• take_five_seconds [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    watching that horrified me esp when he came back with a mask and it came out he was purposefully not telling people

    just what the fuck even my trashy coworkers know to stay home when sick. i get it’s the motherfucking olympics but come the fuck on. i wonder if he’ll be able to compete again at that level.

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    4 months ago

    this guy pissed me off so much, just giving a potentially career destroying RESPIRATORY ILLNESS to dozens if not hundreds of atheletes just to get a FUCKING BRONZE

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      Symptoms of a broken system etc… A bronze medal in the Olympics is well worth it in the eyes of someone who has dedicated his entire life (so far) to achieve this. It is short sighted, ignorant and extremely negligent, but this just mirrors societies attitude to COVID right now. On the other hand we elevate sports competition to matters of nationalistic pride, heroism, even politics and one of the greatest forms of vicarious achievements. An athlete at that level has already very little concern for their own health, likely taking PED of some form and pushing his body beyond it’s limits. I find it difficult to be particularly mad at him. He did as everyone expected him to.

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      getting gold wouldn’t have justified it. actually new rule; for every athlete that competes with with covid their medals don’t count and one additional medal is deducted from their countries tally

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      just giving a potentially career destroying RESPIRATORY ILLNESS to dozens if not hundreds of atheletes just to get a FUCKING BRONZE

      those people come in contact with the covid every day that they go outside, what’s the big deal?

      much better to give people covid for an olympic bronze than for a mcdouble

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    Requirements for hospitals to report COVID data were also lifted in May, though that policy will be reversed later this month and will become mandatory come November. Still, that’s a good chunk of time with incomplete or inadequate hospital data, and lacking that, it’s hard to know what the pandemic really looks like.

    thonk pretty convenient, what else is happening in the US in November