People here are going about their lives - but everyone is still remaining vigilant. Is still remains a very delicate situation. All it needs is one irresponsible superspreader to screw up everything - as was what happened with Korea
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People here are going about their lives - but everyone is still remaining vigilant. Is still remains a very delicate situation. All it needs is one irresponsible superspreader to screw up everything - as was what happened with Korea
CCP is still trash I see, politics and party unity over national health concerns and general welfare of China. Also an obligatory fuck you to the WHO, who continue to praise the CCP in all that it does, regardless of facts on the ground or their use of authoritarian force to enforce misinformation. They still wont let Taiwan have a seat at the table of information so as not to offend the CCP.
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This type of 'the virus originated in the US from US gov and was planted' type of conspiracy bs is all over WeChat atm from semi-party affiliated outlets. Hmm, where did we last see this 'blame the US for CN-origin instability' before? Same party, same shit. As an American in Shanghai, it's more frightening to see people you know sharing this stuff on their moments eating it up more-so then the threat the actual virus will directly pose to me.
But god forbid people in Wuhan be allowed share their own experiences on WeChat without getting a visit from the police.
I'm just back from Hong Kong, which had cases whilst I was there and the day to day effect of things vs how some of it is portrayed in the media is funny. The high streets were still busy as were the restaurants etc, people were obviously very aware about hygiene and doing stuff like having hand sanitizer where handwashing was not available.
The great thing here is everyone was wearing masks but it did create an eerie feeling. My worry is in the west a lot of people would feel the need to wear masks would not be for them. And there would be less societal pressure to do so. Unlike in Asia.
The problem with that is that people who are not sick should not wear masks anyway. They are running out of masks for medical staff.
Scary to see how fast the number of cases has risen worldwide. Life here in Tokyo hasn't changed so much in the past few weeks. Supermarkets have enough supplies of everything except for masks and hand sanitizer. Anecdotally it seems a few more people are wearing masks than usual around this time of the year. Trains are still packed. Took a walk in Asakusa today, still plenty of tourists (it's a national holiday today). The daily news about new cases in Japan is also a bit scary.
Update on the situation in Alabama.
Feds backtrack on transfer of quarantined coronavirus patients to Alabama
Feds backtrack on transfer of quarantined coronavirus patients to Alabama
www.abcnews.go.com/Health/feds-backtrack-transfer-quarantined-coronavirus-patients-alabama/story?id=69162771
How much of a shit person do you have to be to not help those patients.
Legal action, what the fuck?!
And another in Bahrain.
All of these, plus the recent case in Lebanon, were recently returned from Iran. Which underlines how wide the spread in Iran must be.
Costa Mesa did the exact same thing, minus the Trump pandering
NIMBYism in fine display
A colleague of mine sometimes (i.e., once every 10 days) go to the main branch of the company where a positive case has been found in the near local branch. Main and local branches have been both closed now, to find out how many positive people are. I think I should be a bit careful about.. At this point the probability that I must be checked are not non-existent.
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Letting people clear out supermarkets has to be one of the most irresponsable things we've done
What line do you generally use? I am finding Tozai to be a little less pack than normal.
I know
but like, it's 2020, we aren't supposed to have such massive outbreaks of new unknown diseases.
How could we avoid outbreaks at priori of new unknown diseases?
Quarantine is the only solution to try to limit the damages.
If people will teel me to stay in quarantine (possibilities are rising now), I will stay, because everyone must collaborate in this moment, thinking both about himself and all the others.
Juts to be clear, I understand what needs to happen to containt the outbreak and so on, it just baffles me that with all the advances in medicine, science, healthcare and so on, such an outbreak is still possible nowadays.
i wish someone let the coronavirus know the current year so it changes its mind
Coronavirus can be spread by asymptomatic people, that is a real problem. Consequently, when you find the first positive case in a country, it is just the tip of the icerberg. Who knows how many other positive cases are present, in the meantime?
What? It's a disease. Viruses don't exactly care about what year it is.
Not before seen variant of an virus that is highly infectious while we have no real grasp on how it works and spreads? Yeah, it will be going to places.
Developing things like vaccine takes time so it's safe for people.
Oh I didn't know that
It's really difficult to be up to date to everything when every major publication just goes for the "5 MORE KILLED BY CORONAVIRUS" shock article.
