I think the TV ratings are gonna be terrible. Most of the events aren't live, analysts are remote, everyone is in a KN95 mask more than 2 years into this thing, cheering from already limited crowds is discouraged and the entire Chinese "Olympic bubble" is locked down like it's a dystopian supermax prison. Not fun to see at all. Life can be depressing enough without choosing to turn on the TV to see all of that bull
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A look at China’s elaborate virus measures.
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"What was it like entering the Olympic bubble?
So I got off the plane and was met by a horde of Olympic medical staffers wearing head-to-toe hazmat suits. And I got what was, for me, one of the most excruciatingly painful nasal swabs I’ve had during the entire pandemic. And then I got my bag and was shuttled on to one of these special private Olympic buses, which are part of this private network of transportation that they’ve created for these Games. And we drove in a special Olympic highway lane to our hotel, in the heart of Beijing.
In general, everything is super restricted and very locked down. It was a little bit deflating, for instance, to pull up to the hotel in the bus and see like a 10-foot-tall fence around the perimeter of it and guards standing everywhere."
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