Do you think Rio Olympics should be postponed / delayed due to Zika virus threat?
Some experts believe it can result into quick spread of zika around the world while others think it can be prevented if proper care is taken. What is your opinion?
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It appears that this upcoming Summer Olympics will be the greatest mass assembly fiasco in the history of the world. The economic catastrophe all by itself might finally put an end to the whole seamy and corrupt Olympic process. My sympathy goes to the ahletes, but the demise of the crooked hyped up seedy Olympic racket is long overdue. Good riddance.
It’s pretty obvious that the Olympic juggernaut is going to carry on to it’s natural conclusion. Disease, pollution and political collapse can’t unspend the billions it cost Brazil to get the Olympics staged there.
Oh, what I wouldn’t give to read the Wiki entry for 2016, circa 2040.
Are we watching the end or rebirth of Western dominance in the world?
Expect it to be outdone by the next FIFA fiasco in Qatar.
Of course not. Not like it is ebola.
No. Do they cancel the Winter Olympics because of the flu? Many years the flu is pandemic at the time of the Olympics. Some years it probably was at least epidemic in places the Olympics were held.
I think if I were a female athlete and there was a possibility I’d be looking to get pregnant in the next few years, I’d be in a bit of a crisis right now.
@jca Is there concern about getting zika and being pregnant in the future? I thought it only effects women who are pregnant. Or, I guess I should say affects the fetus.
from this
“Based on the available evidence, we think that Zika virus infection in a woman who is not pregnant would not pose a risk for birth defects in future pregnancies after the virus has cleared from her blood. From what we know about similar infections, once a person has been infected with Zika virus, he or she is likely to be protected from a future Zika infection.”
@JLeslie: I know there’s a lot of unknown, and I’d be in a quandary right now, that’s all I’m saying.
The Olympic committee should move the games because of Zika, facility unpreparedness, and governmental instability.
They won’t, though.
I would agree with @filmfann that it should be postponed for a wh9le bunch of issues but it won’t. The big deal on Zika is not that many of the athletes may be pregnant, their not. But rather that the virus will be spread throughout the world quickly. Once spread, it won’t go away.
The Rio games should be cancelled, not because of Zika, but of things like poo in the water events.
Who needs Zika? For months, the swimming and diving pools have been flooded with raw sewage. Even if the officials can clear up the problem and sanitize the pools, how could anyone trust those same people who remain in charge?
Don’t forget that the aquatic events have that great raw sewage bonus for participants. I heard this morning that the show is still on despite pleas and warnings aplenty. It’s a bottom line world!
No, typical scaremongering bullshit from overexcited boffins, sit down, shut up & behave yourselves
Zika infection is dangerous primarily to currently pregnant women.
E-coli and other assorted infections from raw sewage in water is FAR MORE dangerous to the greatest number of all people there.
This morning on the news, they’re saying the WHO (World Health Organization) recommends it be moved or postponed due to Zika. Zika will spread throughout the world, they’re saying. Please don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just repeating what they said.
Hey, a good way to thin the herd, let the games begin and if people start dropping like flies, well, so be it.
I think the people(governments and other people in power) who want to take the Olympics away from Brazil are grasping at straws with the Zika thing. Including going to WHO.
@Coloma Cholera is an equal-opportunity illness. It’ll thin any herd indiscriminately.
No. A spray program to kill the mosquitos is sufficient.
@ibstubro Regarding your first post, I think we are. The West has been in decline for decades now, maybe even a century or two. I wonder if people will realise by 2040. But that’s for another thread.
I think 2016 may be some sort of apex for Western civilization, @FireMadeFlesh. The American Empire may have run aground. I’d love a glimpse from the future.
It is not even confirmed that this zika virus causes malformations.“Pyriproxyfen is a growth inhibitor of mosquito larvae, which alters the development process from larva to pupa to adult, thus generating malformations in developing mosquitoes and killing or disabling them.
“Malformations detected in thousands of children from pregnant women living in areas where the Brazilian state added pyriproxyfen to drinking water is not a coincidence, even though the Ministry of Health places a direct blame on Zika virus for this damage, while trying to ignore its responsibility and ruling out the hypothesis of direct and cumulative chemical damage caused by years of endocrine and immunological disruption of the affected population,” .
So it isn’t Zika, it is politics
@sabari Your theory doesn’t explain the spread of the virus in the U. S. and other locations where the only common thread is the mosquito, not the water.
It says “Locally acquired mosquito-borne cases reported: 6”. I don’t see how that supports your theory.
I’m with @YARNLADY on this. I assume they are testing mosquitos. Also, there is sexual transmission, I don’t know if that is always being evaluated when new cases happen.
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