chikv comments

Meaningless bravado that will amount to nothing at the end, the issue is important and should be discussed like that instead of putting too much attention to this.

I would love to be as important as a famous person dogs so investigations would be also done so quickly for me.

A tiny speck compared with the need, but I guess anything helps

How about a "Go to nowhere" campaign? Where transportation, highway fees, etc. get a nice extra charge so people find more expensive to travel during the state of emergency? Either people stay home or there is an extra amount of cash to support the hospitals treating covid patients.

Taiwan feels desperate in this, obviously is in Japan best interests to support it, but at this point I don't think there is anything it can offer, if the worst come to happen Japan will give little more than declarations of how "regrettable" things are.

Opposition criticizing Suga is like fishing on a barrel, but I haven't heard anything that they would do differently to correct the many problems of the current government. Put forward a real platform and criticism will be the cherry on top.

It is a small amount of support but hopefully the beginning of a trend where proper, regulated work from home can become a reality.

I can already see the excuses that are going to be used for this, a slap in the face for the people waiting for months for a vaccine probably even with a smile.

This seems like a problem that will keep red hot for long time, the worst thing is that this is going to be repeated endlessly since interventions from other countries are never done with the best interest of the actual victims of the violence.

sad to see these kind of news, but even sadder that I know nothing will be done about the underlying problem that causes it.

Even in these difficult times it is nice to have such good news, the effort of countless people making humankind advance in leaps

No symptoms, detected in routine testing, not really news worthy

I really wish I could have been present, I have seen some very limited showings of similar performances and it has always been extraordinary.

So, who is going to get punished for allowing this apart from the criminal?

This will be a very interesting case to follow, hopefully it will be solved out in the open instead of some secret deal.

I don't trust this statement, there has been delays and problems all the way, I can totally see the vaccines stored months while vaccination efforts crawl forward.

Will it teach how to survive the slave-like style of working for an animation studio?

Hopefully they will put the current movie for free on the TV, I like the series but not enough to pay a ticket.

I liked a lot his first few books, but cannot stand the recent ones, it may be that he changed his style but maybe it is me who changed.

Sorry for the change of account, I am using a shared computer right now and did not notice someone else was logged to the site.

-virusrex

Wrong, not just my unqualified opinion at all, just keep using your big words and ignore the reality staring you in the face, its worked up until now hasnt it?

None of your sources support your unqualified opinion. People's opinion about things already debunked even here (such as what the WHO can or not say without proof) are not enough to deny that in general all health workers of the world that use the collaboration that the WHO offers do not consider it "useless trash" but the contrary.

It's not 0. It's not 10. You have 99 Scholars still left to challenge the government, complain, make sure Japan doesn't move an inch from Article 9. Make sure we are as weak as possible. Don't worry nothing is changing.

If a very important decision is left to be done without any justification what do you think would happen if any of the other scientist attack something the government does, even if validly? would the rejected scientists be called back? or will the new dissidents rejected as well until the council is just a meaningless congregation of yes men?

Medical schools have their reasons to select male doctors over females (which would disappear with actual, real equality in the workplace in hospitals) so to a certain point it is understandable that they opt for accepting more male students, but even accepting this situation as inevitable (which is not) that still leaves them as wrong for doing it while hiding the bias.

If the school is going to be segregating based on gender and it thinks it is justified then it should do it openly so the students will know their chances.

It seems quite obvious that only one person in this conversation have any idea about vaccines. Quite educative in many senses.

This should be common sense, if your only options are to call an ambulance or wating in pain or fear for a day most people will not hesitate in calling an ambulance, even if its not really necessary. An after hours clinic where people can go and have a simple treatment or an evaluation so they can see if their problems are dangerous its a necessity.

The patients get treatment, the doctors in big hospitals can focus on real emergencies, the doctors running the small after-time clinics make an extra buck for their dedication and the government saves money by dedicating only the necessary amount of resources according to their urgency. How anybody can think this is not necessary?

The police should investigate the JT commenters

JT is nothing special, in any place where news about gropers are commented you will find a lot of people saying that unfortunately running away appears to be the only real defense against a false accusation.

@notagain

No one should be listening to music, using their phone or doing anything else distracting while cycling.

In this case I do understand the rule is not that you should avoid music but avoid being distracted or being unable to hear your surroundings. So the same as when driving, hearing music is not bad by itself as long as you can prove you can still hear properly.

Nevertheless, is not clear this earphones count as not blocking your hearing so I don't think the police would be happy with cyclists wearing them.

As every year the people with the irrational fear of masks keep appearing...

The same as every other health measures mask are extremely useful when used properly and do help preventing contagions, I still keep wondering why people keep treating them as some especial things that never works even when used properly.

Its exactly the same as washing your hands, if you do it properly it helps a lot, if you don't do it properly it has no value, but then again I don't see people giving bad advice like "people should just stop washing badly and just never go to the toilet nor touch anything".

I you wait until you can identify someone with flu close to you to take preventive measures you will be too late. That is the meaning of announcing the flu season, so people will dedicate significant resources to prevent it.

Some things just suck, and Japanese face masks are at the top of that list.

Again, as every year, with the people with the irrational fear of masks or vaccines. Used properly, masks (even 100 yen ones) can be a very effective measure to prevent new infections. Used improperly not so much, but that is the same with all other measures.

Lots of people don't wash properly their hands, but the solution is NOT to ask people to stop washing their hands completely, the solution is of course to educate people to do it properly. Its easier to learn how to wear a mask properly than to wash your hands properly.

How much active ingredients are in pills, compared to juice?

googling for a minute got me "72 mg total, equivalent to 20 ounces of cranberry juice"

The choosing of patients its of course expected, if you want to study UTIs you have to go to groups of people that frequently present them, else you would need to enroll thousands of healthy volunteers to get a couple of dozens with infections during a year. There is no need to adjust for their situation because the supposed effect of cranberries is not dependent on the patient ability to take care of themselves but on the alleged production of hippuric acid and proanthocyanidins. The authors anyway did a really good job with detailed criteria to evaluate symptomatic infection in this specific population in order to make it objective so its not just checking if the patient had little or lots of pain.

As explained before you have to make it a blind study if you want to get any significative results, there is nothing in the process of making the pills that would make it different for UTIs than the juice but that will mask the taste so the patients will not know what are they taking that is why you can't just give them juice or water

And yes this is only one study (not the first of course) but statistically the results can be demonstrated as significative therefore the value of the study is very high, if you have absolutely no information about the effect then you can understandably think it might be useful to drink the juice, but if you search carefully and find nothing in a well designed study you would need an even bigger and better study to recommend it to patients.

Anyway you can read more directly from JAMA http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2576821