Rio Olympics 2016 Should be Cancelled

Rebuttal to IOC These are my rebuttals to your arguments against my points. To begin, the IOC chose Rio well before the crises started to happen in Brazil. Well before. Rio de Janeiro was a very fitting city to host the Olympics at the time of choosing, although, today, if the Committee had to re-choose, they would not choose Rio. Economics I don't think you paid attention very well to my argument of Brazil being in an economic recession. Your source backing up your claim of Brazil's 5% growth is severely outdated. It's from 2013. Brazil's current economic status is the lowest of the BRICS nations, and in such a decline, their GDP growth is negative and has been since late 2015 [1]. With the fact that your economics argument is 3 years out of date, it is de facto useless. I'm sorry that you couldn't see my second source, it works fine for me. It would have really helped for you to see my second source because it is from June 2016, and is my exact argument to your hollow case of Brazil's former 5% growth rate. What I meant by "preserve every cent" is to use it for stimulus, and not to finish the Olympic construction planning. I believe in stimulus, and it's necessity to inhibit growth, especially for how necessary Brazil needs it. Health The symptoms for males and non-pregnant women from the Zika virus is minimal. If you know anything about viruses, though, is that they don't leave your body without some sort of immunization by a vaccine. It is also incredibly hard to make a vaccine for viruses as they constantly change forms. An example, is the flu virus [2]. The contagious rate of Zika is exponential, and the fatality rate it has for newborns is globally altering if it hits the world in an intercontinental level which Rio will be the gateway for. Zika can be sexually transmitted and (like I said), because it is a virus, it doesn't die after a week. It stays with you for your life or until it is vaccinated which is a very long process. A hypothetical example is if a lady who acquired Zika in Brazil, came back to Norway, had a baby in 2022, chances are it will have microcephaly. If you'd like to see a visual graph of the contagious rise, I've provided one below. As for clothing, Rio's temperature year round is very high [3]. It is 26 degrees Celsius when hottest in the days of August. The stadiums that Brazil is building for the Summer Olympics will be outside and air conditioning will barely reach the Olympic tourists. Repellents don't always work and usually don't last 12 hours during the time that of Olympic events. Not to mention, Rio is a tropical city and sweat will destroy the repellent chemicals on peopl's skins, combined with the clothing you suggested in the hot city of Rio. Culture I'm sure that the tourists would love to see the culture of crime, gang violence, and common shootouts in Rio which has risen exponentially like the graph I provided in my first round had shown. (Speaking of crime, you never gave me a rebuttal for my argument in the first round which I'll assume you had none for? ) Brazil has culture, it definitely does. Although, I'm hinting that currently, with the mass protesting, rioting, and the current anti-foreigner sentiment many Brazilians are feeling for having their money and land taken by the government only to find it mismanaged in a scandal [4] and all else surrounding Brazil, maybe they could wait some time later to visit. Conclusion Considering you missed one of my arguments and did not see my source backing for the economics, Brazil has many reasons to cancel their Olympics event. Culture is the weakest argument for the Olympics as economically and internationally, Brazil will suffer if they don't stop before the Olympics start. People have already gotten the memo, and not as many tickets as predicted or needed to actually profit has been sold [5]. The attendance rates for Rio will be an all-time low in the Olympics, that is if there will even be an Olympics. -Sources-[1] . http://riotimesonline.com... # & . http://www.nytimes.com...[2] . http://www.holiday-weather.com...[3] . http://www.flu.gov...[4] . http://www.telesurtv.net...[5] . http://fortune.com...