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I’ve had this popping up on Facebook just now....

I always wondered why in japan a temperature of 37,5 is already considered having a fever.... guess I need to get myself to the hospital asap because that’s usually my normal temperature o_O

Also.... how are you supposed to go to the special clinic if you shouldn’t use public transportation? Taxi? And possibly infect that poor taxi driver too? (Guess he or she might as well stay there too then.... but maybe taking the risks of one person over more seems plausible...)
 
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Well, if I was thinking with my intellectual head instead of my horny head, I would have brought masks instead of omiyage. Sorry, wasn't thinking straight, but pointing straight in anticipation of my trip. Bachi, serves me right, that's why this trip my credit cards are all fucked up, lol. Since we haven't had a major scare in Hawaii yet, I assume masks would be readily available.

But in all seriousness everyone, try to stay safe as best under the circumstances. For myself, haven't worried much about it since I'm healthy. Haven't given it a second thought to book escorts while I'm here. Like they say, the normal flu will infect and kill more people than the coronavirus unless some major mutation happens.
 
Anna Summer said:
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I’ve had this popping up on Facebook just now....

I always wondered why in japan a temperature of 37,5 is already considered having a fever.... guess I need to get myself to the hospital asap because that’s usually my normal temperature o_O
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That's called the hot girl syndrome. It's just a burden you have to carry.;)
Now more seriously, back home depending on the person a temperature of 36 to 37 is considered normal, while in Japan it seems 36 is considered to be the norm. There will probably some reason for this, but I never bothered to do some further research.
 
RandomTokyoGuy said:
That's called the hot girl syndrome. It's just a burden you have to carry.;)
Now more seriously, back home depending on the person a temperature of 36 to 37 is considered normal, while in Japan it seems 36 is considered to be the norm. There will probably some reason for this, but I never bothered to do some further research.
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Japanese people on the average have shorter arms, shorter legs and fatter heads. As such, they radiate heat at at lower rate than say a Masai tribesman who has long arms, long legs and a small head. For this reason, the temperature of the body core, or torso if you will, of a Japanese person, is slighly lower. I just made this up, but I am pretty sure it is true, so I will state it here as if it is scientific fact.
 
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warubuta said:
Japanese people on the average have shorter arms, shorter legs and fatter heads. As such, they radiate heat at at lower rate than say a Masai tribesman who has long arms, long legs and a small head. For this reason, the temperature of the body core, or torso if you will, of a Japanese person, is slighly lower. I just made this up, but I am pretty sure it is true, so I will state it here as if it is scientific fact.
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Ask Mikey to provide corroborating “studies”. He’s very good at that :)
 
Anna Summer said:
I always wondered why in japan a temperature of 37,5 is already considered having a fever.... guess I need to get myself to the hospital asap because that’s usually my normal temperature o_O
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You can interpret "37.5 C or over for four days or more" as "mild fever that last more than 4 days". As you know your body temperature is low in the morning and rising during the day to the peak in the evening/night. Please be careful if you feel fine in the morning but feel feverish at night and see no improvement more than 4 days despite taking medication and good rest.
 
That's your inference. Not mine. Also, the fact they died while under the custody of ship is the entire point regardless of what their age was.
 
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And.....here we go... Can't believe they allowed it to get to this point.
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2 out of over 600 infected is about 0.3%. with a lot of the infected being elderly people, it would have been truly surprising, if there wasn't a single death. I can't see the PR desaster here. There is really no fault by the cruise company.

Not sure what you expected. The cruise ship surely had no say in how the quarantine got handled.
 
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Did they ever identify who "patient zero" on that cruise ship was? I'd hate to be that MFer if word got out that he/she was the one that infected hundreds, got a few people killed and put thousands of people at risk.
 
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Did they ever identify who "patient zero" on that cruise ship was? I'd hate to be that MFer if word got out that he/she was the one that infected hundreds, got a few people killed and put thousands of people at risk.
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Not that I've read but I wouldn't be opposed to there being some sort of retribution or a fantastic class-action lawsuit (or maybe just beating his ass up and making him buy drinks). However, officials over in Hawaii are apparently less restrained and probably pissed off at that asshole from Nagoya who was already exhibiting symptoms and still flew to the islands because the local paper has been publishing his name all week long. Teruhito Fujii, 65, and also his wife, both infected and spent 11 days contagious on Maui and Oahu, and presumably in quarantine now. Morons will be ground-zero for the mainland U.S. outbreak when it starts next week. Not that it really matters, anymore, with the number of infected Japanese and dozens of daily flights from Japan to every major city in America.

I was initially a little worried as I'm flying into HND in two weeks, but the reality is it probably won't even matter by then. When I get back, I think I'll use the situation as an excuse to stay home from work for two weeks and "self quarantine" with a few gallons of Costco vodka, box wine, snacks and the Cuban cigars I'm planning to smuggle back with me.
 
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Not that I've read but I wouldn't be opposed to there being some sort of retribution or a fantastic class-action lawsuit (or maybe just beating his ass up and making him buy drinks). However, officials over in Hawaii are apparently less restrained and probably pissed off at that asshole from Nagoya who was already exhibiting symptoms and still flew to the islands because the local paper has been publishing his name all week long. Teruhito Fujii, 65, and also his wife, both infected and spent 11 days contagious on Maui and Oahu, and presumably in quarantine now. Morons will be ground-zero for the mainland U.S. outbreak when it starts next week. Not that it really matters, anymore, with the number of infected Japanese and dozens of daily flights from Japan to every major city in America.

