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International Olympic Committee member says Tokyo 2020 could face 'cancellation' if coronavirus isn't under control by May Stephen Wade, AP 4 hours ago | https://www.businessinsider.com/tokyo-olympics-coronavirus-control-cancellation-2020-2 Two people wearing masks pass a sign for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on February 18, 2020. Jae C. Hong/AP Images Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the International Olympic Committee said the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo could face "cancellation" because of the fast-spreading coronavirus. Pound said organizers could wait up until May to decide on the fate of the games, which are slated to begin on July 24. Pound said there are too many moving parts to simply change locations or delay the games on such short notice. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. TOKYO (AP) — Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the IOC, estimates there's a three-month window to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, which are being threatened by the fast-spreading virus from China. Pound, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, did not sound alarmist. But he did speak frankly about the risks facing the Olympics, which open July 24. Pound has been an International Olympic Committee member since 1978, 13 years longer than current President Thomas Bach. "You could certainly go to two months out if you had to," Pound said, which would mean putting off a decision until late May and hoping the virus is under control. "A lot of things have to start happening. You've got to start ramping up your security, your food, the Olympic Village, the hotels, The media folks will be in there building their studios." And if it got to the point of not going ahead, Pound speculated "you're probably looking at a cancellation." "This is the new war and you have to face it. In and around that time, I'd say folks are going to have to ask: 'Is this under sufficient control that we can be confident about going to Tokyo, or not?'" China on Tuesday reported 508 new cases and another 71 deaths, 68 of them in the central city of Wuhan, where the epidemic was first detected in December. The updates bring mainland China's totals to 77,658 cases and 2,663 deaths. South Korea now has the second-most cases in the world with 977, including 10 deaths. Clusters of the illness are now appearing in the Middle East and Europe. This could signal a new stage in the spread of the virus with four deaths reported in Japan. Pound encouraged athletes to keep training. About 11,000 are expected for the Olympics, and another 4,400 for the Paralympics, which open on Aug. 25. People wear masks at the Japan Olympic Museum. Jae C. Hong/AP Images "As far as we all know you're going to be in Tokyo," Pound said. "All indications are at this stage that it will be business as usual. So keep focused on your sport and be sure that the IOC is not going to send you into a pandemic situation." The modern Olympics dating from 1896 have only been cancelled during wartime, and faced boycotts in 1976 in Montreal, in 1980 in Moscow and 1984 in Los Angeles — all in Pound's memory. The Olympics in 1940 were to be in Tokyo, but were called off because of Japan's war with China and World War II. Pound called uncertainty a major problem and repeated the IOC's stance — that it's depending on consultations with the World Health Organization, a United Nations body, to make any move. So far, the games are on. "It's a big, big, big decision and you just can't take it until you have reliable facts on which to base it," Pound said. He said whatever advice the IOC is now getting, "it doesn't call for cancellation or postponement of the Olympics. You just don't postpone something on the size and scale of the Olympics. There's so many moving parts, so many countries and different seasons, and competitive seasons, and television seasons. You can't just say, we'll do it in October." If changes have to be made, Pound said every option faced obstacles. Pound said moving to another city seemed unlikely. "To move the place is difficult because there are few places in the world that could think of gearing up facilities in that short time to put something on," Pound said. London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has suggested the British capital as an alternative. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike suggested that was an inappropriate offer, using the virus as political campaign fodder. Pound said he would not favor a dispersal of events over various venues because that wouldn't "constitute an Olympic Games. You'd end up with a series of world championships." He said it would be very difficult to spread around all these sports in a 17-day period with only a few month's notice. Staying in Tokyo but moving it back a few months would be unlikely to satisfy North American broadcasters, whose schedules are full in the fall with American football, college football, European soccer, basketball, baseball, and ice hockey. Of course, other world broadcasters also have jammed schedules. "It would be tough to get the kind of blanket coverage that people expect around the Olympic Games," Pound said. "It's certainly tougher than it would have been in 1964 in Tokyo when you didn't have the saturation sports schedule on television." How about delaying for a year, but staying in Tokyo? Japan is officially spending $12.6 billion to organize the Olympics, although a national audit board says the country is spending twice that much. "Then you have to ask if you can hold the bubble together for an extra year," Pound said. "Then of course you have to fit all of this into the entire international sports schedule." Pound said the IOC has been building up an "emergency fund" for such circumstances, reported to be about $1 billion. That could fund international sports federations who depend on income from the IOC to operate — and the IOC itself. "This would be what you normally call a force majeure," said Pound, a Canadian lawyer by training, using the legal phrase for "unforeseeable circumstances." "It's not an insurable risk and it's not one that can be attributed to one or the other of the parties. So everybody takes their lumps. There would be a lack of revenue on the Olympic Movement side." He