Last week, the weekly magazine Josei Seven published an interview by vaccine-skeptic journalist Touru Toridamari with four Japanese doctors about their experiences during the pandemic. The doctors contribute to the Twitter account/blog 勤務医団の本音 (kinmuidan no honne;
Covid restrictions at a medical university in Japan, September 13, 2022.
Update from a nursing school.
Today is my first day on campus in over 2 years. While I have been in our new building to film on demand lessons in the Spring of 2020, this is my fist time to use the cafeteria. It did not open early on in the panic.
Masks are, of course, required in the building. I am not wearing one and thus far only one person has said, whispered actually, that I am supposed to be wearing a mask. Due to covid, the nursing students are allowed to use the cafeteria at one time, medical students another. Faculty and staff any time except the times reserved for the students. I am not allowed to dine with my coworkers, nor they with anyone else. Mokushoku, or eating in silence, is the order of the times. The tables are divided into four dinning areas, with one of these on each side closed. So each table of four dinning spaces actually has only two, situated diagonally from each other open for use. The partitions are wooden panels instead of the plexiglass used in most restaurants in Japan.
Not all the students are adhering to the Mokushoku rule nor the social distancing rules and sit in all four corners of the tables; but many are. I am the sole unmasked person in the building. Most of those eating are actually masking between bites and sips.
I am glad they mention that nurses have a hard time refusing. How about medical and nursing students? My last remaining med school is having their students get the 4th shot. My boss at the nursing school there told me that all full time staff and faculty must get the 4th shot. Madness.
Covid restrictions at a medical university in Japan, September 13, 2022.
Update from a nursing school.
Today is my first day on campus in over 2 years. While I have been in our new building to film on demand lessons in the Spring of 2020, this is my fist time to use the cafeteria. It did not open early on in the panic.
Masks are, of course, required in the building. I am not wearing one and thus far only one person has said, whispered actually, that I am supposed to be wearing a mask. Due to covid, the nursing students are allowed to use the cafeteria at one time, medical students another. Faculty and staff any time except the times reserved for the students. I am not allowed to dine with my coworkers, nor they with anyone else. Mokushoku, or eating in silence, is the order of the times. The tables are divided into four dinning areas, with one of these on each side closed. So each table of four dinning spaces actually has only two, situated diagonally from each other open for use. The partitions are wooden panels instead of the plexiglass used in most restaurants in Japan.
Not all the students are adhering to the Mokushoku rule nor the social distancing rules and sit in all four corners of the tables; but many are. I am the sole unmasked person in the building. Most of those eating are actually masking between bites and sips.
I will never trust medical “professionals’ again.
I am glad they mention that nurses have a hard time refusing. How about medical and nursing students? My last remaining med school is having their students get the 4th shot. My boss at the nursing school there told me that all full time staff and faculty must get the 4th shot. Madness.