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The entire point of a tablet is to be able to do multiple things on it. Why are they designating different tablets for different tasks?

A multifunctional tablet is very dangerous during driving. Probably less dangerous on a rail, but simulating a dedicated fixed screen that needs minimum attention to operate is still safer.

But password-locking this screen will kill all the advantages

The woke cult is infinitely worse but is escaping all scrutiny

PCBs cause cancer

That's why they should be incinerated or otherwise decomposed at a waste treatment facility.

Potesting against PCB destruction is the worst idea someone could possibly have

Japanese are probably more prone to brain washing in the 21st century compared to other developed countries

Japanese are absolutely the least susceptible to brainwashing in the 21st century compared to other developed countries. Look at e.g. the massive momentum of the toxic woke cult elsewhere

Don't they have money for room air ventilation or filtration?

6 air exchanges/hour eliminated 82.5% of infections in an Italian study, I doubt that masks can achieve 1/10 of that

no homes, no infrastructure

It's a massive country, most of it is untouched. But hometown might be in ruins indeed

you haven’t wondered why their are not using hypersonic weapons, S-550 defense systems, satellite destruction technology, hydrogen nuclear tactical weapons, intense cyber attacks, nuclear armed subs, underwater and airborne drones, biological and chemical weapons, lasers and sonic weapons?

They do use some drones. But I think everyone is wondering why they're not using serious technical capabilities

Label it as "opportunity" and take back Kuril islands. Much of Russian military is tied up in Ukraine:)

There's urban legends of Putin having terminal illness and being more willing to make desperate moves than "normal". But these tales have been around for a while, reducing credibility

Not sure why, but I believe that the use of coronavirus-sniffing dogs has been scrapped everywhere.

In Finland it was due to bureaucratic reasons.

Inert dumb bureaucracy is one key reason why this pandemic has lasted beyond 2021

Downplaying and ridiculing the dangers of Covid that has developed into pneumonia

The article has been edited. Most comments are to the original version that only mentioned testing positive

The present vaccines DO REDUCE the numbers getting infected and reduce the active viral load

This was true for pre-delta strains. Delta erased most of the effect, and omicron erased all of it (unless you have a very FRESH booster)

The inconsistency is what gets me. You have close contact with a new case at home and it's 7 days isolation for you. You have close contact with someone at work and it's business as usual. What is the actual point?

The exhaled viral aerosol behaves like a gas. Homes have the lowest air exhange and a small airspace, and exposure is usually the longest. Unless you have a HEPA air purifier at home, transmission is most likely at home

this is the same japan that wasnts to release radioactive water into the ocean

The contamination level in the "radioactive water" is heavily below drinking water regulations. It would probably be legal to dump in California where otherwise everything causes cancer.

Also, comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima makes absolutely no sense on very many levels

I wasn't aware that India was also holding an Olympics this year. Oh, they're not? Then, maybe that's why it wasn't mentioned in an article about air quality at the Olympics.

Air pollution in India was relevant when they had the delta strain boom. Apparently polluted air increases respiratory aerosol exhalation at least 10 times

It also more easily infects those who have been vaccinated or had previously been infected by prior versions of the virus.

2x vaccinated currently have slightly more omicron infections per 100000 than unvaccinated, 3x vaccinated have clearly fewer omicron infections per 100000 than unvaccinated.

Infection risk of previously infected folks lies between those of 2x and 3x vaccinated, but clearly fewer than unvaccinated.

The difference between all the above immune groups is very much smaller than with previous strains. Omicron is the great equalizer

Great idea. Didn't work all of the other times, but maybe this time it will. Let's beat a dead horse.

Still better than instituting draconian but completely ineffective medieval measures that actually increase infections, and shooting those who protest against them, like Netherlands did.

That only demonstrate a deep ignorance about the kind of particles the masks need to stop to be useful.

You only demonstrate a deep ignorance about VOCs being as easy to catch as aerosols.

Do you also believe condoms to be worthless because the virus is smaller than the latex pores?

Completely irrelevant.

A VOC-absorbing mask is also "valuable and valid" against toilet stench. It's just very stupid and impractical, outside of some special circumstances.

Just as it's very stupid, impractical, ineffective and expensive to stick to personal protective gear as a state-level/global aerosol control measure for years. But it is just one aspect of how this is a pandemic of problem management stupidity and the virus itself is pretty irrelevant

Experimental and epidemiological data clearly points out it work, so there is nothing silly about it

If masks actually were a practical, effective and non-silly long-term measure, then they should also be the main method against toilet smells, instead of ventilation

The effect of a coating on the spread of an airborne virus is at least as good as the effect of a lucky charm.

The cost of this pseudoscientific coating, 10000 yen, is equal to the price of a very effective measure against an airborne virus - a HEPA air purifier.

I bet most company managers will prefer the coating, as pseudoscience is very cool

Depends on whether you can afford a 15000 yen HEPA air purifier for home and workplace.

Relying on low-quality personal protective gear for aerosol control for years on end is quite silly. But entire nations do it. In Japan it even seems to work somewhat

students, drunk out of their minds, sitting on the ground outside office buildings

Any indoor drinking spaces should still use HEPA air filtration. Even if symptomatically mild, a steep wave of infections may get difficult to handle

students, drunk out of their minds, sitting on the ground outside office buildings

So even drunk, Japanese youngsters minimise airborne infection risks by spending a lot of time in open air. This might explain some of the Japan's relative immunity to various coronavirus strains

massive virus loads and then give it back to human being visitors later again

It is possible that omicron being mild is because it spent some time in an animal host. A mouse has been suggested. A lab mouse, say conspiracy theories

This is an aerosol virus (like other human coronaviruses). Restricting open air events will increase infections

The reason why this virus is not going away is because idiots do not learn.

That it's an airborne virus. Any air filtration or air exchange will suck it out of indoor air, but hand sanitation does exactly nothing to it. Hand sanitation is still good for some other infections.

I think Shinkansen has airplane-quality air exchange/filtration though?

Alcohol does actually increase loud-voiced blabbing aka aerosol production, so alcohol and late-night restrictions are primitive but do have an effect.

Requiring HEPA air purifiers would be a 20th century response, but 21st century is "back to Middle Ages" era.

I wish Japan immediately reported the PCR S-gene-negative aka omicron results with the total results like UK does.

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nCov is transmitted by stable aerosol, not droplets that fall to the ground rapidly.

But talking produces both.