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Brazil Olympics 2016

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maddogchen said:
all these olympics fans will be traveling to the Zika hotspot and then spreading it all over the world when they return home.
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I was wondering if this has ever been used as a movie plot. It would be a good way to spread a virus. Imagine the inflatable drone floating silently over the Olympic village, over the stadiums, releasing a fine viral mist. A month later the symptoms erupt in nearly every country. Bam, post apocalyptic thriller.
 
twinrider1 said:
I was wondering if this has ever been used as a movie plot. It would be a good way to spread a virus. Imagine the inflatable drone floating silently over the Olympic village, over the stadiums, releasing a fine viral mist. A month later the symptoms erupt in nearly every country. Bam, post apocalyptic thriller.
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Tom Clancy's novel Rainbow Six covered this.
 
vi edit said:
Doping is one thing. But the level of extremes they went to creating the system to cover it up is some serious cloak and dagger shit. Now we know what they've repurposed all those old KGB agents for.

Go read the info coming out about this. It's pretty crazy.
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man after reading that Russia deserves a gold medal for doping!
 
John Connor said:
Looks like Inovio Pharmaceuticals is on the NASDAQ as INFI and Bharat Biotech is in India.

Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc is at $4.70 and has been in decline for the past year.
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Well, it will be interesting to keep a close watch if they get that vaccin ready around the time increased zika spreading will start.
Otherwise, pull an nvidia. 🙂
 
Pulsar said:
I guess I'm not surprised a lot of people have no clue what's already going on... because 'MURICUH! FOOK YAH!

For those of you saying it will go off without a hitch, do you realize that there have already been some serious sicknesses in the boating teams? That they are literally cramming their bodily orifices with Vaseline, and wearing waterproof drysuits to get out to the competition courses to attempt to mitigate the issues?

The saddest part is that this discussion has been going on for 6 months and the US population is JUST beginning to talk about. Because Hillary Canckles and Donald Drumpf!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tainted-water-rio-olympics_us_565eaddfe4b08e945fed65f7
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Oh please, the old "Americans are a bunch of provincial bumpkins" bullshit? First of all, the U.S. has always cared less about the Olympics than the rest of the world, and for good reason. We have the world's best baseball, football, basketball, and hockey players playing here year round, so we're pretty sports saturated already. As you've seen in this thread, we've lost even more interest when the IOC corruption reached ridiculous levels and they started holding the Olympics in 3rd world shitholes.

Second of all, we wrote the fucking laws that the world needs to adopt to get rid of the corruption that's wrecking the games. If the EU and OECD could get their shit together and put the same kind of laws in place maybe they wouldn't need to rely on the FBI to do this kind of shit. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/27/several-top-fifa-officials-arrested

You're welcome.
 
Blackjack200 said:
Oh please, the old "Americans are a bunch of provincial bumpkins" bullshit? First of all, the U.S. has always cared less about the Olympics than the rest of the world, and for good reason. We have the world's best baseball, football, basketball, and hockey players playing here year round, so we're pretty sports saturated already. As you've seen in this thread, we've lost even more interest when the IOC corruption reached ridiculous levels and they started holding the Olympics in 3rd world shitholes.

Second of all, we wrote the fucking laws that the world needs to adopt to get rid of the corruption that's wrecking the games. If the EU and OECD could get their shit together and put the same kind of laws in place maybe they wouldn't need to rely on the FBI to do this kind of shit. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/27/several-top-fifa-officials-arrested

You're welcome.
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There is really no good reason to host World Cup finals anywhere outside Western Europe where all the world-class facilities are and they are constantly used and maintained by the top clubs. There isn't even a timing clash to deal with since no major football club tournaments or leagues happens anyway when the WC finals are in session.
 
twinrider1 said:
I was wondering if this has ever been used as a movie plot. It would be a good way to spread a virus. Imagine the inflatable drone floating silently over the Olympic village, over the stadiums, releasing a fine viral mist. A month later the symptoms erupt in nearly every country. Bam, post apocalyptic thriller.
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You wouldn't even need a drone, just a few aerosol canisters in the bathrooms. The day the terrorists stop blowing stuff up and go to work on biological weapons we're all fucked.
 
Imp said:
Thanks for getting this thread flagged by the FBI!
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They were probably watching anyway. I for one welcome our new FBI/NSA overlords and want to point out to them that my neighbor might be operating a chemical weapons lab in the motor of his no-muffler Harley.
 
