The main reason I started writing this blog was to counter fawning western MSM articles about Japan’s supposed success responding to Covid by pointing out Japan is actually a case study in pandemic response failure: Japan would’ve been much better off not responding at all.
Absolutely mental. And I say this as a Canadian, where the unvaxxed until very recently weren't allowed to board planes or trains. Then again, it's not over yet so I mustn't jinx myself.
Yeah, the Japanese government is more constrained in what it can do. But it knows the population well even to know which buttons to push to get most them to take needless jabs.
This is why Abe Shinzo had to go. His intent included no biological experiments (vaxxes) and early treatment with ivermectin both thrown out the window by the current crooks.
Thank you for these reports. Do you, or anyone else here who's in Japan, remember when the nearly universal masking in Japan started? And, was it prompted by government authorities, or did people start doing it on their own, in response to the covid news they saw?
I'd say April 2020 was when universal 24/7 masking became common nationwide, prompted by the first state of emergency. Plenty of people were still unmasked in March, including Abe & Co.
Where do these idiots in the West get the idea that Japan is handling this well? Glad you are doing what you are doing to counter their ignorance. Thanks, Guy Gin,
Thanks. The western MSM has spent 2.5 years writing articles saying “Look how few deaths Japan has had. It must be the masks.” I figured nobody else was going to write about what a depressing clown show Japan has become, so I decided to do it myself.
The China-lite anti-Covid rules you shared seem to be standard for people working in medical facilities. Thankfully, my company has never tried to micro-manage the private lives of its employees.
Any anger you perceive in any of my responses is NOT directed at you. Got to get that out of the way first, as I have been burning with rage over all this for over 2 1/2 years.
Yes, I know those clowns in the western MSM have writing all kinds of BS about Japan for years, and have continued with gusto over covid. I can not tell you how many times I have responded to claims that Ivermectin is commonly prescribed for covid here. Don’t get me started on masks. I have been trying to get my med students to understand that they can not stop viruses for almost twenty years prior to covid. I am certified in the use or respirators and know a thing or two about them.
On the China-lite (Funny, I call the “Emergency Declarations”, “Lockdown Lite TM”) rules, the medical community should know better. In fact. I believe they do as one of my coworkers is an infectious disease control professional. He said that he and all in his field know that all we have been told to do is pointless but it is political. It being political, somehow has everyone afraid to speak out. Frustration does not cover it.
Sadly, many companies have done similar. The leader of our Obayashi (festival music) group works for a publisher. His company’s restrictions are similar to what I posted from the medical school. So are those of several other members who are regular kaishain. Oh, and the medical students are also to follow these. What kind of doctors and nurses are they going to turn out to be? Ah, which reminds me, we are also supposed to take our temperature daily and recorded it. Masks are required for online courses too. I got special permission to not wear one when I told that I would not wear a mask, period. I wonder why I am all but unemployed now... ah, what a mysterious world we live in.
Turning patients away is not new. The Japanese even have a term for it, “Taraimawashi”.
My first exposure to this practice was in the early 90s when a friends wife lost their baby as she spent all night in the back of an ambulance on labor inhibiting drugs being refused by hospital after hospital.
Hospitals in Tokyo have also turned away flu patients in the past when we have had high numbers of them, despite masking to prevent its spread.
None of these measure are new. Below is a redacted, machine translation of the rules for dealing with covid at one of my now former medical schools in Japan. It is from that latter part of 2020 or early 2021, updated later .Before I get to that, many companies have similar restrictions. Our local matsuri was cancelled again last year despite its date falling between “Emergency Declarations”. Too many members of our matsuri group worked for companies that forbade them from attending group activities, our monthly meetings included. However, those that we have had these past three Springs and Summers are indoors, away from prying eyes.
My son’s elementary school has practiced “Mokushoku” (eating in silence) since they went back to school in the summer of 2020.
The rules I was to follow.
Head of Hospital, ID REMOVED
Chairman of The Committee on Measures against Infection Prevention
Ver. 20210526
New Lifestyle Standards for Faculty and Staff,
XXXXXXXXX Hospital, MMMMMMMMM School of Medicine
(At-work)
1. Wearing a mask (nonwoven fabric) (prevention of droplet infection)
( A ) Faculty and staff are required to wear masks in indoor common places such as on-site classrooms, corridors, toilets, and hospitals. Always wear a mask other than when eating, drinking, blowing your nose, brushing your teeth, or smoking. Cover both the mouth and nose.
Grounds: Medical school students are required to wear masks when they enter the main building (at the student's own expense). Patients are asked to wear masks in the hospital (patients are preparing themselves).
( B ) Do not touch the surface of the mask. If it is to be touched, hand hygiene must be performed before and after.
( C ) Use a different mask for commuting and another for work.
2. Prevention of contact infection
( A ) Avoid contact with others other than medical care and medical examinations.
( B ) Do not touch your eyes or mouth with your hands. When touching cannot be avoided, carry out proper hand hygiene is made.
