By the time you read this, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, set for February 4–20, will be underway—unless they’ve been canceled at the last moment due to the pandemic. But that’s probably not going to happen. As we saw in Tokyo last summer, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has never minded the games becoming a global superspreader event if the alternative is losing ungodly sums of television revenue.

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