How has COVID-19 affected your mongering?

Yeah, two cases of infection within my family.....but both with mild symptoms.
 
8 cases in close circle (in Europe): 1 in the 20's with high fever for 3 days, some dry cough for 5 days, very tired - fully recovered; 1 in the 20's with no more smell for 2 weeks (has slowly come back); 1 in the 20's with nothing else than loss of smell and taste (not come back yet after 2 weeks); 1 in the 40's with some dry cough and dryness (need to drink A LOT day and night) and muscle ache - fully recovered; 1 in the 50's some headache, some cough, lost of smell, muscle ache, tired for 2 weeks - fully recovered; 1 in the 80's some cough, no fever, very thirsty, very tired, no appetite - actually recovering slowly; 2 in the 50's had too much difficulties breathing, high fever, taken to ER, ventilator, artificial coma for 10 days, recovering slowly, will need rehab... nasty bug...
Seems that symptoms can differ a lot from people to people. Seems very contagious too as all 8 were using masks and hand washing heavily ...
On these 8 cases, only 2 have entered the national stats as the remaining 6 stayed at home to recover by themselves in quarantine without doctor. But only tests will tell if it was the Covid-19.
Interestingly I read and heard (Tom Hanks on SNL) that some people who got the virus and recovered are being treated as if they were still carrying it and contagious.
 
I was hoping to hear a bunch of no, i am in mexico rn and someone i know has yet to be infected, wish you good luck
 
Keihan Chikan said:
No worries, I doubt there are any JETs in any P4P forums. The female ALTs quickly figure out that Japanese aren't particularly accepting of lesbianism and go back to Berkeley or Eugene after their first year. The male ALTs either come to and leave Japan as virgins, or end up doing the Masuo-san thing, married to the ugliest girl in the village, pulling weeds in some shithole rice paddy but spend their days in a haze of joy and wonder because they've convinced themselves that they're actually Tom Cruise from The Last Samurai.
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Yes, several colleagues. All are recovering but it has been a long haul (almost three weeks in one case).
 
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Roningg said:
Anyone know anyone that got infected/died?
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Yes, two people very close to me got infected unfortunately. One is doing okay now after suffering for a while, the other person is in intensive care. The worst thing is I can’t get to see them.
This is the most mentally challenging thing I’ve experienced since losing a parent.
 
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Simonka said:
Yes, two people very close to me got infected unfortunately. One is doing okay now after suffering for a while, the other person is in intensive care. The worst thing is I can’t get to see them.
This is the most mentally challenging thing I’ve experienced since losing a parent.
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Hospitals in my area are restricting visitors too. Even spouses can’t see their other half in ICU. They can’t even go into the ER with them. My docs are conveying to patients (especially the elderly and those with end of life considerations) that when they go in to the hospital (not just for COVID19), to consider that they may end up dying alone. Such a crappy situation right now.
 
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Acid Burn said:
Hospitals in my area are restricting visitors too. Even spouses can’t see their other half in ICU. They can’t even go into the ER with them. My docs are conveying to patients (especially the elderly and those with end of life considerations) that when they go in to the hospital (not just for COVID19), to consider that they may end up dying alone. Such a crappy situation right now.
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I can't even make an appointment to get my monthly meds. I need to go but they don't even answer their phones.
 
Acid Burn said:
Hospitals in my area are restricting visitors too. Even spouses can’t see their other half in ICU. They can’t even go into the ER with them. My docs are conveying to patients (especially the elderly and those with end of life considerations) that when they go in to the hospital (not just for COVID19), to consider that they may end up dying alone. Such a crappy situation right now.
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Sounds scary....may I ask where you are currently living? I have no idea if the situation is similar everywhere, but I bet because it's quite contagious, visitors are probably allowed nowhere in intensive care atm.
 
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Yes, several colleagues. All are recovering but it has been a long haul (almost three weeks in one case).
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Do you know if they’ve been hospitalized, or self treating at home?

Seeing posts that NHK is reporting hospitals are starting to refuse admission around Tokyo. Don’t know how valid that is. However, the medical system here is ridiculous on any given day, so wouldn’t be surprising.
 
TokyoExpat said:
However, the medical system here is ridiculous on any given day, so wouldn’t be surprising.
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Why do you think its ridiculous? Things could be better, but I think it's at least very efficient. I am originally from Germany, which has a pretty good medical system (crisis proves this right now), but making appointments especially when you want to see a specialist is super complicated and you always have to wait days or weeks to get checked.
What I think is pretty awesome about Japan is, that it takes no time to talk to a specialized doctor. You can even go there without appointment in a lot of cases. I have to admit I had no serious problems so far, but was always kinda satisfied with the system here.
 
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Danbo said:
but was always kinda satisfied with the system here.
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I am really happy with the Japanese healthcare system. That is of course from someone who hasn't yet had to test the deep end, so I have never been hospitalised with a serious disease.

But for the normal everyday situations like broken or fractured bones, missing teeth or some such everything works perfectly, fast and efficiently. That is because you get to shop your doctors; there are a good number of really crappy ones but you can choose to avoid them unlike some other countries where you have to visit the clinic/hospital based on your home address.

Last week I had to visit my doc for some minor thing and I was even thinking of not going as there would be a lot of sick people normally, yikes. Went to take a look anyway and the place was empty. Just two nurses and my doc ready to listen my worries immediately after I got my shoes off. Appointment around thousand yens and the medication another thousand. In and out in less than 15 minutes, including the trip to the pharmacy next door.
 