I was initially a little worried as I'm flying into HND in two weeks, but the reality is it probably won't even matter by then. When I get back, I think I'll use the situation as an excuse to stay home from work for two weeks and "self quarantine" with a few gallons of Costco vodka, box wine, snacks and the Cuban cigars I'm planning to smuggle back with me.
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Keihan Chikan said:
Not that I've read but I wouldn't be opposed to there being some sort of retribution or a fantastic class-action lawsuit (or maybe just beating his ass up and making him buy drinks). However, officials over in Hawaii are apparently less restrained and probably pissed off at that asshole from Nagoya who was already exhibiting symptoms and still flew to the islands because the local paper has been publishing his name all week long. Teruhito Fujii, 65, and also his wife, both infected and spent 11 days contagious on Maui and Oahu, and presumably in quarantine now. Morons will be ground-zero for the mainland U.S. outbreak when it starts next week. Not that it really matters, anymore, with the number of infected Japanese and dozens of daily flights from Japan to every major city in America.

I was initially a little worried as I'm flying into HND in two weeks, but the reality is it probably won't even matter by then. When I get back, I think I'll use the situation as an excuse to stay home from work for two weeks and "self quarantine" with a few gallons of Costco vodka, box wine, snacks and the Cuban cigars I'm planning to smuggle back with me.
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so where do they think this guy got infected? Some reports say he may have gotten infected on the plane. Were there people from China transiting through Tokyo on his flight to Hawaii? What a fuckwit. I don’t care if it’s not his fault. As soon as he is out of danger, the State of Hawaii should send over a delegation of super violent Samoan gang members to beat him and his wife up. Or at least scare the shit out of him and maybe break some shit in his house like his TV or his bonsai trees. Hawaiian style.
 
RandomTokyoGuy said:
2 out of over 600 infected is about 0.3%. with a lot of the infected being elderly people, it would have been truly surprising, if there wasn't a single death. I can't see the PR desaster here. There is really no fault by the cruise company.

Not sure what you expected. The cruise ship surely had no say in how the quarantine got handled.
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Sorry, didn't mean the cruise company, but specifically, the government agency that is responsible for this (particularly, for not making an immediate and decisive plan of action for high-risk individuals). I guess, the Ministry of Health, but I may be wrong. I think most people can come to that conclusion that a particular government agency is liable.
 
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Sorry, didn't mean the cruise company, but specifically, the government agency that is responsible for this (particularly, for not making an immediate and decisive plan of action for high-risk individuals). I guess, the Ministry of Health, but I may be wrong. I think most people can come to that conclusion that a particular government agency is liable.
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Oh stop yer bellyaching. Not too many years ago and the Japanese would have dragged the dirty diseased foreigners off the boat and boiled them alive in big vats.
 
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Lukes said:
Did they ever identify who "patient zero" on that cruise ship was? I'd hate to be that MFer if word got out that he/she was the one that infected hundreds, got a few people killed and put thousands of people at risk.
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It has been repeated numerous times that it was an 80year old (men I believe) who entered the ship on 20th and left it on 25th of January. If I recall right he was from Hong Kong. Given the time line ... There weren't much if any cases outside Hubei at this time and even then those numbers were still quite low. I think that was still even before the WHO started to take that thing serious. It's maybe forgotten by now, but in the early stages it was still questioned if there is patient to patient transmission at all.
Anyways, that guy being the reason for the quarantine doesn't mean that he is actually patient zero on the ship. Might just be the first patient to be identified.
 
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warubuta said:
Oh stop yer bellyaching. Not too many years ago and the Japanese would have dragged the dirty diseased foreigners off the boat and boiled them alive in big vats.
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Good point. But now in the age of globalization, mass commerce, multiculturalism, and acronyms like "Global Village" being tossed around, those two dead people don't fair well for the government's Olympic aspirations. The CDC already said this was a grave mistake... watch tomorrow night's news in Europe, Asia, The U.S.
 
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The CDC already said this was a grave mistake
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They never said "a grave mistake". Anyone can say anything in hindsight- CDC is professional enough not to judge a past decision that way.

But yes it's a huge PR disaster for Japan. I just don't understand why they don't do press briefings in English...
 
When some of you mentioned the lack of hand washing was common in Japan, I laughed it off.. I’ve been living here for a long time and I never payed attention to people’s hygiene habits after using the public bathrooms. I thought you guys were exaggerating for the sake of anecdotal entertainment.
So I’ve used a public bathroom the other day, and a young woman lazily ran water on her hands for maybe a second.. I was appalled, but I had my faith in the next lady who was much older and looked like she had learned proper countryside manners in Shizuoka back in the day.
Nope. The same lazy hand rinsing. No soap. No nothing. I wish I could say there is a possibility that they ran out of soap but they didn’t even reach for the soap dispenser.

I’m grossed out. Is everything we touch in public places are covered with a thin layer of bodily juices?
I already do not use the public testers in cosmetic stores, but imagine the amount of bacteria. Ewww.
 
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