Coronavirus cluster reported at Nara university rugby team

And just a couple weeks ago I had a brief conversation with a rugby coach along Tama River (Yes I wore my mask while talking to him) about the dangers of him having his ruby time practicing. Why must people wait for something bad to happen to act. What ever happened to preventive measures?

The team has not played against other clubs since March, and social distancing measures were taken at the dorm's cafeteria, according to the university.

Yeah and how many people live in each room? Shared bathrooms, shared facilities, and I am guessing, from experience, their idea of "social distancing" in the cafeteria, was to remove every other chair, if that, and no one wore masks while entering or leaving, and disinfecting surfaces prior to and after use, was an after thought.

Stop scolding.

Give it up. Disease is going to be around until it isn’t.

I am trying to imagine a social distancing scrum.

I am trying to imagine a social distancing scrum.

@gaijintraveller - scrums were clearly OK because social distancing measures were taken in the cafeteria.

We had this a few days ago with a school soccer team. Why do schools think it's OK for them to go about business as usual with team sports club activities when the professional leagues have been closed down while proper effective measures were put into place (virtual bubbles, frequent PCR testing) in order to try and maintain their health?

Tenri University, and whoever made this ridiculous decision to play / practice rugby in the middle of a contagious pandemic, should be thoroughly ashamed that they've put the health of 168+ people at risk. Hopefully they all recover with no long-term damage done, but goodness me where is the common sense with these people.

It appears that chanting Namu Tenri-O-no-Mikoto! has no significant effect against the virus.

Now where's my Nobel Prize?

Lotsa high school sport teams in full swing. There was a big track meet in Nara, couple of weeks ago at the Konoike Stadium. I saw hundreds of athletes male & female walk by our building, maybe half wearing masks and absolutely few practicing social distancing, large clusters of teenagers walking together. The absurdity of continuing athletics during a contagion is foolish. Why do they continue such behavior?????

Wear masks! Everybody!! It helps prevent the spread of the virus.

this is a rugby university team. You should watch a rugby game on YouTube. Wearing a scrap of paper on you nose and mouth (and of course masks are totally useless without combined eyewear) is absolutely no use in transmission/infection protection while playing and training in rugby. It is a full contact sport where participants share each other’s sweat and blood.

Oh dear heaven forbid. We can’t have healthy people continuing a sport, when they have an illness with a 99 percent recovery rate.

“Wear masks! Everybody!! It helps prevent the spread of the virus.”

Do you have conclusive proof of this? Because the European epidemiologists say they don’t do much. And most links conclude with “maybe”, “might”.

Do not claim something unproven as fact. This aspect re masks is what annoys me the most about this so-called pandemic

“Wear masks! Everybody!! It helps prevent the spread of the virus.”

Do you have conclusive proof of this?

There is some evidence that masks help prevent the spread of the virus. Read around.

Because the European epidemiologists say they don’t do much.

Which ones? Are they all in agreement?

Don’t do much? So they do something?

I've been to Tenri once. I have no desire to ever go back there again.

There is literarily nothing to do there except drink and hang out in dorm rooms in Tenri. Rugby or not, these guys and pretty much any dorm life people in the country will eventually get it while living in such tight quarters.

The team has not played against other clubs since March, and social distancing measures were taken at the dorm's cafeteria, according to the university.

Are they saying some of the guys never went out or had no contact with the town folks,

, friends and family members off the dormitory.

Fifty-five players as well as six coaches and staff have tested negative for the virus, while the remaining 89 team members will be tested soon, according to the officials.

I guess, Tenri a city of 67,000 people has not been used to performing 168 test a day and had to spread it over a number of days.

Wear masks!

At this point it's ridiculous to wear a mask. In the article it even admits that they have mild to no symptoms. Covid-19 is basically the common cold at this point. No young people have died and the majority is over 80.

This is the biggest larp I ever seen.

Not really a big deal. These guys just want to get out there and play rugby. Let them do it.

I've said this before in response to other news articles about Covid-19, and thats coaches aren't doing a damn thing to stop the spread of the virus. In response to a soccer team cluster, I said that soccer teams weren't social distancing during 'shugo' or when they were eating their lunch. Looks like the same thing is happening with rugby. Meanwhile, teachers in Japan are required to eear masks and enforce social distancing with their students. Coaches on the other hand seem to think sports are the exception. They can't even change their ways even when it comes to non-covid related issues. Very stubborn people Japanese sports coaches. Lots of bullying too.

If all team members get infected then they can practice and play freely all they want after.

Imagine the advantage they'll have over teams hamstrung with observing proper precautions.

Maybe this will be my mentality if I'm a sports coach myself.

“There is some evidence that masks help prevent the spread of the virus. Read around.”

I did. Nothing conclusive. The day muzzles are proven as effective as birth control will be the day I glue one to my face.

Until then, I’ll use my own discretion

“Please wear masks, if not for your benefit but for others!!!”

Hilarious

Do you live in Japan? Good thing if you do because you could be fined in other countries.

And good thing you could work without wearing a mask.

“There is some evidence that masks help prevent the spread of the virus. Read around.”

I did. Nothing conclusive

You are not going to get, nor should you expect, conclusive evidence with a still relatively unknown disease.

Please wear masks, if not for your benefit but for others!!!”

Hilarious

Not hilarious. I have an elderly mother with health conditions. There is evidence that wearing masks can help prevent the spread of this virus. Everyone in contact with her wears masks. This is considerate. Probably or might is good enough here.

If we were in a situation where masks simply protected the wearer, I’d have no problem with people refusing to wear masks. I’m all in favour of smaller populations and raising the average IQ, but there are others to think about.

“If we were in a situation where masks simply protected the wearer, I’d have no problem with people refusing to wear masks. I’m all in favour of smaller populations and raising the average IQ, but there are others to think about.”

You’re welcome to wear a muzzle if it helps you sleep better at night

Your version of protecting your mother is wrapping her in cotton wool, fair enough. But maybe she doesn’t want that. Perhaps many of the elderly and at risk don’t want special treatment because they’re “at risk”.

There is some evidence muzzles work? There is some evidence they don’t. Hmm, Abe here we are, full Japanese summer, 80 percent humidity.

I wear muzzles when I must, on trains, at work, and if I want to go to a department store. Japanese culture demands it.

But beyond that? My own discretion.