Tokyo's unpopular Olympic Games lumbers towards opening ceremony with shrug and sadness

To be in Tokyo this week is to operate in a state of perpetual quarantine. Or actual quarantine as one of the thousands of media to arrive on Monday or Tuesday. If, like many, this is your first trip to Japan, moving around the city feels like that specific privilege of losing deep into a game show. Happy to be there but pained by the loss of what you could have won.