Tokyo reports most daily Covid-19 cases in six months as Olympics loom:
TOKYO (REUTERS) - Tokyo reported the highest number of new Covid-19 cases in almost six months on Wednesday (July 14), with the Olympics due to open in the capital in just nine days.
The city government said there were 1,149 new cases, the highest daily tally since Jan 22, adding to evidence that a new fifth wave of infections is under way, driven by more infectious virus variants and a low vaccination rate.
Amid rising cases, the government declared renewed state of emergency for Tokyo and surrounding prefectures last week and Olympics organisers announced that no fans would be allowed at events in those areas.
[...] Health experts had warned that seasonal factors, increased mobility, and the spread of variants would lead to a rebound this summer. Kyoto University professor Yuki Furuse earlier projected that new daily cases in Tokyo could rise to 1,000 in July and 2,000 in August, potentially maxing out hospital beds in the capital region.
[...] Just 31 per cent of people in Japan have received at least one Covid-19 inoculation dose, among the lowest rate among wealthy countries, according to a Reuters tracker.
[...] A coronavirus cluster at a Japanese hotel where dozens of Brazilian Olympic team members are staying has raised new concern about infections at what the world's top Olympics official promised on Wednesday would be "historic" Games.
Current statistics from Johns Hopkins and Worldometers.com for Japan.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 16 2021, @09:51PM (10 children)
But, I think the Olympics should have been called off this year. The risks are just too high, IMO. It's not like failing to observe the Olympics is likely to lead to WW3, or WW16, or anything really bad. I understand, a lot of people have worked hard to qualify. I feel bad for them. But, reality is, there's still a pandemic going on. Tens of thousands of people flying into town for something that almost qualifies as frivolous just doesn't make a lot of sense.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @09:58PM (1 child)
It's the only gainful employment a lot of African Americans can get. Cancel the games and they'll have to go on welfare.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:27PM
That would be a problem. It's a zero sum game. There's only so many welfare dollars to go around and the farmers are hogging most of it these days.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:02PM (5 children)
The only reason they are running the olympics is to distract people from trying to free Britney.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:10PM (4 children)
WTF is Britney? Should I google it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:37PM
It's called Brexit. Apparently quite a big thing in Europe, they must love her.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday July 17 2021, @05:54AM (2 children)
"WTF" , where the "W" is "Who" .
Try adding the surname "Spears" , hit your brain cells one more time, then cast your mind back to the 90s. Now you're ready to Google if you want to know why she's in the news now.
(Score: 2) by The Vocal Minority on Sunday July 18 2021, @11:19AM (1 child)
-1 Normie Trash
(Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Monday July 19 2021, @01:23PM
Normie? No, he, he lives down the road.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:24PM (1 child)
Safe and secure [washingtonpost.com] and free from liability (for the IOC, that is). How can you talk that way? Won't anyone think of the poor IOC board members? They probably can't cash those sweet sweet checks from NBC/Universal unless they are broadcasting SOMETHING!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:14PM
They should just show the women's volleyball, women's gymnastics and men's diving (gotta have something for the laidyies).
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Snotnose on Friday July 16 2021, @10:20PM (35 children)
Who is getting sick, the vaxed or the un-vaxed? If the unvaxed then I say go for it.
Ya know, there are 2 ways to get to a 70% vaccination level. You can get folks to get the vaccination. Or you can kill off the folks who refuse to get vaccinated.
Whoops, there I go again not being PC. I guess nowdays it's called Woke, but whatevs. IMHO, let the stupid thin the herd. Maybe my rent will come down.
Whatever, let the idiots watch their friends die off and see what happens.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Friday July 16 2021, @10:28PM (19 children)
Actually it's called 'ignorant' cos you're unaware of the third group of people... those who cannot get vaccinated. Kids, for example. Oh and we wanna shove'em into a close-quarters virus incubator in a few weeks. Yep those poor "idiots"...
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Friday July 16 2021, @11:25PM (13 children)
Ah yes, all those children under 12 who are in less danger from Big Rona than dying from a knee scrape, are being dragged on the 17 hour flight to Tokyo for the Olympics. Won't someone think of those five children and cancel the games!!
(Score: 5, Informative) by Tork on Friday July 16 2021, @11:45PM (10 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @11:59PM
In other fantasies, Chtulhu can wake in R'lyeh and gobble us all up.
Wake up and update the script, it is 2021 already, not 2020 still.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by fakefuck39 on Saturday July 17 2021, @12:04AM (8 children)
The millions of non-dying kids going to the Olympics and fill up the hospitals in Japan? Because that's what we're talking about here, and what the comment you replied to is talking about here. Here, let me give you a simpler example, because you are extremely dense.
SnitPose: Driving racecars around the track is dangerous, but the people driving them are accepting the risk when they go to the track to race.
