse flyjin?

[s]ゴッジッラ～～～！[/s]　ザッ外人！！！

[Taro Toporific]

With luck, they will just give up and cancel all this horseshit.

Over half of firms in Japan want Olympics canceled or postponed, survey shows
The Japan Tines / Reuters | Feb 15, 2021
Over half of firms in Japan believe the Tokyo Olympic Games should be canceled or postponed, a survey by think tank Tokyo Shoko Research showed
Monday, casting further doubt over the fate of the troubled Games.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has vowed to put conditions in place to host the once-postponed Summer Olympics from July 23, but the nation is struggling to contain the novel coronavirus and has lagged behind western countries in rolling out vaccines.
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Protesters call for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games to be cancelled,
during a rally Friday in front of the offices of the
Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. | REUTERS

[Buraku]

Japan Discovers New Coronavirus Variant

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news ... us-variant

Prefectural governor in Japan wants 2021 Olympics and torch relay cancelled, Tokyo not pleased.

https://soranews24.com/2021/02/21/prefe ... t-pleased/

[Coligny]

Yes virus mutate...
don’t check the cartoon section of the first link. It hurts the brain...

Also... MOAR CONTAGIOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!
You mean more contagious that took over the whole fracking planet in few weeks ?
What kind of tachometer do you use for measuring ?

[Grumpy Gramps]

What kind of tachometer do you use for measuring ?

Depending on how contagious this variant is, probably fatalities per minute, per second, per millisecond, or per microsecond, whatever makes the prettiest charts.

[Coligny]

Ok, so "library of congress" per squared "football fields" divided by your mom's ass...

[matsuki]

With luck, they will just give up and cancel all this horseshit.

At some point they're going to have to come to the conclusion that opening the floodgates to foreign tourists isn't only a bad idea, they will lose face if they try to and only a trickle of them show up. Bubble Olympics with no/limited fans is the only reasonable solution besides cancellation.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Also, who would want to come to Japan, when we are not vaccinated?

[matsuki]

Also, who would want to come to Japan, when we are not vaccinated?

My current flavor is a doctor here and she is not yet vaccinated.
On the "registered to be vaccinated" wait list. All her colleagues in the US/Canada/etc. have been vaccinated for weeks/months. It's those racist?nationalistic?non-tarrif trade barrier? "We Japanese" testing requirements.

...and no hotels are available. Imagine the world fixated on Tokyo 20201 and some independent hotels refuse to accept foreigners Super, you love cuntry, nambaaa wan!

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Hastily bashed together The Official IOC Olympics Website. https://tokyo2020olympics7.wixsite.com/olympics

Fuck knows why theres a "7" in the URLFFS

[matsuki]

Japan began in starburst around 800,000 BC. It is first known habitation of world population. Predating 3rd transfiguration of Christ. This was followed from around 714,000 BC by paleolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer culture characterized by introduction of bukkake [12] and free rape in tinpot huts. [21] Glazed kiln semen pottery from this period is oldest surviving example of pottery in the world. Around 330,300 BC, Japan people invented rice farming, [23] more semen pottery, [24] and hierachal workplace bullying. [25]

The Hentai period (22,710 BC–1673) marked the emergence of a strong Japanese culture centered on stickfigure rape comic books and lithographic upskirt etchings. {18}

This marked beginning of Tsukebe period (1673-present), during which supremely homogenous [6] Japanese culture emerged, noted for its bullying, general unhappiness and yes, snot soup. [308]

[Buraku]

More than 75% of Japanese don't want foreign fans at Olympics: poll

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... mpics-poll

[matsuki]

JAPANESE ONLY! NO GAIJIN PLEASE! SORRY! THIS IS NOT DISCRIMINATION! SORRY!

[Taro Toporific]

I love this:
The Tokyo Olympics shop is closing even before the Games begin.

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via Brian_Ashcraft

[omae mona]

I love this:
The Tokyo Olympics shop is closing even before the Games begin.

It's because they had an extra year, so everybody who wanted to buy olympic items has already bought to their heart's content! Personally I've bought one of every item already, like my paralympics tambourine.

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What's left to buy?

To be fair, it appears the other stores mostly remain open.. I have a feeling the one shutting permanently on 3/21 is just the Fuchu branch (click here for the exciting chart of all your remaining shopping opportunities)

[matsuki]

The one in my local mall consistently has more staff than customers. What a fuggin joke....

[Buraku]

Tokyo Olympics: Poll reveals 72% of Japanese public want Games CANCELLED or postponed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sport ... poned.html

[Coligny]

Tokyo Olympics: Poll reveals 72% of Japanese public want Games CANCELLED or postponed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sport ... poned.html

That's a lot of people to still give a frack aboot it tbh...

