Florida offers to host Olympics if Tokyo can't do it

florida update wrote:

ages 20 to 60 ... wrote:

Most of those involved in Big Pharma vaccine trials were relatively healthy 20 to 60 year olds. Historically, those over age 75 do not do well with vaccines. This is all one huge experiment. Florida state government is run by a collection of flat earth Q-Anon supporters who do not know their head from their ... . Summer Olympics, 2021 in Florida is an awful idea.

If vaccines don't work then what's your solution? Lockdown forever?

Some U.S. citizens mostly complied with lockdown requests from mid-March through mid-May. It seems as if many U.S. citizens have become psychologically numb and jaded in regard to covid-19.

Covid-19 death rate is as bad as ever in U.S. Mid-14th Century Plague was at its worse by year five. Covid-19 does need to circle the globe for several years for herd immunity.

There have only been officially a small number to test covid-19 positive x 2. A very small number died after testing covid-19 positive twice. I do not believe there is any evidence of a covid-19 patient dying after testing positive for covid-19 x 3. Corona viruses are not novel to humans, just covid-19. After six years, it will be doubtful that covid-19 will be novel to anyone. Covid-19 vaccines or no covid-19 vaccines, this should be 99% over in less than five years from today. We can skip 2020 Summer Olympics. This will pass.

1. The CDC COVID Tracker shows Florida's 7-day average cases peaked Jan 8 and has dropped 40% since then. Virtually unnoticed by the media, Florida now has fewer cases per capita than the majority of other states.

2. Athletes and support staff can all be given priority status for vaccinations. There's plenty of time to do that.

3. The marathon can be held at midnight or moved to a cooler climate... Asheville, NC, for example, is only 90 minutes away by nonstop air.

Of course, the logistics of putting together housing and venues on such short notice is virtually impossible. It takes years to prepare for the Olympics.

If it could be done, I'd LOVE to see the Olympics in Florida. I have a place to stay and it would be awesome to see the best athletes in the world compete without having to stay up to 1am or watch everything on tape delay from Japan.

Florida Man and Florida Woman would welcome the tourists! With their...arms.

Get it?

Undated (AP) _ At least nine foreign visitors have been killed in Florida since last fall. They are:

- Keith Thompson, 42, of Chelmsford, England, was shot and killed Oct. 3, , after refusing to give up his wallet to robbers who accosted him, his wife and two friends outside an Orlando-area motel.

- German tourist Rudi Rohloff, 54, shot to death Dec. 8 while strolling along a quiet street in Fort Myers, in southwest Florida, with his fiance.

- Air Canada executive Marc Nadeau, 33, shot to death in Lake Worth, near Palm Beach, Dec. 29 while walking with his father and son to a store to buy milk.

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- Canadian businessman Ralph Passero, 56, shot when he tried to drive away from an apparent robber outside a restaurant in the Sunny Isles beach area north of Miami on Jan. 22.

- Venezuelan Jesus Alberto Delgado, 47, a diplomat on a stopover in Miami after vacationing at home from his post in Switzerland, shot while being robbed outside a friend’s home on Jan. 26.

- German tourist Jorg Schell, 59, shot to death outside a motel in Homestead, southwest of Miami, just after he and his wife parked their rental car and checked in on March 11.

- Barbara Meller Jensen, 39, of Berlin, killed by robbers April 2 when she, her two children and her mother got lost and strayed off an interstate highway into a northeastern Miami neighborhood.

- Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand, 33, of Adendorf, Germany, shot to death Sept. 8 after his rental car was bumped from behind on a Miami expressway. Ironically, at the time of the attack, his wife was reading a pamphlet advising tourists what action to take when bumped in traffic.

- Gary Colley, 34, of Wilsden, England, killed Tuesday during a robbery attempt at an interstate highway rest stop east of Tallahassee in northern Florida. The woman with him was wounded.

Additionally, Christa Lina Emilie, 67, of Berlin, was accidentally hit and killed by a police car being driven by a rookie officer in New Smyrna Beach on March 29.

Yeah, we get it, you don’t want the olympics to happen. You’ll probably get your wish.

Thanks to him for volunteering to spread the world's variants to Florida on top of the very high viral load we already have. There were four days last week of over 10,000 cases.

Major hurricanes to hit Florida by month on one site:

July 1

August 6

September 19

October 10

However, in July-August, you might well get torrential rains for a week with widespread flooding, which happens twice a summer.

You sound like a clown. COVID definitely isn't helping you not die.

