Shit! Coronavirus may also be transmitted via infected feces

[Grumpy Gramps]

Nice to hear that you still get stuff from China. My latest order that I placed sometime in January (plumbing tools, so absolutely relevant to this thread) hasn't even left the warehouse in China yet.

[yanpa]

I made sure to order them the moment I heard about the outbreak.

Anyway, shit is really getting serious now - Chiba Rodentland is closing for two weeks.

[matsuki]

Something tells me giving kiddos a month off of school is not going to have the effect they are going for...Disneyland the next epicenter?

[yanpa]

You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus (The Atlantic)

[Russell]

Something tells me giving kiddos a month off of school is not going to have the effect they are going for...Disneyland the next epicenter?

Disneyland will close from 29 Feb to 15 March.

[yanpa]

Yeah, like wot I sed.

Meanwhile Brit stiff from sick ship

[matsuki]

Something tells me giving kiddos a month off of school is not going to have the effect they are going for...Disneyland the next epicenter?

Disneyland will close from 29 Feb to 15 March.

Both of em, USJ, trade shows, etc. markets be tanking....time to invest?

On the bright side, if someone infected goes to some sort of J-gov gathering...

[dimwit]

So like I heard like on the internet that if you put like about five bags of cat litter on your floor it will like protect you from like the coronavirus because you know cat litter absorbs all sorts of stuff like virus and things. All you need to do is buy about 20 bags of the stuff and it should like cover a single room. But it's like a secret so you better go to the supermarket or drug store and buy up all the cat litter before it is all sold out.

[Russell]

So like I heard like on the internet that if you put like about five bags of cat litter on your floor it will like protect you from like the coronavirus because you know cat litter absorbs all sorts of stuff like virus and things. All you need to do is buy about 20 bags of the stuff and it should like cover a single room. But it's like a secret so you better go to the supermarket or drug store and buy up all the cat litter before it is all sold out.

Sounds like crunch time.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Ouuuuuuuuuch, I actually need cat litter. For my cats, bemusingly. Have to run out and buy loads of it ad once, before it's all gone and the cats start to shit on the floor.

[yanpa]

The Japanese government have just held a press conference reassuring the population that adequate cat litter inventories exist and production is not dependent on Chinese raw materials.

[yanpa]

Meanwhile Brexit Britain, bless its delusional little cotton socks, has unleashed its global potential by exporting Coronavirus right back to China.

[matsuki]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-03/ ... a/12018688

Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

[Grumpy Gramps]

In Europe, they also don't want you to shake hands anymore. No talks about hugs and kisses so far, though.

[yanpa]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-03/coronavirus-covid-19-has-begun-spreading-within-australia/12018688

Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

The health minister in the Australian state of New South Wales, Brad Hazzard, has confirmed more cases in NSW, taking the number of cases there to 13.

These include a 39 year-old man who arrived from Iran, and a 53 year-old man who returned to Sydney from Singapore, a woman in her sixties who returned from South Korea, and a woman in her sixties just returned from Japan.

[Russell]

In Europe, they also don't want you to shake hands anymore. No talks about hugs and kisses so far, though.

Europe starting to bow. Export of Japanese culture.

[yanpa]

Ding ding ding - Japan has it's 1000th case (though arguably that's cheating because it includes the job lot from the Diamond Incubator).

[yanpa]

In Europe, they also don't want you to shake hands anymore. No talks about hugs and kisses so far, though.

Europe starting to bow. Export of Japanese culture.

Aussies panic-buying toilet paper

[dimwit]

So like I went to the drug store and supermarket and convenience store and like I couldn't find anymore cat litter but that is okay because like a saw this life hack on the internet and it said if you like duct tape your mouth and put earbuds in your nostrils it will protect you from the corona virus because the viruses don't like the vibration from the earbuds because it attacks them and stuff. This one is cool because like you can buy duct tape in a bunch of places.

[Taro Toporific]

So like I went to the drug store and supermarket and convenience store and like I couldn't find...

I NEEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE!

[matsuki]

And for are the local tomokorolios not using soap when they wash their hands...if they wash their hands....

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[yanpa]

Let's sing the "'Jealous Coronavirus' music video from Vietnamese Health Ministry"

[matsuki]

Here we go again...

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“Starting today, as a countermeasure to the coronavirus, [this restaurant] is Japanese only. I have a responsibility to protect my family, my staff and Sanji junkies. Please understand that this is not discrimination.”

https://kotaku.com/tokyo-ramen-restaura ... 1841805078

[Grumpy Gramps]

Waiting for Debito to alight from his grave.

