The Tokyo Olympics are going to be a disaster. It doesn’t help that tens of thousands of volunteers quit because of the pandemic. Majority of Japanese don’t want to host the games with the pandemic ongoing, and it doesn’t help that only a small percentage of Japanese are fully vaccinated.

Ten thousand Olympic volunteers quit their posts in Tokyo, with the games just 50 days away. https://t.co/t9f5Co626q

— The Nation (@thenation) June 10, 2021

I’m absolutely smacked of gob learning that Japan has vaccinated *checks notes* 3% of its population. That’s absolutely insane.

Costs for the games are probably approaching $30 billion (or twice what they estimated the games would cost), and the country couldn’t afford even that lower number.