Lol. The cost of the Tokyo Olympics was $12.6B. That's with government support. Where is Florida going to get that kind of money? The U.S. government does not financially support Olympics held in this country, which means organizers must rely on corporate sponsors. This can take years to line up. How could Florida possibly do this in a few months? Perhaps they can get their fantasy President to help them put on their fantasy Olympics.

Somewhere else yes. Florida, no. Enough olympicses in stupidly hot/humid places!

Man Overboard wrote:

Precious Roy wrote:

There were already 9 named storms by the end of July last year.

"Named storms", sure. Serious hurricanes worthy of boarding up buildings that were a mile or more inland....nope. Not happening in July.

During a non-pandemic year, you could roll the dice on having to evacuate an entire OG. But during a pandemic, taking that risk is completely reckless as it would completely bust any effort to bubble the games and expose millions.

There is zero chance you'd have to evacuate central FL in July. Zero. Areas around the coast like Miami, Key West, Tampa...there's a slight, slight possibility. Orlando: zero chance in July.

Sailing could be interesting during stormy season! :P

How is velodrome situation in Florida?

Land hockey venues?

canoe slalom venue?

modern pentathlon venue?

Is there a decent athletics stadium?

You know, just to name a few.

Sorry, can't be done in this short time frame if you don't want to just completely wing it with sub standard venues or significantly reduce number of sports..

Budda wrote:

Man Overboard wrote:

"Named storms", sure. Serious hurricanes worthy of boarding up buildings that were a mile or more inland....nope. Not happening in July.

There is zero chance you'd have to evacuate central FL in July. Zero. Areas around the coast like Miami, Key West, Tampa...there's a slight, slight possibility. Orlando: zero chance in July.

Sailing could be interesting during stormy season! :P

How is velodrome situation in Florida?

Land hockey venues?

canoe slalom venue?

modern pentathlon venue?

Is there a decent athletics stadium?

You know, just to name a few.

Sorry, can't be done in this short time frame if you don't want to just completely wing it with sub standard venues or significantly reduce number of sports..

Wouldn’t winging it with substandard venues be better than having no olympics at all? I’m sure the athletes would rather compete in a substandard arena than just have the whole thing canceled. I also don’t see a whole lot of other countries knocking down the door to host the olympics this year.

energeticlotuseater wrote:

Budda wrote:

Sailing could be interesting during stormy season! :P

How is velodrome situation in Florida?

Land hockey venues?

canoe slalom venue?

modern pentathlon venue?

Is there a decent athletics stadium?

You know, just to name a few.

Sorry, can't be done in this short time frame if you don't want to just completely wing it with sub standard venues or significantly reduce number of sports..

Wouldn’t winging it with substandard venues be better than having no olympics at all? I’m sure the athletes would rather compete in a substandard arena than just have the whole thing canceled. I also don’t see a whole lot of other countries knocking down the door to host the olympics this year.

That depends what you mean by substandard arena I suppose.

Ever seen a river canoe slalom venue?

Lets just say I doubt there is a suitable river in Florida..

A velodrome too needs to be proper or you can just forget about it.

The one in Florida certainly isn't it.

It's not a wooden one and not 250 meter.

Quick search tells me you only have 2 in the US.. (Colorado and L.A)

I suppose there is time to build a provisional one, but I wouldn't leave it for the last second.

Same goes for some of the other venues.

You COULD "wing" arenas in the sense that you wouldn't need spectator and media facilites to be what they normally are, but the actual field/whatever surface they would compete on would have to be up to standard.

I mean these athletes are competing for olympic gold medals after all, some of them like the velodrome cyclists in sports where you count 0,001 of a second, they would need the conditions to be at a certain standard or else it's just a joke.

I suppose if it got spread around more than just Florida it could be reaonably done, but in Florida alone in this short amount of time?

Just can't see it happening.

I think many athletes/countries would ratherskip this cycle than compete in sub-standard and possibly not safte conditions to be fair..

This entire discussion is irrelevant. The world will not participate in an international event of this scale in a country that has more Covid deaths than any other.

Again. This is what they should do.

Cool Colorado Rain wrote:

Disperse the Olympics: track in Tokyo, wrestling in Rome, sailing in Sydney, gymnastics in Orlando, etc.

You're welcome.

Why do track and field athletes feel the need to be pampered with perfect conditions? Competition on a level playing field is all that matters.

#FLORIDALANDOFTHEFREE

Which Florida NFL or collegiate football stadium will put a track inside it ???

I’m not sure but no doubt someone would step up. Hard Rock Stadium could for one. The only thing lost in competition in Florida this year are records, not medals. Nobody is getting a record anyway if there are no games. Seems exciting to change it up a bit and I’d bet the ratings would be through the roof...