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World Health Organization Spurns Calls to Cancel or Move the Olympics Due to Zika

posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 30 2016, @09:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the power-of-the-dollar dept.

takyon writes:

The show must go on:

The World Health Organization is trying to ease concerns about spreading Zika as a result of this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janiero.

"Based on current assessment, cancelling or changing the location of the 2016 Olympics will not significantly alter the international spread of Zika virus," a statement released Saturday reads.

This comes a day after more than 150 scientists released an open letter to the head of WHO calling for the games to be moved or postponed, citing new research. "We make this call despite the widespread fatalism that the Rio 2016 Games are inevitable or 'too big to fail,'" the letter says.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 30 2016, @03:09PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday May 30 2016, @03:09PM (#352641) Homepage Journal

    it's genetically engineered, to do exactly what it appears to be doing. The next generation is to be a bunch of pinheads, reliant on the nanny state. In fact, the state may hunt down and execute anyoen with an IQ over 70.

    Sounds like the material for the next Soylent-Green-like science fiction movie.

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  • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday May 31 2016, @03:48PM

    by DECbot (832) on Tuesday May 31 2016, @03:48PM (#353081) Journal

    Aldous Huxley's Brave New World comes to mind. Somebody has to be happy to take out the garbage, sweep the streets, and input data into the database. Now take your soma and stop making a fuss--you're upsetting the nanny state.

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