Bernard Marx comments

I figured out away to get a virus test done if you have any concern without ever entering a hospital. Whenever, you see a Red Cross blood donor bus just go there and I am sure they will be testing immediately for the virus.

Well, there it is; the dumbest thing I've read all day.

Who cares what the government says anyways? No way I'm spending a week off shut up inside!

No, it would be pointless, and largely ignored. I need to work to earn money for my family. I would have to be at death's door NOT to go to work.

Sorry, 800 million.

but actually took less than 1% of the total 80 billion yen for managing the project

80 million yen ain't bad for doing basically nothing.

No different than normal.

These guys look like real policeman, as opposed to the boys/old men you see playing policemen in Japan.

I hate the Olympics, so I hope they get cancelled. Totally corrupt organization.

3.5 tatami room? This is Japan in 2020.

Never gonna happen.

Yeah it's not going to happen, may as well start now giving out the Athletes Village Apartments to the homeless

What?! Why should they get a free ride off the back of the taxpayer? Much more deserving people should get priority.

These are imported from China and/or Russia.

Good lad.

The problem with Covid-19 is that it isn't serious enough. If the global pandemic were something like ebola, and people were leaking from every orifice, then people would take precautions much more seriously.

Amazing. Rather than pay a living wage, these places would willingly pay out for a robot.

It cost me 2000 yen here in Kyushu.

I wish I could just magic money up out of thin air, like the Japanese government does.

Good to see the Brexit fear mongerers wrong yet again.

I did, recently. Came back negative. No regrets.

Great speech from a great President!

About time. It's been one massive overreaction.

Putin.

You’ll be better off back in your home country!

How so? Not in my case.

You could be in an induced coma on a ventilator, working up to being a lifelong invalid, too tired to ever get a job again.

I would just commit suicide in that case. Life simply wouldn't be worth living. Suicide is better than being unemployed and homeless.

Living paycheck to paycheck in a foreign country, with nothing put away for emergencies and unforseen events is rather foolhardy. It makes life more dangerous for the locals in times like this.

Ya think? Okay, you want to step in and ask my boss for a raise for me, or negotiate with my student loans company for my about repayments? At least I don't have a family to worry about.

My job will probably go by the end of the year. But I would prefer not to catch this virus for which we have no vaccine and no antibodies. I hate to say it but I'd rather be unemployed.

I'd rather risk the virus any day. Being unemployed is a no-no for me, as I have no savings to fall back on. I'd rather get sick and lay in hospital watching TV than be homeless.

That's awesome, and pretty sobering. Imagine something bigger just smashing in unannounced one day on Tokyo.

That is one of the biggest loads of rubbish I have ever read; Yeltsin was not that different from Putin. Boris Yeltsin successfully launched a self-coup in 1993, illegally dissolving the Russian pariament. If anything, it's the Russian people who severely lack a spine to force change.

I wasn't talking about Yeltsin. I was talking about the run of ineffective, short-term leaders they had until Putin came along. Guys like Viktor Chernomyrdin, Sergey Kiriyenko, Yevgeny Primakov, Sergei Stepashin etc.. If you want to debate me on Russian politics and history, something I have a degree in, let's do it.

Good news. Putin is good for Russia. Russia has always had strong, autocratic leaders. Look back to the nineties to see what happens when you have the alternative.

Err, Japan was never "closed" to begin with.

They should make them 100 yen each. That might have some effect.