COVID Cases Continue to Drop in Tokyo and Japan
Here is an update on the COVID situation in Japan which continues to show signs of improvement each week:
The number of new COVID-19 infections in Japan’s capital city on Monday was 4,000 less than a week prior, according to public broadcaster NHK and city data.
Tokyo confirmed another 5,374 people were infected with the coronavirus respiratory disease, 4,258 fewer than Feb. 28.
Also Monday, the Japanese government lifted emergency measures in 13 prefectures across the country, from Niigata in central Honshu, the largest of Japan’s four main islands, to Kagoshima at the tip of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four, according to a Japan Times report.
The government also extended to March 21 the emergency in Tokyo and 17 other prefectures, including its neighbors Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama, thanks to a slow decline in case numbers, according to the Asahi Shimbun on Thursday. The emergency was scheduled to end Sunday.
It means that, among other measures, bars and restaurants are still encouraged to close early and to curtail their alcohol sales.
Japan reported 63,591 new cases Saturday and 184 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. In March, so far, Japan has averaged nearly 67,100 new COVID-19 cases per day.
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Who cares.
A bunch of people I know have a nice little cluster. Fully vaxxed and boosted. One just had covid two months ago.
They think I am vaxxed and boosted. I owe nobody the truth about anything anymore.
Some have the vapors over it.
…and some are telling me the vax is bullshìt, the booster is bullshìt, the whole thing is bullshìt.
“You don’t say? I heard it was safe and effective. Pretty odd that you are getting covid, though. I will have to look into this.”
I have been exposed to 3 different clusters in the last two weeks. I had one day of a scratchy throat and a tight chest a week ago. Who knows. I tested negative on a RAT but it was two days after my symptoms. Assuming everyone in this latest cluster got it at the same time, I should be getting symptoms today.
So far, nothing.
Wish me luck.
But I’m not going to need it.
Imagine a world where social credit was required to meet the fantasies of mentally-ill people…
IVERMECTIN
Wish Ivermectin was easy to get… but no… difficult.
Vaccine is free though.
But who wants horse paste and fish tank cleaner that humans have safely used for decades when you can have a vaccine that was tested for a few month and showed Safety and Effectiveness… at least in the data that wasn’t hidden and in the studies that were designed not to find any issues.
This whole 95% of adults vaccinated and 60%+ boosted yet record cases of corona and deaths is just anti-vax propaganda.
It must be… because…
SAFE AND EFFECTIVE
Don’t forget to get your 4th shot to stay that way for another 3 to 6 months.
How are you feeling today, CH? Still in the clear?
So I took people out to the club scene on both Saturday and Tuesday night.
We stayed at one table in one place both times but there is a lot of traffic in and out. We all know a lot of the people in the scene so there were always other people coming and going at our table.
You can buy a lot of cute young friends if you aren’t Scroogie McScrooge with a round of shots… especially if the workers know yours is water. No shìt, wow I can drink a lot.
Well, by Tuesday, people that I had contact with, and had contact with each other, started showing symptoms. I didn’t know this until right at the end of Tuesday night.
As of today, the people I was with on Saturday are all showing symptoms. Some of the people that visited our table on Saturday and Tuesday are also showing symptoms today.
I currently have no symptoms at all.
I can be a late adopter for the Saturday exposure and I wouldn’t expect the Tuesday exposure to develop symptoms before Friday. So who knows what will happen.
Statistically, worst case, I have a cold.
My vitamin D level is excellent, 43 on a range of 20 to 50. I am taking plenty of vitamin C. My zinc intake is temporarily slightly above recommended. This shouldn’t be a problem for a week. I am not into all the nutjob supplements but most people don’t get enough D and you can’t take too much C. All three seem to clearly benefit the immune system.
I am hoping I catch the “mild strain” and get actual broad immunity that covers future strains. It would be nice if this only has enough symptoms to let me know to test.
If anything develops, I will share.
Bonus: I may have had it last week. I felt very slight symptoms for a day. It was not enough to take any medicine. I was exposed to a guy 3 days before who was coughing and dripping. He is so mentally invested in the vaccine and booster that he denied it was covid and wouldn’t get tested. I know he missed two days of work. He sent me a picture of his thermometer with a normal temperature to prove it wasn’t covid.
I was busy so I didn’t take the RAT until 2 days later. I had no symptoms and it was negative.
Maybe he just had a cold, if those even still exist.
Now that WuFlu is receeding, no one is taking the bait on WW3, only John Kerry is sounding the alarm on “Climate Change”, and leftists are starting to lose elections around the world, expect a manufactured food shortage to be the next cause célèbre:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/09/global-governments-begin-warning-of-critical-food-shortages/
And this:
Quite right.
https://twitter.com/MissHarrietLucy/status/1501601712636899329?s=20&t=qxriSr8pC6uT1z-mA8W30g
Well well.
Considering that Covid-19 is on the decline with the incoming Korean conservative government to do away with restrictions, and the leftist government on the way out here in Koea, there is no reason for Dear Comrade Setnaffova to post his fake news and misinformation in the ROK Drop.
So he would have to look elsewhere, and what better than an attempted insurrection against Joe Biden.
But this is a blog about Korea. If he wants to post stuff against Joe Biden then he should do all of us a favor and leave this blog.
If he wants to stay here, then he should stick to comments regarding Korea and stop posting fake news and misinformation.