said broadcasters may have their own insurance that would "mitigate some of the losses." About 73% of the IOC's $5.7 billion income in a four-year Olympic cycle is from broadcast rights. Pound said the future of the Tokyo Games was largely out of the IOC's hands, depending on the virus and if it abets. "If it gets to be something like the Spanish Flu," Pound said, referring to a deadly pandemic early in the 20th century that killed millions. "At that level of lethality, then everybody's got to take their medicine." *** China destroying, disinfecting currency amid coronavirus ... www.foxbusiness.com › money › coronavirus-china-yuan-destroy-curre... Feb 17, 2020 - China is disinfecting and even reportedly destroying currency to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus. ... Guangzhou is south of Hubei province, where the coronavirus outbreak is most concentrated. The bank branch will destroy all banknotes from hospitals, farmers markets and ... *** Edited to add: Personally, I hate hearing about what the stock market is doing. I believe that it is greatly manipulated. The market had record highs again last week and has dropped unbelievably in the past two days. I just keep thinking of the Astros latest scandal in which they were able to tell their batters what pitch was coming next and I can't help but wonder if this is what we are witnessing (in part) in relation to the stock market. It was inflated last week (etc) and these past two days it is down quite a bit, so as long as you know in advance "what pitch is coming at you" you can still make money. Not us, of course, but those who are "in the know". New York Post Four-star Spanish hotel placed on lockdown after Italian guest tests positive for coronavirus A four-star hotel in the Spanish island of Tenerife has been placed on lockdown after an Italian doctor who had been vacationing there tested ... 7 hours ago
This virus is just like the Spanish Flu of 1918. It is a double attack thing. You get it once and it is mild. Then you get it again and it is much , much stronger. I still suspect it is a bio weapon , possibly derived from the original 1918 strain; which was exactly the same in it's double attack form. The first mild; the second the killer. If I'm right the second dose kills the young. Usually the build up of anti bodies produces immunity, in this case the antibody build up actually weakens the immune system to the next wave attack. Paradoxically,the stronger and healthier the body; the more at risk it is, because the more anti bodies are produced.. Just like a 1918 rerun. People are deriving statistical analysis from the first wave attack. The relatively benign initial form. I hope I am wrong. Its a bit like a boxer who punches lightly with one hand then gives the sucker punch with the other. The bottom line is that this virus uses your own immune system against you.
Just got these screen shots sent to me don't know if the book is genuine but makes very interesting reading
Carol said: Personally, I hate hearing about what the stock market is doing. I believe that it is greatly manipulated. The market had record highs again last week and has dropped unbelievably in the past two days. I just keep thinking of the Astros latest scandal in which they were able to tell their batters what pitch was coming next and I can't help but wonder if this is what we are witnessing (in part) in relation to the stock market. It was inflated last week (etc) and these past two days it is down quite a bit, so as long as you know in advance "what pitch is coming at you" you can still make money. Not us, of course, but those who are "in the know". Didn't Martha Stewart go to prison for "insider trading'?
Sadly this virus appears to last for up to nine hours outside the human host. A very,very long time indeed. So it is very much worse. Also there is very good evidence that some human demons are spreading it quite intentionally. Go figure.
Proper researcher -- and author -- Koontz had done his homework -- 2020 -- is 101 years from the Spanish flu pandemic -- We have these pandemics approximately every 100 years or so -- Wuhan was known as the centre of biological development in China --
I have not come across canned milk in Ireland but since realised one of our neighbours have many dairy cows, surely they would barter me some of my tea bags for a nice bucket of milk.
Right there with you Carol. For the average person we are told to put money into mutual and index funds and simply don't touch it until retirement. Meanwhile, banks and hedge funds are manipulating the markets and creating bubbles which invariably pop and leave the average person holding the bag right often when they need the money they have saved their entire lives and now is devalued. It's a ponzi scheme and one that only insiders generally win.
Though the form of the double attack may prove to be similar, it’s a completely different family of unrelated virus, so no possibility of it being derivative.
Most of these type of viruses weaken in the summer months in the northern hemisphere so the next 3 months are when we will be hit hardest. Assuming of course that this corona virus "behaves" like previous outbreaks.
I mentioned this back on February 12. A Christian YouTube news channel called TruNews had mentioned it in one of their videos: Mentioned in the TruNews video above, Dean Koontz wrote a novel in 1981, about a viral pandemic that started in China and had a 100% mortality rate. He called it the “Wuhan 400,” the 400th bioweapon produced by China’s bioweapon lab in Wuhan. That lab wasn’t built till several years ago. It didn’t even exist yet when he wrote the book in 1981. View attachment 11962 Interestingly, Koontz knows some of the Norbertines at my son’s abbey in California. I’ve exchanged letters with him several times, in which he told me about his close friendship with several of the Norbertines there; He told me the abbey is the primary beneficiary of his estate.
Singapore has tropical type weather, warm and humid, and there’s no evidence this has slowed the spread of the virus there unfortunately. This virus has all the makings of a “perfect storm,” and full blown global pandemics average once every hundred years. The last one was the 1918 Swine Flu pandemic.
He may have had a prophetic gift in the writing of it. Look at The Lord of the World. How many things the author got right.
