almostshat comments

Maybe the security team should be watching the crowd rather than, literally, watching his back. And armed with more than briefcases.

Volks is superb. Unlimited salad, soup, bread and coffee with your steak or burger. Love it!

The media in many countries do not publish the names of assassins/murderers and thus deny them the infamy and notoriety they crave. No such concept here.

Bravo. I was expecting the number to be two or three. Blimey, this is more than the number of refugees they accept annually!

Almost as bad as stealing someone else's food out of the fridge in a gaijin house!

That's awful. (wtf is an awl anyway?)

Stoopid moron.

3 years is too long a gap for retesting over 70. People can deteriorate mentally very quickly the older they get. Should be 1 year gaps max. It ain't rocket science.

Mind boggling incompetence. Don't people in Japan have brains?

Lightning reaction.

My 18 year old daughter has just had her second jab here in the UK. She will be coming to Japan for her gap year in September. Will she be the only double - jabbed 18 year old in Japan? Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to my booster jab in the autumn. (For comparison)

At least they were together. He must be a very caring son.

Genuinely asking:

How were the restrictions at the match/stadium like, how about pubs, trains, buses, and whatnot?

How many people (rough %) wear/wore masks?

Vinke san, the England - Scotland game was a perfect storm of Covid spreading possibilities. An age old rivalry between two teams that drew thousands of Scots to London, even those without tickets, who just wanted to soak up the atmosphere and get rat - arsed in Leicester Square, after a year of being cooped up. English fans too. Football plus summer = booze, crowds, mayhem. All social distancing out the window. Impossible to 'control'. England - Germany game was even more insane. And god only knows what will happen if we (England) beat Ukraine on Saturday and are back at Wembley for the semi final. Pandemonium. 3rd wave already well underway in the UK in spite of vaccinations. You can't control joy, excitement, celebration, drunkenness, mass hysteria.

Fortunately for those in Japan, I can't foresee much of that happening during the Olympics.

Here in the UK 15% of the Scotland fans who came down to London for the Euros match against England have tested positive on their return home. Any superspreader sports events on the horizon in Japan?

Is he trying to shake hands?

As a sporting event, the Olympics are going to be pointless and meaningless. Receiving your gold medal in a cavernous, empty, silent staduum? What's the point? No one is talking about the 'sport'. Anyone who watches it on TV is just going to be thinking about Covid and how they wish all these people were not here.

Pathetic. Nothing less than hara kiri is enough for such a heinous crime.

All that money, travelling the world, staying in 5 star hotels? Tough life. Give it all up and get a job at Dennys. Or, here's an idea, do the press events and just sit there and say 'no comment'.

This will be the biggest super - spreader event ever. Not only importing every imaginable strain of the virus into Japan, but also exporting those variants all over the world after the games. What a souvenir!

Third world.

I think many, many more meetings are required before any decisive action (lol) is taken. Nero and his fiddle come to mind.

Thinking out of the box required. For example, here in the UK the gap between the first and second jabs was extended to 12 weeks so that many many more people could have some protection, rather than much fewer people having full protection. Controversial at first, but it has worked. (Sorry to bang on about the UK but I live here now. I lived in Japan for 20 years and as always am appalled at the incompetence of the government over there. Plus ça change.)

Almost half a million vaccinations a day here in the UK. The one thing the UK government has got right.

Plus ça change

Compared with 40,000 plus new cases and 1200 deaths a day here in the UK, in spite of lockdown and school closures, you're doing very well. What's Japan's secret?

Compared

The most important thing is that females should preserve their modesty.. Wouldn't want to freeze to death in an immodest manner, would you? What a load of tosh.

I was born without a sense of smell (congenital anosmia). You don't miss what you've never had.

Sounds like a seppuku job to me. Oh, the shame.

I could never work out why people in Japan wear masks- to protect themselves or others?