I'll bet the 28% remaining are just not aware the 2020 olympic are still a "thing"

[Buraku]

Sheeeeeeeiiit!? Athletes who take a Gibs knee for Wakanda or raise a fist in protest at Tokyo Olympics will face punishment says IOC

https://www.theblaze.com/news/athletes- ... shment-ioc
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sport ... 46284.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sport ... mpics.html
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spo ... 194663.cms
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/taking-knee ... 08794.html
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/202 ... s-protest/

international multicultural coalition must be incredibly waycisss

[Buraku]

Tokyo Games need 500 nurses; nurses say needs are elsewhere

https://apnews.com/article/

[Grumpy Gramps]

Yep, we need them nurses for those juicy videos. Can't divert them to anything else.

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Mid-June IOC public statement prediction:

"Due to the host nations lack of urgency in regards to adminstering Covid 19 vaccines, and their inability to get even 2% of their own citizens inoculated, we the IOC have been left with no recourse other than to cancel the 2020 Olympic Games. To the Japanese government, you have only yourselves to blame you lazy, old, deluded, mentally-hamstrung clutch of fucking dickheads".

[Grumpy Gramps]

So one group of lazy, old, deluded, mentally-hamstrung clutch of fucking dickheads calls another group of lazy, old, deluded, mentally-hamstrung clutch of fucking dickheads "lazy, old, deluded, mentally-hamstrung clutch of fucking dickheads?"

Makes sense.

[Marked Trail]

Tokyo Games need 500 nurses; nurses say needs are elsewhere
https://apnews.com/article/

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Tokyo hospital posts messages on windows: ‘Stop Olympics’
Asahi.com | May 7, 2021 at 17:58 JST
For Masaya Takahashi, whose hospital is under strain from COVID-19 patients, the last straw came when he heard the government was calling for doctors and nurses to volunteer for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
So, the head of Tachikawa Sogo Hospital, in Tokyo’s Tachikawa, posted messages on his windows, saying enough is enough.
“Medical capacity has reached its limits. Stop the Olympics!” one sign says. Another pleads, “Give us a break. The Olympics are impossible!”
The hospital, which has been accepting COVID-19 patients, decided to publicly express its concerns that the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics might spread infections further while medical capacity is overstretched due to surging cases.
When The Asahi Shimbun asked Takahashi for an interview, he replied in writing.
He said that, “he needed to send some messages as the hospital head” and posted the signs on the windows on April 30.
“It pains me to do this whenever I think of athletes making unimaginable efforts and Olympic staff working hard to hold it,” Takahashi said.
However, he pointed out as the Olympics could cause the virus to spread further, “I have no choice but to oppose it.”
According to Takahashi, the hospital, which has 287 beds and 90 doctors, has been accepting COVID-19 patients since April 2020. It changed one of its five general wards into a dedicated ward.
The 47 beds of the former general ward were reduced to 26.
A total of three beds in the intensive care unit (ICU) and high care unit (HCU) had been used for treating COVID-19 patients in serious condition.
However, due to a massive “fourth wave,” the hospital decided to use all 16 beds in the HCU for COVID-19 patients on May 7.
But to do that, the hospital needed to place patients who underwent surgeries and were supposed to stay at HCUs in general wards along with patients with dementia and other illnesses.
“The burden of nurses to avoid risks will exceed their limits,” Takahashi said.
The rate of accepting requests from ambulances to accept their patients dropped from 80 percent between January and March in 2020 to 55 percent for the same period in 2021.
While no one knows when the coronavirus pandemic will be contained, there are few nurses who want to join the hospital staff.
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[Taro Toporific]

So one group of lazy, old, deluded, mentally-hamstrung clutch of fucking dickheads calls another group of lazy, old, deluded, mentally-hamstrung clutch of fucking dickheads "lazy, old, deluded, mentally-hamstrung clutch of fucking dickheads?"
Makes sense.

Jake Adelstein/中本哲史
@jakeadelstein (on Twitter)
In the interview with The BBC, I said that if the IOC had any human decency they would cancel the Olympics on their own, but considering they will host the games in a country that is committing genocide, we know the IOC has no decency.
The JOC: as bad.
Click for BBC video.

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Petition! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/ ... -petition/

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[Buraku]

How much money was lost? already postponed for a year??


Tokyo Olympics: Thousands demand games cancelled as Japan extends COVID state of emergency
https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-de ... d-12299213

As Olympics near, Japan extends a state of emergency in Tokyo due to COVID-19

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/o ... 986103001/

[Buraku]

Petition to cancel Tokyo Olympics reaches 350,000 signatures

https://globalnews.ca/news/7862079/toky ... cel-covid/

[matsuki]

Not so sure a "no spectator" Olympics would be as bad as the claims are and they could still pull off the Televized portion, where the real money is. That being said, not so sure the JOC will go for that. Personally, I'd rather they postpone to 2022 to buy time for global vaccinations or just cancel if flat out.