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I don't know if things have changed in a decade and maybe my experiences weren't the norm, but I was enrolled in the national healthcare plan during my years and found the Japanese healthcare and hospitals to be horrifically outdated and backwards compared to the U.S. Sure, most things ended up being a tenth of the price stateside and for minor things like ear infections or rashes it was fine, but I went through to particularly traumatic (to me, anyway) incidents which is why I'm more than happy to pay what I do for U.S. doctors visits.

During my first year in-country and after discovering how cheap imported liquor was, I ended up drinking until I gave myself peptic ulcers, which is the type where you feel nauseous and about to puke all day long. I have ulcers in my family and enough doctor relatives to know the standard procedure stateside: barium xray, endoscope to confirm then standard treatment of acid-blockers, antibiotics and medication to kill H. Pylori bacteria. At the friendly Osaka hospital I visited, which looked like a WW2-era bunker, I instead had a doctor touch my stomach, grunt a few times, stick me on a fucking IV for an hour because he said I was dehydrated and then send me home with the Japanese equivalent of Tums and a promise to call back if I start shitting or puking blood. I asked about the barium and xray and he replied that such is only for "very serious" cases. Wonders of socialized medicine. I ended up using homeopathic remedies and it took two years for the ulcers to go away.

My dental experience was even worse. An old filling ended up falling out and creating a minor crack in an incisor, so I booked an appointment at a modern-looking dental clinic in downtown Osaka. When I got there, the decrepit dentist looked like he could've been a war criminal from Manchuria and the equipment he was using was such that I hadn't seen since 1984 at my children's dental clinic. He told me I'd need an inlay, which I was fine with, and then as he began prepping he asked if I needed "the shot," which I realized meant anesthetic. No idea how it is in your countries, but stateside it's been standard practice since, say, the 1940s, to give every patient the needle before drilling his/her teeth. So in disbelief, I asked him why he would even ask that, and how in America it's standard practice. His answer, in English, and I'm not even kidding: "ONLY WHITE PEOPLE NEED THE SHOT, BECAUSE THEY ARE WEAK. YOU HAVE JAPANESE BLOOD. YOU SHOULD NOT BE WEAK."

If he was trying to bait me, it worked. "FUCK IT THEN, I DON'T NEED THE FUCKING SHOT." I then spent the next 45 minutes in the worst pain and agony of my life, screaming and howling with tears running down my cheeks and I swear I may have disfigured the metal armrests on the dental chair. I think my nuts inverted and I didn't get a hard-on for a week. When he was finally done, the asshole had the nerve to pat me on the shoulder and exclaim: "YES, YOU ARE REAL JAPANESE!!"

To this day, I don't know if this was standard operating procedure of a sadistic prank, and neither does my dentist here stateside--who also loves to remark that the steel inlay the old man used is ancient technology he hasn't seen used since the 1970s. I'm just too cheap to pay two grand for a proper ceramic crown so if I smile too wide, my silver inlay sparkles like a Puerto Rican pimp's grill.

So you'll just have to forgive me if I don't trust the Japanese health system and I'll be having all of my medical procedures done here stateside for the rest of my life.
 
Keihan Chikan said:
"ONLY WHITE PEOPLE NEED THE SHOT, BECAUSE THEY ARE WEAK. YOU HAVE JAPANESE BLOOD. YOU SHOULD NOT BE WEAK."
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Lol, that made my evening :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

When it comes to Japanese dentists i completely believe you....i am always puzzled to see how many Japanese have metal fillings/inlays. Nobody does this anymore in Germany because it looks horrible and is probably also not the most healthy thing to do. Here it seems common practice till this day :banghead:
 
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So you'll just have to forgive me if I don't trust the Japanese health system and I'll be having all of my medical procedures done here stateside for the rest of my life.
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Both of your stories just confirm my findings during four different decades in Tokyo. There are a lot of crappy doctors here. I am betting they are those ones whose parents are also doctors, who went in to the most expensive private universities in the country and spend their days there drinking the cleaning liquids and fucking their class mates.

The thing is you need to shop around and when you find a good one (and there are a lot of good ones too) you hold on to them. This goes for both medical doctors and dentists. My dentist uses so much anaesthetics that in the beginning I was sure he was gay and tries to sedate me senseless so he could fuck me right there. I mean he uses anaesthetic wipes to numb my skin before he gives me the shot for anaesthetics. And when he drills I feel like a virgin girl as he asks every few seconds "does it hurt?" and even when I say "just a bit, I am OK" he just pumps me with more anaesthetics.

And the thing is with the national health insurance you pay the same where ever you go. And with our tax money in the work you pay so little that when I get even a bit older I'll start to visit the clinic just to see the cute nurses in their uniforms. More exciting and way cheaper than any kyabakura.
 
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Here it seems common practice till this day :banghead:
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The ceramics are covered by the insurance only for the six teeth in front. So number four in either jaw and/or side is the one you need to decide is it worth the money. The fifth nobody sees anyway so that's not a problem.

The benefit of being an ugly bloke like me is you are not leaving any pussy on the table by being cheap and getting the old school filling so you can just drink that money too.
 
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The fifth nobody sees anyway so that's not a problem.
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I don't know....somehow I have a thing for teeth. I don't mind if they are crooked, but I can't stand the look of metal fillings.....and I always notice immediately if I talk to someone :eek:

I like girls with lots of piercings....but metal their teeth? That crosses a red line :mask:
 
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