haloerika comments

The virus is all over. They might as well lift ban on all countries, or ban all countries. It is not really relevant where it originated from at this point.

US keeps destabilizing nations by spewing anti-China or whatever propaganda so nations will continue to buy arms and military service from them.

@Goodlucktoyou

How about using drones?

Drones are not immune from the weather.

Btw, it is Eduardo Sareno, not Sareno Edvarodo.

How were they able to instruct people to put on life jackets AFTER the ship has capsized?

China bad, China evil. US created this propaganda so Japan would hire them as bodyguards and make them buy arms.

The Lancet's article on media hype https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30070-9

Micro-reporting on this issue everyday is only making matters worse than it is.

Many people obviously have jumped the bandwagon because of it.

We are all exposed to deadly viruses daily even before corona virus.

Did you know that there is a Rubella virus outbreak going on right now in Japan? Some people probably don't because we are too focused on Coronavirus only.

Correction: surrounding this virus*

We're in media hype mode now.*

The virus has been "spreading" in many countries for a month now but most countries are reporting like 10 cases per day.

During flu season, some schools get 10 cases per day.

Entire countries getting 10 cases is statistically incredibly small.

This comment nicely displays the posters lack of knowledge regarding this virus.

@Chip Star

Or maybe you don't. Have you been getting your facts from major news outlets only? Have you ever read scientific journals. Scientists also disagrees on the hype surrounding around this virus.

It is default to take precaution no matter what, but not just on this particular virus.

$10 billion only pays for Amazon's own carbon footprint. It may not even be enough. Give the world more of that AWS money.

The designated health centers are of no help if you suspect you have coronavirus.

In order to be qualify as a potential SARS-CoV-2 carrier, you must have the symptoms such as fever and respiratory problems plus you must satisfy one of the conditions below.

Must have had direct contact with a confirmed infected person.

Had made close contact with people that came from Hubei or Zheijang.

In other words, if you are symptomatic but do not satisfy the conditions above, just think of it as common cold or some flu.

@itsonlyrocknroll

The Government of Japan needs to strongly impress on the Government of China to fully/candidly revel the origins of COVID-19!!!!!

Though the research is not published yet (about to), researchers are suspecting the source of the virus are Pangolins. The information that the new coronavirus came from bats are just suspicion also, because SARS (also a coronavirus) came from bats.

'COVID-19' is the name of the disease. The name of the virus that causes the disease is 'SARS-CoV-2' (the official name of the novel coronavirus).

@David Van Cleef of course I could look for it. The point is to make the information easily found.

Please provide links to those 'nationwide health-care centers in charge of responding to the outbreak'.

There are false negatives and asymptomatic infections that is why they cannot effectively separate infected from non-infected, hence the quarantine. Just treating them all as infected is way more effective. Moving people from one place to another is easier said than done. It will just infect more people especially the medics, and then medics to their colleagues, and colleagues to their families, families to friends, and so forth.

Filmore2, Japan also did not let them off the ship. Exactly what a quarantine should be, ISOLATION. Now they let them off, good luck with that.

A few hundred people getting infected is better than thousands or millions of people getting infected. They could have contracted the virus even though they are not showing symptoms yet. The virus is not a death sentence for the healthy people. However, we could not risk infecting those who aren't that are outside of that ship. There are many Japanese that are above 40. People with Type 1 diabetes (an autoimmune disease) are the ones in danger also.

Correction:

it should not be allowed on roads*

First, they must ensure these e-bikes have a proximity sensor where it applies brakes when it's near anything.

Second, seat belts and helmets should be required. Third, it should be small and slow enough to be safe on sidewalks. Fourth, it should be allowed on roads.

Not all people get pneumonia from this virus. According to the data, only old people had severe symptoms and those with other illnesses. Many people have mistook coronavirus as a common cold/flu and had gone unreported. It will plateau eventually and be out of trend. As for now, I will continue to take precaution as I normally would.

Too much hype on this one. However, it is in Japan's best interest to jump on the bandwagon in order to appease the people who are in the state of panic right now.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/as-the-world-focuses-on-coronavirus-dont-forget-about-the-deadly-flu-2020-02-06

@yorkiebob

61,000 died of Influenza from 2018-2019. Flu viruses also change all the time. nCOV appears to be very virulent now because it is new. It will plateau eventually. There is virtually no way of containing it.

Just the other day he was blaming lyme disease.

It is all overreaction due to social media manipulation. For healthy people with strong/normal immune systems they will survive it like any other flu. Compared to the viruses and parasites we have had in the past, this does not even compare. More people die from other deadly viruses (Ebola, Zika, Dengue, Polio, Malaria(a parasite)) yet the world has not been panicking like this.

You mean, Nicole and friends?

Why hospitals still use pagers. https://www.thehealthy.com/healthcare/doctors/hospital-pagers/

I wonder if they use dogs. It would greatly speed up the search.

People need to be told common-sense nowadays.

The plan pricing itself is a robbery. I was in UK recently and I had 20GB of data for just 2,000yen.

I wonder what'll happen to my contributions when I get old and not living here in Japan.