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[The Olympics] Rio 2016! (Maybe)
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You wouldn't go to a restaurant built on a sewer plant processing pond.
If I travel somewhere, and find out my planned lodgings are swarmed with mosquitos, is it 'elitist' to be concerned about catching a disease?
Because if it is, oh well.
I mean, I get that there are plenty of athletes that 'train all their lives' for this kind of thing, and wouldn't say no even if they were going into a warzone to participate.
Which is why, frankly, the countries themselves need to start stepping in and pulling out.
It's not like it hasn't been done before. It's just that instead of world powers having a pissing match, it's "oh jesus this place should be condemned".
Asking individual athletes to do so is ridiculous. And also a collective action problem.
Since when is "I don't want to swim in literal shit" elitist? WTF is this silliness?
It also assumes that the people living there have a choice and wouldn't want to nope the fuck out to a place that is doesn't have sewage water and viruses that cause horrifying birth defects.
ALSO the people living there probably have way better resistances to their local sewage water than people living in cleaner countries. So athletes being worried about going there is probably pretty warranted.
It's definitely in the mentality in question. Brazilians deserve better than that, of course, but the conditions of the water in Rio is closer to the mean of what most people in the world have to deal with, and i feel like the frame of this is coming off that people just want to avoid or ignore the problems of the developing world instead of taking this as a learning moment and a time to call for making things better in a manner that is not, effectively, poor-shaming.
It's a complicated thought, i'll grant.
No, this is fucking silly. It's people saying "I don't want to swim in literal shit". That many people around the world swim in literal shit already is deplorable, not a sign that the people who don't want to do so are elitist.
People don't want to avoid the problems of the developing world, they want to avoid swimming in shit. And think other people should to.
This argument of yours is just getting ridiculous.
Not that plenty of Brazilians don't also get sick.
Does the will exist to be critical of a country that treats people like shit but isn't part of the "them" we've built up as an easy boogeyman enemy? If it does, who do folks believe will actually report on it?
Best case scenario at this point is maybe a whole lot of people don't go to Brazil and Zika doesn't spread quite as far and as fast as feared.
Can't say I blame her.
Now instead of Cold War political boycotts, we get IOC corruption to the point where attending the games is risking your life.
Not sure which is better.
Zika is not a life-threatening disease. You just get kinda sick and then your future children are at a higher risk of microencephalopathy forever. Which sucks (don't get me wrong), but it isn't ebola.
There might be other stuff in the water that would cause more acute sickness, but anyone competing (and let's be honest, any foreign spectators who can afford to go to Rio) will probably have access to medical care to handle it.
Not to mention Brazil had a very public video'd gang rape their police aren't doing shit about. God forbid that happens to a spectator or an athlete during the olympics.
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Corrupt IOC is worse.
I thought it was just a two year danger zone?
I'm not 100% on the latest theories. My most recent check (several months ago) said it could live dormant in the nervous system for longer than they expected, but I don't know if they put an upper bound on that.
Crap! This could get really bad guys, especially if someone upgraded Zika's air transmission already.
Be right back, got to move to Madagascar before they lock down the country because someone in Cuba got a case of the sniffles.
I can sit and watch curling for hours and hours
I am glad to hear this because I thought I was the only one. I love curling, despite never having curled or even spoken to some who has curled. I have to look up the rules every four years because I forget them.
It's almost meditative.
all I know is "put rocks in middle"
this does not diminish my capacity for enjoying it even a tiny bit
You get a point for each stone closer to the centre (and still inside the outer ring) than your opponent's closest stone. That's basically it
There is one other important rule that you can't remove guard rocks (rocks above/in front of the circle) in the first four shots. This is to prevent the winning team from just clearing out the entire sheet with every shot. You probably won't ever notice it unless someone f-s it up, but that's why there are almost always rocks on the sheet, which keeps the game interesting.
Always screaming.
Do they have to scream? Probably not.
But they'll scream anyways.
That's what happens when the official drink of your sport is Tim Hortons coffee.
Those people can party.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
It really does
Someone invented a broom that was considerably more effective at sweeping, and the big professional teams refused to use them and they are banned from competition
It clears the ice, meaning the rocks go further and curl (curve) less.
(Yes, I know sweeping actually makes a massive difference.
That seems a pretty callous point of view, to me.
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Areas where zika is endemic have seen significant increases in microencephalopathy. In the given example, the number for an entire state in Brazil went from 10 to 141. Again, this is bad, but it isn't ebola or a fucking Children of Men "no more babies" apocalypse.
To answer my own question from earlier, the CDC currently believes that women cannot pass zika to future babies once the virus is cleared from their bloodstream. They also go on to say that based on similar viruses, you are likely immune after the first infection.
Which, yeah, it's not Ebola bad. But it's bad, and I certainly can't blame the athletes for not wanting to risk it.
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