I can't believe what I'm reading, the silly selfishness is out of control.
Your consultant is being quarantined for the good of people around him, and possibly his country and the whole world.
This sounds harsh, but deal with it, because there are people out there who are far more unfortunate than not being able to meet their consultant because of this virus.
Afghanistan identifies first confirmed coronavirus patient - health minister
Afghanistan's minister of public health said on Monday the country had identified its first case of coronavirus.
www.reuters.com
The situation in Iran is worse than anything you could imagine.
50 death only in Qom.
Recent news In Persian
50 death only in Qom.
Recent news In Persian
I don't care about him being quarantined, I'd rather know he's safe.
I just think this whole situation is crazy, I never thought we'd get such an outbreak.
Afghanistan is literally one of the worst places for this disease to spread. Hopefully it can be contained early there because so many people are going to suffer due to the lack of infrastructure and care.Afghanistan identifies first confirmed coronavirus patient - health minister
Afghanistan's minister of public health said on Monday the country had identified its first case of coronavirus.
I truly wonder what the real number of cases in Iran is because obviously there is no way the current case count is accurate. The fact that many foreigners flying in and out of Iran are catching it makes me think that Iran could have the second highest case count after China.
At the risk of this coming off as nitpicking, its not actually at all confirmed that COVID can spread asymptomatically. That one Chinese study is a case of a literal n=1 and has a lot of possible confounders (like the family getting infected by another, unknown source)
Today there are photos of people in Italy bringing trolleys to the grocery store to fill them up as well which is mind blowing to me. And from what I see this behaviour spans all generations, from boomers to millenials, to generation Z.
Grandfather died this morning (not of coronavirus for those who haven't read the first post), I'm not even there right now, I was visiting my boyfriend in central Italy when everything went down: grandpa worsened, virus outbreak. We'll have a small funeral wednesday with just close family members, that's the best we can do considering the situation. So tomorrow I'll be driving four hours alone towards corona-virus infested northern Italy to bury my grandfather. That's eery. At least there won't be much traffic I guess? I wanted to drive home today but I wasn't in the mental condition to do it honestly, I was panicking just trying to pack things. This is mostly about the loss in my family and being away from my parents this moment than the virus itself, even if It doesn't help.
I'm almost OT so I'll stop there. TLDR: Life sucks.
Also found nothing has changed. Just the huge queues to buy masks/hand sanitiser are about the only change I've noticed. Saw an insane queue at a pharmacy in Nicotama the other day.
My Japanese friend also commented how he finds it odd there doesn't seem to be much worry. Maybe a good thing?
I am so sorry for your loss, my sincere condolences. I read your first post and that is quite a bad situation to be in.
I wonder if they started to examine young kids and babies more because to my knowledge there are hardly any kids under 10 years who got infected by now.
which is odd since i.e. "common" influenza viruses severly attack younger folks (and older ones) as their immune system isn't that potent.
There must be reason for that.
I (from austria) regulary travel to italy and back and your idea is not manageable. Italy is a huge country with 60 million citizens, a HUGE coastline with hundrets of ports and it's one of the biggest economic powers in the EU with massive daily tradings with it's neighbours (austria, switzerland etc).
A complete lockdown would bankrupt italy within weeks and drag it's trading partners into hell too.
You can't just close the borders. Tenthousands of trucks would be stuck immediatly.
Not to talk about the hundrets of "unofficial" border crossings throughout the country. You just can't check and control them all. Since borders are officialy gone in the EU it's even harder to manage.
which is odd since i.e. "common" influenza viruses severly attack younger folks (and older ones) as their immune system isn't that potent.
There must be reason for that.
I (from austria) regulary travel to italy and back and your idea is not manageable. Italy is a huge country with 60 million citizens, a HUGE coastline with hundrets of ports and it's one of the biggest economic powers in the EU with massive daily tradings with it's neighbours (austria, switzerland etc).
A complete lockdown would bankrupt italy within weeks and drag it's trading partners into hell too.
You can't just close the borders. Tenthousands of trucks would be stuck immediatly.
Not to talk about the hundrets of "unofficial" border crossings throughout the country. You just can't check and control them all. Since borders are officialy gone in the EU it's even harder to manage.