Future Poltergeist

When I put DF to bed, he asks me questions before we turn on his music.  Tonight, his last question went like this: DF: What does a cowboy wedding look like. Me: ...uh, I don't know. DF: (thinking) Would the pinata be shaped like a horse? Me: ... DF: Maybe with a crown on it.  (pause)  And a cape? Me: I have no idea. I love the way his mind works, but I won't pretend that I understand it.

The Harvard Public Health Review is calling for the Rio Olympics to be delayed or moved to a different city , and I'm not so sure that they're wrong.  The problem is the Zika virus.  Rio is right in the heart of the problem area.  As the review points out, not only is it a risk for the people traveling there, but when they leave, they will spread that risk to (literally) the entire world. Which leads to a simple question:  But for the Games, would anyone recommend sending an extra half a million visitors into Brazil right now?    Of course not: mass migration into the heart of an outbreak is a public health no-brainer.  And given the choice between accelerating a dangerous new disease or not—for it is impossible that Games will slow Zika down—the answer should be a no-brainer for the Olympic organizers too.  Putting sentimentality aside, clearly the Rio 2016 Games must not proceed. So, what happens?  I don't believe that the IOC wil...