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Covid roulette

Someone has decided to amalgamate two daredevil reality TV shows, Jackass and MythBusters, and mount a couple of international productions, best known to us as Freedom Day in Britain and the Olympic Games in Japan.

These are basically real-time experiments on live humans, who, to be fair, know what the risks are in advance of the experiments they’re about to be involved in.

It’s unfortunate that most of the participants are not exactly voluntary. Millions of Japanese and Britons are decidedly unkeen and have done everything possible to block these extravaganzas.

A bit selfish, really, because from what happens to them, the rest of

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