Sorry KP, no matter how close you try to get you can’t smell my hair and I won’t date you.
Joe Biden’s inept foreign policy and misguided military priorities make his failed administration fully unprepared to respond appropriately to North Korean provocation.
♬ I got my cake and ate it too.♬
Oh boy! United is letting unvaccinated people go back to work. Someone was praising their twat CEO and I can’t remember why, but at the time I provided a video of congressional testimony. The CEO claimed only about 80 people were furloughed:
“the Chicago-based carrier wrote that about 2,220 of its employees have met vaccine-related reasonable accommodations to return to work.”
Gee 2200 sure sounds like more than 80. From the United’s own memo. So good of them to let thousands of people go back to work now after taking away their ability to feed their families, as well as their health insurance, for months.
And by the way, there was a clause that eliminated the ability for those employees to work for another airline in the interim or they would lose their ability to go back.
Hopefully the employees of United will be able to sue for back pay. Though unfortunately that will probably lead to another government bailout for that terribly run airline. Think they have had 3 bailouts so far. But with this administration, United is the government’s favorite.
For anyone concerned…
As of today, everyone I was with on last Saturday and Tuesday has covid. 100%. I have two other close friends that caught it elsewhere in different clusters.
My wife has had a mild cold since Thursday and tested positive today. OTC medicine is controlling the symptoms. She thinks she got it from two coworkers who finished their 7 day quarentine but were still sniffling around on Monday and Tuesday.
I have had no symptoms and taken no precautions. Outside, I tell masktards to go suck a dìck. That includes the police. I will not wear a badge of compliance or accommodate the mental illness of others.
I wear a mask in an elevator simply because it is better not to provoke crazy people in enclosed spaces.
When this fades away, people will look back and think WTF was that mask thing all about… like we look back and wonder of 9 out of 10 doctors really smoke Kool or if Coke is truly better than milk for baby.
Bonus: Everybody i know with covid is vaxxed and most are boosted… except my wife. The group of antivaxxers i know have not caught it although they have also been exposed at work or play several times over the last few weeks.
It would seem a 4th shot is dead on arrival. None of these people trust the vaccine anymore. For some, the side effects were harsh, perhaps worse than their current covid, and they don’t want to go through it again. A couple are “think how much worse it would have been if I hadn’t been vaccinated.” but they are now even laughed off by the other vaxxers. I don’t see any indication that the vaccine is reducing severity. My only observation is that the two unvaxxed who caught it has mild colds just like everyone else.
The thing to look for now is if the science is correct in predicting natural immunity will generally last 18+ months (length of study) but the vaccinated run the risk of catching it again in a couple of months.
Let’s see if we have another wave this summer.
CH, Since you haven’t had the vax but told everyone you did, are you now saying, “Whew! Sure am glad I got that fourth booster!” LOL
Thought this image was cute:
Update: met my anti-vax group tonight.
Found out that ~25% got vaccinated but didn’t want to tell me. I am not going to ride them. They are my friends and no amount of Karen scolding will unvax them.
Management is the correct strategy if it is needed or can be done.
I already suspected this. They used to be loudly antivax whenever new news came up. They got quiet around the QR code time. Some were getting pressure from work. They want to date girls and go to the gym and keep their jobs.
They sold themselves cheaply and after a couple of months, it didn’t even matter. We talked about this. All they had to do is wait. They are young and couldn’t.
They are highly regretful, as the QR codes and all the other stick and carrot fùckery didn’t last long. One guy had months of heart problems. He wants to believe it is over and done. I really don’t know.
Before covid, any chest pain, irregular heartbeat, etc., was a serious medical event and you should seek immediate medical attention. After covid, chest pain has been a very rare temporary condition that resolves on its own and is no cause for concern.
There are types of heart inflammation that go away and there are types that give a 5 year life expectancy. Finding which type you had requires an invasive procedure that nobody is doing.
Autopsies would show it. One wants to believe coroners not talking about finding heart damage is a good sign but I have had a doctor straight up tell me they will lose their career for talking about their truthful vaccine observations. I don’t trust the medical establishment any more. And if autopsies were showing no heart damage, there would be a big campaign. “We inspect all hearts of the vaccinated who died for other reasons and we never find damage. Yeah vaccine!”
My wife is almost fine. Wednesday night to Saturday night mild cold. OTC medicine fully tames the symptoms now.
I have experienced nothing. I really think I must have had it for a single day two weeks ago.
My vaxxed and boosted friends who have covid are all having a mild cold as well.
The Safe and Effective vaccine is not effective. Anybody who says otherwise lacks the critical thinking skills to be treated as fully human.
Anybody who says it is safe is a fool or a liar. It has not been tested long enough to know that. There are many indications that it has short-term danger for many. Long-term effects are unknown until we wait a long term. There are theoretical effects that may be a problem.
So that’s an update.
United pilot friend of mine said he had a dull ache in the area of his heart for over a month after the second vaccine. He didn’t get it checked out (pilots are always afraid to lose their license and a medical condition will force retirement). It went away. He didn’t get the booster. Now United has changed its policy and he didn’t need it if he had waited. But he has 3 kids at home and could not be without a salary or health insurance for that long.
Really wish I could remember what it was that poster thought was so great about United’s CEO. Perhaps he can tell me again. Think it was Korean person.
CH, glad you and the missus are doing well.