The First Lady is headed to the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Japan.

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[bearsfootball516]

1. Stay safe and mask up!

[Blues Heron]

2. Why dignify a spreader event?

This planet has gone loco. Why have a frivolous athletic contest when it's sure to have a viral death count? You're essentially creating an attractive nuisance that will lead to covid19 spread.

[frazzled]

3. There are no spectators

So no, it’s not a big spreader event. And despite the very slow rollout of the vaccine there, the cases and deaths have been fairly low for a country of 125 million people .... a cumulative number of 822,594 confirmed cases and 14,905 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/japan

On Edit: also, after being tested, no athlete is permitted outside the Olympic Village

[Blues Heron]

4. Its a big event anyway, so, yes, it is a big spreader event

Despite the lack of spectators, there will be a lot of athletes, coaches, trainers, assistants, catering, judges, etc. etc. etc. It takes a lot of people to stage an athletic festival of that size.

[frazzled]

7. I'd worry more about baseball games here

Where there are thousands of fans, all over the country, in addition to staff, coaches, managers, tv and grounds crews. Every day, in every major city.

Here, we are still have 32,000 cases for today, while Japan has 1,500. One would expect that a country with half the US population would have half the cases, or 16,000. They have 10 times less than us still.

[Blues Heron]

8. Right but the Olympics brings people together from all across the globe

It's not a Japan only event. Unconscionable to hold them in the middle of a pandemic. It's all about the money of course, so what if there's a body count.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I am so glad that we do not have a sex worker as FLOTUS

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Dear lord, why?

This has huge potential to be a superspreader event, even without anyone in the stands. There will be some 11,000 athletes, and many more officials and judges and so on.