With all the stuff that's going on with #COVID19 and the #Tokyo #Olympics, one simmering scandal seems to have gone largely unnoticed in the western media so far: Tokyo Metropolitan Government's plan to force schoolchildren to act as an audience for the games. Thread 1/4
The Tokyo Metropolitan Education Board is making around 800,000 kids attend Games events to pad attendance - during the school holidays - and mark them as formally 'absent' if they do not (although they have tried to download this to School principals) 2/4 huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp…
And just this week, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Japan has a further scoop with more details, explained on the No Olympics blog 3/4 hangorin.tumblr.com/post/651082616…
In short, there will be no vaccination for children attending (Japan has only vaccinated 3% of the population so far BTW), and the plan is still to force parents to make kids attend by marking them as absent. The #Tokyo #Olympics could be the biggest superspreader event ever. 4/4
Bonus thought: do you remember when everyone condemned #China for making its #Beijing #Olympics volunteers into a fake audience? But a free country like #Japan would never do anything like the authoritarian nation of China, right? #Tokyo2021

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