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To make a long story short? I'm a lip reader so this is difficult (among other things)
hahahahahahaha Thank you sir. I'm booked using GoTo in Jan. Hope we're all still alive by then.Basically they are saying please do not get infected. The situation is so bad they had to suck all the air in the meeting room through their teeth. So they have done their part.
And that while the GoTo program caused the corona to spread it's not their fault. Like at all.
hahahahahahaha Thank you sir. I'm booked using GoTo in Jan. Hope we're all still alive by then.
When they lifted the "lockdown" few months back they said we will reconsider if Tokyo ever hits 100 new cases per day.
Well we are now at 500 and they are still not proposing anything. And if the politicians decide to do that it will most probably be against the advice of the bureaucrats. That is because the infection fatality rate in the last month has gone down to 1.13% in all population and down to 0.06% for under 60 years old. (yeah that is 0.6 per mille).
That is basically below influenza rates so there is no bureaucrat in Ootemachi who will suggest closing down the place for that.
When they lifted the "lockdown" few months back they said we will reconsider if Tokyo ever hits 100 new cases per day.
Well we are now at 500 and they are still not proposing anything. And if the politicians decide to do that it will most probably be against the advice of the bureaucrats. That is because the infection fatality rate in the last month has gone down to 1.13% in all population and down to 0.06% for under 60 years old. (yeah that is 0.6 per mille).
That is basically below influenza rates so there is no bureaucrat in Ootemachi who will suggest closing down the place for that.
Are things really that bad? I was occasionally looking up from my computer screen last night while my other half was watching the Japanese news broadcast and I thought I saw the number at 400. That's not great but we almost hit that number here after the July 4th holiday and we're 1/10th the size of Tokyo. If you need to feel better, just watch the numbers in any major American city. With Thanksgiving around the corner and those hordes of unmasked, screaming idiots at the Trump election protest rallies all over the country, America will probably be in lock-down for the new year.
Things are not that bad here. But they are worse than they have been. I think there is more "good luck" than "good management" in the Japanese covid response. I also think there may be some "science" that will eventually explain why Asia has gotten off relatively lightly - and that may mean that caucasians in Japan may not be as safe as the average Yamada, and possibly not as safe as the Japan stats may lead them to believe.
I would guess it's not so much science, but rather, that Japanese give a shit enough to wear their masks and do their part to keep their communities safe.
I wonder what activities are really causing the uptick in cases.
Things are not that bad here. But they are worse than they have been. I think there is more "good luck" than "good management" in the Japanese covid response. I also think there may be some "science" that will eventually explain why Asia has gotten off relatively lightly - and that may mean that caucasians in Japan may not be as safe as the average Yamada, and possibly not as safe as the Japan stats may lead them to believe.
Viruses is the plural term, not virii.It seems that in Asia there are other endemic coronavirii (coronaviruses) thus generally population has a higher natural immunization.
YMMV but this info has popped up in general news in Japan and abroad.
Viruses is the plural term, not virii.
Viruses is the plural term, not virii.
That previous exposure to other coronaviruses cause better/higher/enhanced immunity is just one hypothesis out there as to the lesser infection rates.
Regarding being endemic in Asia, coronaviruses are endemic all over, just the normal public never really knew that nor cared (nobody cares about the common cold) and only ever heard about the badass ones (SARS, MERS, nCoV). Hell, even a lot of healthcare professionals didn’t know or care about them before.
- fall/autumn weather/temps???
- people are bored with the whole covid lifestyle - masks, hand sanitizer, social distancing, ???
- GoTo campaign ???
I walked 200m in central Tokyo and counted 7 from 17 people who were correctly wearing masks. It is easy to get complacent when the risk of catching it is low and the risk of death or serious health issues is low.
- fall/autumn weather/temps???
- people are bored with the whole covid lifestyle - masks, hand sanitizer, social distancing, ???
- GoTo campaign ???
I walked 200m in central Tokyo and counted 7 from 17 people who were correctly wearing masks. It is easy to get complacent when the risk of catching it is low and the risk of death or serious health issues is low.
Apparently, the US military is still moving troops in and out of Japan on a regular basis. No doubt some cases are being imported into Japan from the USA that way.
If protocol is anything like it is stateside, the military is also not required to report infection numbers to any civilian agency. We have a massive military presence here and the only time we hear anything is when there are massive outbreaks, like a recent one where a quarter of the sailors aboard a large vessel had tested positive. But I do think in most locations we're well past the point of trying to mitigate outbreaks by tracing individual infections. At this point we just need to adhere to basic safety protocols, distance if possible, mask up, wash your hands and hope these current three vaccines are produced and distributed as quickly as possible. The largest global inoculation effort in the history of mankind is about to kick off in about two and a half weeks, so cross your fingers and hope we don't fuck it up too bad in the U.S. and U.K. and the rest of the world can learn from our setbacks. It's going to be a December for the history books, that's for sure.
Let’s hope the vaccines do get rolled out quickly.