You: Nuh-huh, have you seen the statistics of how many people get run over on the streets of NYC!!
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday July 17 2021, @12:09AM (7 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Saturday July 17 2021, @01:43AM (6 children)
Ah, I see you just can't read then. OP: "I say go for it"
what do you thing that quoted part refers to. go for what? go for buying a pizza? see, to anyone not being purposely dense and trying to make a strawman, we're talking about going to the olympics here. in this whole comments section, spawned by this article that talks about going to the olympics.
but yeah, I get how your brain just wants to call someone stupid, so you make up shit they never said and call it stupid. i get it. an autistic brain makes itself feel comfortable and in control by painting a new reality for you. looking in from the outside though, you're simply the clown.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday July 17 2021, @02:36AM (4 children)
Hmmm... let's take a look.
Ok.
Riiiight.
Oh... there's more.
Hmm ok, let's look again.
heh! 💩.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Saturday July 17 2021, @02:50AM (3 children)
your eyes see the thing in quotes, your eyes read when i again point out you missed the thing in quotes. your eyes see where I say "here's a similar example for you." your brain deletes all of that, and tells you I said "the op was talking about cars."
the same exact slice and dice your defective brain did with the op, it did with my post. this is the autism - same issue, recurring and repeating in everything you do. but i do love to watch you keep being autistic. it's fun to laugh at the handicapped and defective.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:01AM (2 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Saturday July 17 2021, @04:41AM (1 child)
Yes yes, your brain makes a world where you're easily amazed, the post about the olympics in the thread about the olympics isn't correct, and you're lost in this wonderful world of yours. I'm sure a lot of things wow you and bedazzle you. It's a way your defectively formed brain entertains you, I'm sure the pills you need to function help. And just like your mommy told you back when you were picked on in school, the people around laughing at you and calling you a social reject retard are projecting. Another coping mechanism the duct-taped bubblegum in your head makes.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Tork on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:19PM
Heh. Have a good weekend, man.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:46AM
The dickhead goes lunatic on the hill top for maximum exposure. He liked playing the stupid for so long he's now stuck in this state forever.
Next!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @12:36AM (1 child)
Yes. Children are much less likely to suffer severe illness, but some do, and some die. Over 2 million children have had covid, and hundreds have died.
It isn't about statistical averages, when it is your own child. Most parents are going to want to minimize unnecessary risk. And, not postponing the Olympics until after the pandemic has passed, especially when it is being held in a country which hasn't made as much progress on vaccinations as most wealthy nations, is unnecessary risk.
Here is a family who lost their baby girl to covid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-children-deaths/ [washingtonpost.com]
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday July 17 2021, @01:57AM
>Over 2 million children have had covid, and hundreds have died.
oh noes, hundreds of children out of millions of children! hey sherlock, the same percentage of kids die from the flu as from covid.
.01% of children who get covid die. Since covid started, there have been 300 child deaths
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/04/19/pediatric-covid-cases-041921 [aappublications.org]
166 died from the flu, in a year
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2020/04/10/fluupdate041020 [aappublications.org]
lets keep in mind that a huge chunk of those deaths are not just children - it's babies.
So, since we're talking about flying to attend the olympics, how many children under 12 (can't get the vaccine), and how many babies, do you expect on that 17 hour flight to tokyo to attend the olympics?
>a country which hasn't made as much progress on vaccinations
right. when it's not super urgent or super dangerous, it's a low priority. why is it not urgent or dangerous in Japan? oh, because they were wearing masks religiously even before covid started, have always been super-clean, and they continue to do so.
>It isn't about statistical averages
no, it's about the subset of the population that flies a full day to go to the olympics, which does not include the group you're speaking of. but you're purposely ignoring that just to tell the OP he's wrong. in reality, you're just looking like a retard who can't read.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday July 16 2021, @11:42PM (4 children)
Or the ones whose vaccinations are not going to take. I know more than one person on immunosuppressant drugs. Their best protection would be having vaccinated people surround them.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @12:03AM (1 child)
Who, exactly, told you the vaccinated do not spread the virus?
The originators of those promises have changed their tune already in sight of planetwide counterproof, go update your preaching.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday July 17 2021, @02:57AM
that would be basic common sense - same as with masks. why do masks work? because put an open hand an inch in front of your face and sneeze - you get a bunch of wet shit on your hand, and very little everywhere else. congratulations, you've just reduced the amount of disease you've spat out by 100 times, so it's going to infect less people, because there's less of it that you've spread. with a vaccine, any vaccine, you get the virus inside your body, and it can't grow - your body kills it faster than it replicates. this is how vaccines work.
yes, with a vaccine you'll get a couple of thousand viral bodies out there. except you need a million spread around to actually infect someone. so no, the vaccinated do not spread the virus, and no, no one has changed their tune. well, except for your the fake bullshit feeding your misquoted and out of context information, and plain old making shit up. they used to say covid was a china bioweapon, then said it is a hoax, then claimed trump invented the german vaccine, now they're telling you to fuck your dead father. TRUMP tells you to fuck your father. DO IT.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:19PM
> Their best protection...
