Why would a country like Japan, who is recording more than 5,000 new cases of Covid-19 daily, has areas of the country under “emergency” due to the ever increasing of Covid-19 cases, is running at only 20% of its Covid-19 vaccination plan, and is struggling to find hospital beds for critical patients with the virus, be prepared to put the holding of a sports event over the care and safety of its own citizens?
Indeed, why would the Japanese government and the Japanese people want to have thousands of athletes, coaches and officials who may just have Covid-19, come into the country, spead the virus and the ever increasing more dangerous varients throughout the local population, and possibly put the health system, the hospitals and the already exhausted doctors and nurses under further stress.
Why would countries like Australia, Taiwan, and Vietnam, who have almost conquered Covid-19, want to send athletes to Japan for a sporting event, and have these athletes possibly get Covid-19, be it from other athletes or from a local spectator, volunteer, bus or taxi driver, or restaurant worker, and then take the virus back to their home countries and have it spread there?
Why would countries like Brazil and India, who are struggling to cope with Covid-19, do not have enough oxygen and ventilators for those who are fighting the virus, cannot find enough space for cremation and burial of those who have lost the fight against this virus, be prepared to spend the money urgently needed on the health and well-being of thier citizens, on sending athletes to Japan for what is nothing more than non-essential sporting event?
Why would a global sporting body like the IOC put profits from broadcasting rights ahead of caring for every global citizen during the worst pandemic the world has seen for 100 years?
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