Coronavirus and the Olympics

[notimp]

Are you retarded? How are Olympics a waste of money when it brings in MILLIONS of tourists, often more than a dozen million even, regardless of if they plan to attend or not? Do you even understand how much money that brings in for the local economy?

Not enough. Ask Putin. Or the CFR.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/economics-hosting-olympic-games

Olympic tourism also ist the tourism you want. (Doesnt leave much money in your country, produces higher costs, ends after a short spike.)

 

[ThoD]

Not enough. Ask Putin. Or the CFR.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/economics-hosting-olympic-games

Olympic tourism also ist the tourism you want. (Doesnt leave much money in your country, produces higher costs, ends after a short spike.)

Yeah, the problem is that those "studies" use as point of reference cases where all facilities built for the Olympics are just neglected, if they keep using them and do things smartly in general, then there are no issues. As for the "spike" then decrease of income from them, if you plan things properly like countries did up until the 2012 ones, then you won't lose more than you gain. It's just that the Rio Olympics were stupidly and badly planned out, they went for flashiness but not longevity of what they built, so they don't even use the facilities anymore for stuff like normal athletics, it's literally just sitting there.

 

[notimp]

(Check to see what the CFR is.. )

If you go for longevity - you didnt win the pitch. (In the past.)

What olympic games became in the past decades was a way to bribe yourself into good standing at the international stage, and give money to yourself and usually also the local elite, through infrastructure building. (Especially in countries that never hosted before, or didn't host in a long time, so that dindt have the general infrastructure, nor facilities) Those contracts were very valuable. You could then also go to your population and tell them, that you were someone in this world - which they usually like.

Facilities are neglected, because they cost multiple 10s of million USD in upkeep a year.

Read this:
https://www.businessinsider.com/future-olympics-no-country-wants-to-host-games-2018-2?r=DE&IR=T

 

[notimp]

An austrian biotech company (Procomcure) has just produced the first quick test for the corona virus. You need laboratory facilities still, but testing is now possible within half an hour.

Product is called PhoenixDx COVID-19 (Detection Kit). In case you run a state.

 

[AsPika2219]

Tokyo Olyimpic was delayed into...

July 23, 2021

... due to coronavirus attacks!

 

[clippingpathca]

What are your thoughts about this latent and pretty much unavoidable mix?

I personally think that this is when it'll be treated as a global pandemic. And we'll probably witness lots of cases of racism towards asian athletes. Ultimately the games will suffer from all of these symptoms and I'm not sure what else could happen... but it won't be fun.

Probably... healthy athletes will get the infection and when they return to their homelands, there will be a global outbrake and probably, the virus will have a mutation during those times.

Yeah, I agree with you