Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by heartbeats on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:29AM (#22424451)

Yeah, but if 2% of all the Chinese die that's going to mess their economy up real good. Considering the whole thing is a house of cards, I'm bullish on the coronavirus.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by whoevercares on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:47AM (#22424676)

For the virus the biggest challenge is if it survives the weather. If it’s in the same family as SARS, summer will kill it. The window is closing and My bet is it won’t have chance to infect more than 1M people within China. Btw I think 1M infected Chineses are bad enough to bring the economy down seriously, let alone 2% died of the whole population (280M dead people? Oh lord)

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by mishac on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:06PM (#22425528)

that would be 28M, not 280M (Which is still a huge number, obviously)

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