Kag comments

To be honest if Japan does aggressive testing and contact tracing with really strict measures of gatherings and F&B controls they still have a very high chance of containing.

I think they are lucky that many companies and taking actions on their own despite expecting profit loss.

Despite most measures being only "recommended" I see many business owners are already taking some measures early even thou they aren't being forced to.

Whereas in some countries businesses would operate without measures unless a legal actions is implemented.

The survey can be improved, symptoms like loss of smell/taste, diarrhea, shortness of breath should have been included.

Not sure if it made any difference but loss of smell is now considered a symptom to warrant a test. A group of asymptomatic patients reported loss of smell before having any coughs or fevers.

I hope that culture was really the difference.

Lots of people smoke here and so I don't think the general population risk is low.

The lack of any fear in Japan baffles me.

In terms of economy, given that visitors will be an all time low, pushing it another year will be better to boost the economy.

No wonder Olympics take 4 years to plan per cycle, it is filled with people without foresight.

Glad that the country leaders are finally able to make the call to protect their people.

Hope athletes around the world start a viral #boycottOlympics2020

The competition would be ideal if atheletes can't train due to lockdowns.

I think countries should start declaring their non attendance to this Olympics otherwise IOC won't care.

The Olympics is nothing without athletes and they need to be reminded of that.

UK needs to be proactive on tests, getting people to self report is a really poor way of keeping track of the spread.

It is probably better for the economy to postpone it. Continuing it without spectators benefits no economy.

@lesenfant In China they thought of that

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-changing-food-consumption-in-china-2020-2?op=1

With each Meituan contactless delivery order, customers receive physical cards stating the temperatures of all people involved in the cooking and delivery process, as well as whether the couriers have disinfected their equipment that day.

Err, i thought the virus won't be present in blood?

Did they manage to make an antibody test and selling it without the whole world knowing?

If the test is managed well and handled by health professionals then why not.

He just needs to make sure that there's still a proper diagnosis done and not just some test and go kind of situation.

I think lots of people don't get is that announcing it will greatly affect the Japan's stock exchange.

People in the back of their minds know that cancellation or postponement will be inevitable but any delays to the announcement will even the shock to the market.

However i don't know their reason to keep appearing on press to say the same things, just post a press statement if there's nothing to update.

Maybe the strain they have here is the weaker one, hopefully that's the case.

Given that Japan isn't taking a proactive measure I would assume this is just going to get worse.

Japanese Yen is technically more stable as the ecosystem is still fairly domestic, most US sectors still have a huge reliance on China for supply and manufacturing.

However it is not always a good thing as Japanese exports are a lot more expensive due to this and if inflation occurs due to this then domestic consumption and exports will suffer badly.

It isn't just toilet paper running out, i think media partially has to be blamed as toilet paper running out makes a good clickbait news headlines.

I'm going to guess that part of the reason is also because toilet paper takes up so much shelf space such that just a few being gone makes it seem like it is running out very fast.

The best response would be to provide him a mask rather than shouting at his face, if you get uncomfortable just move seats.

However i would advise someone whose coughing without masks to probably avoid seating during this extreme periods as it inconveniences others since they need to change seats because of you.

I thought Japan being a high bidet use country would use less toilet paper.

Guess I was wrong.

I'm just going to use water and soap if mine runs out, not going to die from it.

At least LINE itself wasn't hacked. Phishing occurs at a regular basis across all platforms.

Definitely necessary, events are difficult to contact trace as shown in the singapore Hyatt cluster.

@kohakuebisu there's something called air mask in the market if you believe that it works.

Everyone living in Japan, good luck.

It is an outbreak waiting to happen, i doubt any of the Japanese on board will self quarantine.

Somehow only Japan thinks that ship quarantine is successful.

Good luck everyone, be prepared for widespread COVID in Japan.

Good luck people.

Basically Japan is letting a ship load of failed cruise quarantine out on the streets.

Not going to advise people to see the doctor?

Retailers will just leave eventually due to this.

I think hotels only need to take precautions such as providing protective equipment for their staff, increasing cleaning on common surfaces and maybe even changing the buffet style breakfast to an order based etc.

Pushing unnecessary information will cause fear.

If the old workers are still unwilling to retire this problem will continue.

I think Japan need to rethink this, at first it might be a good idea due to the amount of people and likely lacking in quarantine facilities.

But I'm starting to think that there's cross infection occuring.