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Monday, January 25, 2021
One year ago, on Friday, January 24, 2020, reports surfaced that a type of coronavirus was starting to circulate in Wuhan, China. The WHO said that day that the outbreak was not a public health emergency, which was changed six days later. The same day, the US CDC said people should avoid Wuhan, and a week after that, the Trump administration banned non-US citizens who had been in China within the last two weeks. At that point, less than 10 cases had been identified in the US, and that number has since exploded to 25 million. In Wuhan, the origin of the disease, the seafood market from which the virus is believed to have originated is bustling again. Though there is still pain and secrecy, the people of Wuhan say that they are resilient. The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics were postponed and are now scheduled for July of this year. If they are not held then, they will be canceled, and the outlook is grim. There is a surge in COVID-19 cases across Japan, and although the IOC and Japanese Olympic Committee say that the games will go on, support from the populace is declining. 77% of Japanese think the games should not go on, and several anti-Olympics groups are saying that they would sacrifice lives. Of course, there is a lot on the line for Japan. The country spent over $25 billion in building and remodeling Tokyo, and the lack of tourism would hurt businesses preparing for extra tourist spending.