Daaaaaamn

Puerto Rico has counted 925 cases of Zika, including 128 pregnant women. At least 14 pregnant women infected with Zika have given birth to healthy babies. Rius said the unidentified woman who donated her fetus did not test positive for Zika or present symptoms but she clearly was infected at one point. The health secretary noted that there is only a short period when people with Zika test positive for the virus, and after that it no longer shows up.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/n...379405811.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand
 
Ns1 said:
Daaaaaamn

Puerto Rico has counted 925 cases of Zika, including 128 pregnant women. At least 14 pregnant women infected with Zika have given birth to healthy babies. Rius said the unidentified woman who donated her fetus did not test positive for Zika or present symptoms but she clearly was infected at one point. The health secretary noted that there is only a short period when people with Zika test positive for the virus, and after that it no longer shows up.
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I think this problem has, so far, been compounded by the religiousness of South America and their stance on a certain issue -- being "settled" by the Spanish Inquisition people and very very Catholic does that.

Edit: Oh, and poverty. Poverty doesn't help.
 
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Imp said:
I think this problem has, so far, been compounded by the religiousness of South America and their stance on a certain issue -- being "settled" by the Spanish Inquisition people and very very Catholic does that.

Edit: Oh, and poverty. Poverty doesn't help.
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"Oh, what do you mean by we can't afford to raise kids? Why are you such anti-human genocidal Hitler?" *makes babies anyway, cries for sympathy when shit predictably happens*
 
Imp said:
I think this problem has, so far, been compounded by the religiousness of South America and their stance on a certain issue -- being "settled" by the Spanish Inquisition people and very very Catholic does that.

Edit: Oh, and poverty. Poverty doesn't help.
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The Pope has already come out and said birth control would be the lesser of two evils, allowing for birth control to be used.
 
DrPizza said:
The Pope has already come out and said birth control would be the lesser of two evils, allowing for birth control to be used.
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The pope has come out and said that he's open to the idea of birth control as an anti-infection tool and that it could be something worth looking at in the future as long as it was not used as a way to prevent pregnancy.

The Vatican's official policy remains the same: Birth control is a giant no-no, the lesser evil is still evil and if you use any method of birth control for any reason you're going to hell where you will roast for all eternity.
 
DrPizza said:
The Pope has already come out and said birth control would be the lesser of two evils, allowing for birth control to be used.
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Maybe I'm cynical with what I've seen from religious people... but I don't think they care what the Pope says when it comes to certain things written in the almighty bible.

And thanks to poverty, I don't think people there have much access to el doctoro o la ultrasound machina to be even be able to make a pre-birth decision.
 
Imp said:
Maybe I'm cynical with what I've seen from religious people... but I don't think they care what the Pope says when it comes to certain things written in the almighty bible.
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The big book of fairy tales doesn't mention birth control at all. The bible was written by people with the same wisdom and intelligence as a liverwurst sandwich on whole wheat.

Why do god and the old men in the funny hats care about birth control at all? We're talking about an omnipotent being who farted the universe out of his ass. Surely he can sneak a sperm through a condom if he wanted to. He knocked up Mary without sex, if he wants a woman pregnant his almighty will find a way. Are the pedophiles in Rome truly claiming that the birth of the new messiah could be prevented by a pill?
 
Dragging this back to topic, I was a resident of Atlanta in 1996. After the IOC basically slapped Billy Payne and company on the face for not licking their boots enough, I have kept two observations...

First, Billy Payne, the overall mastermind and inspiration for the bid, finished the Olympics with a cool half million in personal debt.

"I didn't do this to get a reward at the end of the day," he added. "People who trusted me and people whom I loved pulled off an enormous success. That is the reward, and nobody owes me anything other than the opportunity to help where I can."

Also,

"Atlanta benefited more than any other city in the history of the Olympics," said A.D. Frazier, the chief operating officer for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. "Afterward, we had no debt and we left behind a legacy of privately funded structures the city would not have seen otherwise."

Atlanta's growth since 1996 is directly due to the recognition the city got under the Olympic rings.

Now compare that with what's happening now...
 
At least it's just the summer olympics, those don't tend to be as relevant as winter ones anyway. Hockey, curling and the more exotic sports like bobsled and luge are where it's at.
 
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