Recent content by disruptivedolphin

I disagree with your statement.

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My only point will be that most people who speak of 'the Japanese' generally don't have a clue about Japan, no matter how many times they've been there. Even many of 'the British' (such as myself) would take offence at such a phrase, and throwing some general characterisation at 'the...

What's the source for this?

Some idea of the geographic spread (Okinawa at the top left is of course actually down to the south):

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-03/coronavirus-will-the-diamond-princess-sink-japans-olympics-dream/12015202 Some experts, like Dr Masahiro Kami, believe the government does not want to know the full extent of the spread in the country. "The Japanese Government wants to go ahead with the...

Last time I had that I couldn't sit down for a week.

Noting also that two months isn't long enough to know how things might play out later.

You do realise it's not actually replacing any other flu, just adding to the range of flus, and thereby adding to the strain on medical resources? And that we're still only two months in, and that pretty much all the experts acknowledge that there is still much that needs to be known?

All crew and the captain have now left the Diamond Princess. Otsukaresamadeshita

Spring Sumo tournament to go ahead without spectators.

The guy who tested positive in Shizuoka after leaving the Diamond Princess on February 20 went to his sports club (gym) the same day and on February 22 to use the bathing facilities. 140 people are now being chased up as a result.

I think that's a very important point to bear in mind at present. The mood here is quite frankly terrible. It reminds me not so much of after the March 2011 earthquake as of 1Q 1995, when the Hanshin earthquake hit in January and then Tokyo was thrown into chaotic panic by the sarin subway...

The Tohoku region now has its first confirmed positive, a Sendai resident once again courtesy of the Diamond Princess. So I think that's now three prefectures that got their first cases from people let (prematurely) off the cruise ship. And as has been (more) widely reported (than for the...

Ah, no.