Ike-in-Tokyo-from-89 comments

Sounds like her boss was trying to save her life.

Nice one, gogogo. “How dare you!”

There does seem to be a huge number of cases growing out of religious communities of all faiths.

Correction: There does seem to be a huge number of infected congregants among various faiths. Religious communities do not necessarily behave the same.

Religion is so unhelpful.

That’s a matter of opinion, not fact.

Re the article: “Who was that masked man?”

That said, I’d love to see Taiwan take a seat in the U.N. as the Republic of Taiwan.

However, the PRC would probably launch an attack after issuing their veto. But Taiwan will probably never declare such republic as it (the loser) and the PRC (the winner) both espouse the “One China Principle”

Who defines “hate speech”?

Even where the Edo meets the Tone there were loads of people out.

”Where the Edo *branches from* the Tone” would be more accurate ...

How many dictators step down after a crisis? (I’m leaving the legendary Roman dictator Cincinnatus out of this.)

If this virus has been circulating since the end of January if not earlier, why isn’t Tokyo in as bad shape as NYC? It’s population density is greater than NYC’s, it’s public transport system is as extensive and crowded as NYC’s and it has as many if not more visitors from China as NYC. I hope I live long enough to hear the definitive answer.

In january, the wise were already know the virus is dangerous, and prepared for it . In february, even the idiotsalso knowed that from the news around the world. Trump was worse than a idiot.

The wise? Like WHO? Like politicians such as Pelosi in the USA who considered use of the term “Wuhan Virus” to be racist in January. Give me a BREAK!

That's right, Cheeto-in-Chief. Blame anyone, ANYONE, except yourself.

After all, "I don't take responsibility at all."

Groundhog Day is long past. Go back into your hole in the ground.

This Social Distancing and Lockdowns will probably work. We should implement this every winter when infectious diseases peak to save lives.

Are you out of your mind? A population is safest when most people have been exposed to a pathogen and developed immunity.

However, nothing has prepared me for the economic malaise and the extreme speed of change in society.

The greatest danger is not the virus, but the impact on those, the vast majority and that’s a fact, who survive it.

A full lockdown is useless and creates more problems.

Indeed. Death is inevitable. Most of us try to delay it, but it’s still there. Live with it.

I hope that photo of Ginza isn’t supposed to prove anything. Many of the people there have usually been Chinese tourists.

eclipsing China's official count

I see that many posters here are swallowing the CCP’s official line. Just don’t wash it down with aquarium cleaner.

If everything is peachy in Wuhan now, then why are the local police preventing Wuhan residents from leaving? To forestall spread of the contagion or anti-government, anti-Chinese Communist Party feeling?

I don’t know if I actually AM safer, but I FEEL so. Why? There is a decided lack of media driven hysteria here.

@Tora

The virus is the result of our changing relationship with our habitat 

“Our”?

I think the use of this word needs to be examined and especially its applicability questioned in this time of pandemic.

As the American newsman/commentator Paul Harvey was fond of saying, “It’s not one world.” People are NOT the same wherever you go.

Can we send a camera crew and the CDC to confirm?

Not unless their safe exit is guaranteed first.

Republicans continue to obstruct instead of working with democrats to assist the American people. Smh.

No. A deal that Senate Minority Whip Chuck Schumer praised as bipartisan was scrapped on the arrival of Nancy Pelosi.

Please, cut out the propaganda.

“All Quiet on the Eastern Front”.

May my last meal be a bowl of rice topped with natto, onions, mustard, soy sauce and a raw egg!

Soon China will be calling this "Italian Respiratory Syndrome" or similar. and no one likes IRS.

”Italian Respiratory Syndrome”: a merger of Death and Taxes?

The “official“ numbers of infected people in Japan is an insult to everyone’s intelligence but no one seems to really care to be fooled...

Is your intelligence insulted by China’s figures as well?

Conveniently forgetting that left wingers were the first to be locked up and beaten on the streets, in Nazi Germany.

Yes. Fascists of the left and right saw themselves locked in a life or death struggle since 1917. The Fascist right got the upper hand in Germany in 1933; the Fascist left in Russia in 1917. Both liquidated their rivals when they got the chance. (PS Howard Zinn didn’t devote a chapter to this.)

THE Neil Young said that? Who gives a ...

Who was that unmasked man?

Sneezy: “We learned nothing: there are concentration camps on the border now.”

”Concentration camps”? Please define. The term is inflammatory as you well know. The association for the past 75 years has been with Nazi death camps. No, there are none of those on the border.

Nice try. No cigar.

If only sanctuary cities had been in place in 1941, eh, Governor Newsom?

“Lucky the US didn't pound the rest of Japan and only limited itself to pounding Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”

The rest of Japan WAS pounded and pretty hard, too.

There is a Chinese scholar by the name of Xu Zhangrun who wrote a very interesting response to this health crisis dated February 5, 2020. I urge all the look it up and read it. I read it in CHINAFILE.COM . He has since “disappeared”.

Just waiting to see how Bernie’ll get screwed this time.

“They said the baby’s mother faces a charge of corpse abandonment.”

‘corpse: a dead body, especially of a human rather than an animal’

Now maybe a human, at least in death.

@lulldapull

The way Trump is handling Iran,

The only thing Trump needs to do is photoshop and deephack the Ayatollah’s face and voice in “compromising” gay activities and he’ll be thrown off the roof of the tallest building in Tehran. Problem solved. Iranian people liberated.