Logical insanity: Tokyo 2021 organizers will bar athletes from hugging or shaking hands but will give them 150,000 free condoms

follow the science wrote:

For the last year, I've been hearing people say "Follow the science." It's stories like this - or Cuomo deciding to open up football games for fans only when the Bills made the playoffs - that remind me that the "science" is whatever those in charge want it to be.

I'll let you in on a secret, shhhhhh....people on the same team actually bonk each other a lot.

shhhh ok?

Condoms???

Why?????????????

Not all you guys acting like if you were locked up in some compound with a couple thousand of the worlds most gifted athletes you wouldn't be temped

No hugs/handshakes is idiotic

I'm actually puzzled by their decision regarding condoms. Wouldn't it be in the Olympics' best interest to encourage the conception of as many super-athletes as possible? World records would fall a lot quicker and the entertainment value for spectators would just keep getting better. It could become a self-sustaining venture.

They all go crazy after their events are over... and sometimes, before!

150,000 condoms? That’s a quite lot for one person. Can you imagine the questions as you proceed through customs (Do you have anything to declare?). And then TSA?

i shag 20 to 30 different people a day, but only shake hands with people rarely and if i know them very well.

Follow the science? Follow the sponsorship money more like

Very basic stuff - as with most seemingly illogical decisions around COVID it’s demagoguery vs reality, predominantly driven from social media and the resulting mindsets.

you can still fill them with red wine and throw them at mean people

Sham 69 wrote:

Condoms???

Why?????????????

I know you're LRBF but you really should get out of your comfort zone and google things you don't understand at all, whether by education or by experience.

it is good science. 1. limit physical contact (current covid science). 2. realize that they are going to bang one another so have condoms available (that would be the psychology science bit)

telling people to abstain don't work, never has.

lkjh wrote:

it is good science. 1. limit physical contact (current covid science). 2. realize that they are going to bang one another so have condoms available (that would be the psychology science bit)

telling people to abstain don't work, never has.

Can't tell if this is facetious but...no. Kind of like...

1. Everybody wear face diapers (even though long term wearing increases likelihood of getting an upper respiratory infection via respiratory acidosis or hypercapnia) and stay "x" feet apart. Ignore the ADA and HIPPA laws. Pass emergency rulings to exempt dictatorial politicians from being sued.

2. Virus "dies" after "x" seconds in sunlight but: Nobody on the beach! Nobody on playground equipment! Nobody gets to do anything until your want-to-be overlords totally obliterate your "normal" way of life and you willingly submit to big pharmaceuticals vision of genetic utopia.

4. Nobody can work without a bunch of expensive new policies to abide by! But when we say it's okay we'll pass out nitrile gloves, face shields, etc so you can return to your shattered lives courtesy of tyrannical perverts to resume paying off the high taxes we'll now impose on everyone.

5. So on and so forth logical absurdities and tautologies.

Who needs professional sports except those who cannot fathom a world without constant entertainment and vicarious group identification hobbies...? I think the athletes ought to hold their own backyard Olympics like kids do growing up.

To the poster who said that whoever is in charge dictates the science...yes. 100% yes. Researchers live for grant money so they'll torture any data to make it say what their benefactors desire.

Gee, I wonder why...

Duhh!!

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Did u know that gay baths are open and they have rules that says you have to wear masks.

Olympic village condoms are keepsakes for the athletes

residentgay wrote:

Did u know that gay baths are open and they have rules that says you have to wear masks.

I am not sure that's much to do with covid tho

Maybe olympic athletes just have 6ft+ long members

You control what you can control, I guess.