[matsuki]

Waiting for Debito to alight from his grave.

Indeed....and as usual, there are plenty of uneducated peasants out to defend this type of shit. The whataboutism be like, "at least we don't get violent like white people."
Meanwhile others are pointing out that without foreigners, ramen wouldn't exist.

At this rate this dude might get his wish. for Tokyo 2020....

"Sorry!!

Japanese only

Sorry!!!"

(Either way, the shop is on blast in the eigosphere and more likely to get a brick than a furriner inside)

[Russell]

LOL

Coronavirus quarantine plans ignite row between South Korea and Japan

Seoul lashes neighbour’s ‘passive’ approach to containing the virus and implies Tokyo is more concerned with ensuring Olympics go ahead

The coronavirus outbreak has ignited a diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea, after Tokyo said it would quarantine all passengers arriving from the country, which has the highest number of Covid-19 cases outside China.

In response, the government in Seoul on Friday called the move “unreasonable, excessive and extremely regrettable”, threatening retaliatory measures and accusing Japan of not dealing with its own outbreak properly.

From Saturday, anyone arriving in Japan from South Korea will be placed in two weeks’ quarantine at government-designated sites, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, amid criticism of his handling of the outbreak just months before the country is due to host the Olympics.

“It is extremely regrettable Japan took this unreasonable and excessive step without sufficient prior consultation with us, and we strongly urge immediate reconsideration,” the South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement. Seoul said it would summon Japan’s ambassador to explain the measure, hinting that Tokyo had been motivated by politics rather than a desire to contain the spread of the respiratory illness.

“We can’t help but question whether Japan has other motives than containing the outbreak,” the statement said, without elaborating.

South Korea’s criticisms found an echo from the World Health Organisation, which said on Thursday night that some countries were not showing “the level of political commitment” needed to “match the level of the threat we all face”.

Although he didn’t name any culprits, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters: “This is not a drill. This epidemic is a threat for every country, rich and poor.”

Japan’s chief government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, defended the decision saying it was “the result of a comprehensive review of the information available about the situation in other countries and the effects of other measures. I think the timing is appropriate.”

The new measures also applied to visitors from China where new cases rose by 143 on Friday. Another 30 deaths were recorded.

[...]

Japan’s stock market is now at a six-month low and the economy faces a significant hit from the new travel restrictions. Big-spending Chinese visitors are a major plank of Shinzo Abe’s plan to revitalise the economy.

But Japan will also have to deal with the diplomatic fallout from South Korea. Seoul’s presidential office said the country was starting to see progress from its “transparent and active quarantine efforts” to contain the illness, contrasting it with Japan’s approach.

“While our country is sternly dealing with Covid-19 under its scientific and transparent quarantine system that is highly evaluated by the rest of the world, Japan is losing its faith from the international community because of its ambiguous and passive quarantine efforts,” the office said in a statement, according to Yonhap news agency.

South Korea’s national security council said it would consider countermeasures against Tokyo. Those could include designating Japan as a risk area for infectious diseases and placing its own restrictions on travellers from Japan. South Korea has not, though, imposed corresponding measures on more than 90 other countries that have banned or restricted visitors from the country.

Japan’s new quarantine requirement would create havoc for thousands of Koreans who had planned to visit Japan, said Park Chul-hyun, a media columnist based in Tokyo who cancelled a three-day trip to Seoul for fear of having to go into quarantine on his return.

“There are thousands of South Koreans arriving in Tokyo on a daily basis and I bet a majority of them have called off their trips,” Park told Agence France-Presse, dismissing the measure as a “pure performance” ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

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[matsuki]

Ignites a row? More like reignites the smoldering embers on the inextinguishable flame....

[Mike Oxlong]

The responses in terms of testing, treatment and quarantine between the two countries does indeed seem to confirm Coligny's observations of the contrasts of the two systems when he required medical services in South Korea.

[matsuki]

The responses in terms of testing, treatment and quarantine between the two countries does indeed seem to confirm Coligny's observations of the contrasts of the two systems when he required medical services in South Korea.

Care to link that post? I don't remember what he said.

Worst Korea seems to be taking an honest and transparent approach....Japan, is starting to seem more like China with a downplay without evidence and take no responsibility approach. Less testing doesn't mean less cases.

[Mike Oxlong]

Think it was this one. IIRC he chimes in a bit in other topics about the same experience here and there...
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