mrzz
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Not that much coverage to begin with, I would guess.
First of all, tennis is not that popular, and a lot of people don´t even know it is on the olympics. Second, the press here has a tendency to ignore foreign critics to the country. Strangely enough news about Zika -- which would dominate news segments two or three months ago -- have almost disappeared from the radar. This is understandable from one point of view, as there are a lot of other stuff going on here and abroad, but it caught my attention anyway.
The link you provided about double´s player Bruno Soares is archetypal: Players can not mention Zika -- it is an excuse, in his words -- but he is allowed to say that there´s a lot of sh!t going on here. That is, foreigners can not say bad things about Brazil, but he can.
The Zika issue is tricky. Personally I do not think it is a big enough reason not to come (there are better ones... as I said elsewhere). There are around 160.000 suspect cases of Zika notified in the country, a quarter of it in Rio de Janeiro state. From "suspect" to "confirmed" might be a good jump, though.
As other´s mentioned, on males Zika is not much more than ordinary flu, and as it is well known, it is unfortunately related to microcephaly -- even if the correlation is far from one to one.
So, if you want to be 100% secure about Zika, don´t come. If you do, yes, there´s a small chance you get it. In Brazilian (third world) terms this is pretty normal, and that´s why I don´t take any precautions about it here in SP as I don´t when I go to Rio. But maybe were are just used to those things.
But I derailed from the question: no, not to much coverage, not even from similar cases from other sports. Yes, it is being mentioned, but more like a footnote.
Our government has stated firmly that they are 100% sure that everything will be 100% perfect. Amen.
First of all, tennis is not that popular, and a lot of people don´t even know it is on the olympics. Second, the press here has a tendency to ignore foreign critics to the country. Strangely enough news about Zika -- which would dominate news segments two or three months ago -- have almost disappeared from the radar. This is understandable from one point of view, as there are a lot of other stuff going on here and abroad, but it caught my attention anyway.
The link you provided about double´s player Bruno Soares is archetypal: Players can not mention Zika -- it is an excuse, in his words -- but he is allowed to say that there´s a lot of sh!t going on here. That is, foreigners can not say bad things about Brazil, but he can.
The Zika issue is tricky. Personally I do not think it is a big enough reason not to come (there are better ones... as I said elsewhere). There are around 160.000 suspect cases of Zika notified in the country, a quarter of it in Rio de Janeiro state. From "suspect" to "confirmed" might be a good jump, though.
As other´s mentioned, on males Zika is not much more than ordinary flu, and as it is well known, it is unfortunately related to microcephaly -- even if the correlation is far from one to one.
So, if you want to be 100% secure about Zika, don´t come. If you do, yes, there´s a small chance you get it. In Brazilian (third world) terms this is pretty normal, and that´s why I don´t take any precautions about it here in SP as I don´t when I go to Rio. But maybe were are just used to those things.
But I derailed from the question: no, not to much coverage, not even from similar cases from other sports. Yes, it is being mentioned, but more like a footnote.
Our government has stated firmly that they are 100% sure that everything will be 100% perfect. Amen.