We need to let the sick and infirm die. They cost a lot in taxes and let's keep it real, a lot of them don't *do* anything. First they can live on the streets, then they can die.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @10:05PM
As you were so previously fond of mentioning, the vast majority of the Israeli adult population has now been vaccinated. Herd immunity unlocked! So, by your own logic it must now be a great place for an immunosuppressed guy to be, yeah?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:40PM (6 children)
Unfortunately they don't die. They get long COVID and suck on the teat for the rest of their lives, moaning about government this and that and waving loaded weapons around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @11:21PM (1 child)
Who's giving loaded guns to kids? Bad idea.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday July 16 2021, @11:39PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @11:39PM (3 children)
》 They get long COVID
Doesn't exist... it's a made-up disease like Running Leg Syndrome or Lyme disease. The way you can tell is that none of these are present in China or Africa where people aren't trained to get paid by the government for sitting around watching TV while cashing disability checks.
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday July 16 2021, @11:51PM (1 child)
It would have been very easy to have found the articles about long COVID in China.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210111/six-months-later-most-wuhan-covid-survivors-still-have-health-issues#1 [webmd.com]
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32656-8/fulltext [thelancet.com]
Africa too.
https://mg.co.za/africa/2021-02-28-living-with-long-covid-in-lagos/ [mg.co.za]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @12:25AM
Fake news from your pharma friends trying to drum up business for booster shots. For once Dr Fauci got it right and told them to fuck off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @12:05AM
I also read that Kim Jong Un hits 18 holes-in-one every time he plays golf.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @11:24PM (1 child)
A few cases of vaccinated athletes are reported to be infected in Tokyo.
Remember, vaccine is not a guarantee to prevent infection.
Also, IOC requires all participating athletes to sign a form releasing IOC and Tokyo of all liabilities related to COVID19.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:25PM
The life of "the talent" looks miserable. There's 100 grifters looking to make a buck off you, and 100 rules to make you "The Best You Can Be(tm)", and on top of that you actually have to be, ya know, good at it. Reminds me of my job actually... total management-fest.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @01:12AM
Whoops you did it again! #FreeBritney
(Score: 2) by edinlinux on Saturday July 17 2021, @02:14AM (2 children)
There are still massive shortages of vaccine in Japan.
They are about where the US was around January of this year with availability and rationing.
Lots of people of all ages there want to get vaccinated but can't and the waiting lists are a mile long (or weeks / months long in this case).
So its not the case of anti-vaxxers choosing to go without like it is in the US.
The olympics really should have been postponed to 2022 (but that would have angered Beijing, which has the 2022 winter games and also annoyed TV sponsors)..
More corruption as usual..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @02:34AM (1 child)
The Japanese government, the ruling political class and institutions still live in their 80s glory, with fax machines, personal stamp, and everything.
It's not a lost decade. The way they are going, it looks like a lost century.
This is what happens if you can't face the fact and learn from the history.
The US should learn from this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:27PM
They still make the best futanari though. Delicious.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @12:52PM (1 child)
I'm not taking the shot. I see letting me die on my own terms in peace as an absolute right I should have. Nobody needs to keep me "safe" - I can fend for myself.
The way the government suddenly "cares" about every individual should really cause you to question their motives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @01:25AM
That's fine. Just keep away from everyone else so that you don't spread the virus. Oh, and don't take up a hospital bed either, please.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:24PM (2 children)
What I would like to know is
Who are all these asymptomatic IDIOTS getting tested?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday July 16 2021, @11:39PM
Test everybody, and you catch the ones who are potentially contagious but don't have symptoms yet.
SARS COV 2's superpower is spreading without symptoms. SARS Classic was controlled by isolating visibly sick people. That won't work with this one.
Here's how mass testing has worked in real life:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-south-korea-got-right/ [nationalreview.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @02:27AM
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asymptomatic [merriam-webster.com]
*shakes head in shame*
What has SN come to?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @11:28PM (1 child)
Where my biggy fries, my biggy fries from mickeyd's?
Just keep it real, dawg, it's aight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @03:29PM
Coming right up, Mr. President sir.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @01:04PM
am i the only one that thinks these "case numbers" are fishy IF the total number of test is noot also given?
i mean, like "today we found 5 covid cases (and tested 15 people)" -vs- "today we found alot of covid, like 3000 (and we tested 30'000 people)"
eeeeehhhh?