3. About hand hygiene
( A ) Hand hygiene is carried out with alcohol, such as quick-drying hand sanitizers in principle (wash hands with soap when there are reactions to alcohol or when dirt is visible). When treating patients in the hospital, carry hand sanitizer with you at all times.
( B ) WHO guidelines for hand hygiene timing (1) before touching the patient (2) before clean / sterile work (3) when there is a possibility of exposure to body fluids (4) after touching the patient (5) after touching any items around the patient.
Hand hygiene should also be carried out before breaks, before and after meals, before and after using the toilet, when entering the hospital from the medical office and when entering the hospital, before and after touching common objects (keyboard, mouse, touch panel, etc.).
4. About meals
( A ) Meals are to be consumed alone. Do not eat or drink in groups of two or more people (defined here as 会食).
( B ) Do not have conversations during meals.
( C ) Ensure at least 1 m of distance between people and try to avoid sitting face to face as much as possible.
( D ) Do not get or give people meals.
( E ) Don't use tableware.
( F ) Hydration is carried out in the staff room, etc., and not in the patient areas such as the corridors.
5. About meetings
( A ) Encourage web conferencing.
( B ) When holding a meeting, keep the distance between people.
( C ) Improve ventilation and provide sufficient ventilation.
( D ) The meeting should be held in a short time.
6. About the break
( A ) During breaks, the room should be ventilated (about once every 30 minutes). ( B ) Conversations should not be carried out without being masked.
( C ) Do not have long conversations.
( D ) Perform hand hygiene before taking a break.
( E ) Select an individual responsible for implementing staff room rules to ensure they are carried out before and after use.
7. Conversations on the university and in the hospital
( A ) Do not talk in narrow passages or corridors.
( B ) Do not have loud conversations.
( C ) Don't talk while walking.
8. About conferences
( A ) Do not keep the station dense.
( B ) Improve colds and provide sufficient ventilation.
( C ) The implementation time is short.
New Lifestyle Standards for Faculty and Staff, XXXXXXXXX Hospital, XXXXXXXXXX School of Medicine
(Daily Life)
1. About physical condition management
( A ) When there is poor physical condition such as fever, cold symptom, taste disorder, etc., do not commute, and confirm the correspondence to the affiliation. If the cause of fever is unknown, you will be staying at home until 4 days after fever according to the rules of the University .
( B ) The temperature is performed before going to work, and it records it.
( C ) If there are symptoms such as fever, cold symptom, taste disorder, etc. in the family, and PCR test needs to be carried out and the member must wait for the result and the correspondence is confirmed before the faculty/staff member can return to work.
2. Commuting and transportation use
( A ) When using public transportation, wear a mask and ensure proper social distancing protocols.
( B ) Refrain from conversations on public transportation such as buses and trains as much as possible.
( C ) Overseas travel must comply with University regulations.
3. About meals
( A ) Do not eat or drink (defined here as a 会食) in groups of two or more people other than with your family members.
( B ) Do not have conversations while eating out.
( C ) Do not talk as much as possible when eating at home.
4. Lifestyle
( A ) Avoid snuggling. Maintain social distance.
( B ) Don't have long conversations with others. (wear a mask)
( C ) Hand hygiene should be performed before and after meals, before work, and after returning home after touching items touched by others.
( D ) Wear a mask in the family depending on the situation.
( E ) Avoid situations where more than one person exercises indoors.
5. Ceremonial occasions
( A ) Check the prevalent situation in your area of residence or place of attendance, and consider participating remotely if moving or staying is a risk.
6. Participation in travel and events
( A ) When traveling, check the trendy situation of the residential area and the planned travel destination, and stop traveling if travel or stay is a risk. Don't have meals with others at the destination.
( B ) Participation in large-scale events such as sports watching confirms the epidemic situation in the residential area and the place of scheduled attendance, and if movement or participation becomes a risk, participation is postponed. Avoid having meals in the presence of others when participating.
7. Returning home
( A ) The minimum necessary for returning home is to be made.
( B ) Do not have meals with others when returning home.
With the July sumo tournament turning into something out of the Twilight Zone, with multiple wrestlers disappearing from competition each day because of the expansive quarantine rules, until only a handful remained at the end, I hoped that was going to be the low point, with things bending back toward normal once it became too obvious how unworkable this kind of approach is. Instead it seems the whole country is getting in on the act.
Absolutely mental. And I say this as a Canadian, where the unvaxxed until very recently weren't allowed to board planes or trains. Then again, it's not over yet so I mustn't jinx myself.
Yeah, the Japanese government is more constrained in what it can do. But it knows the population well even to know which buttons to push to get most them to take needless jabs.
This is why Abe Shinzo had to go. His intent included no biological experiments (vaxxes) and early treatment with ivermectin both thrown out the window by the current crooks.
Thank you for these reports. Do you, or anyone else here who's in Japan, remember when the nearly universal masking in Japan started? And, was it prompted by government authorities, or did people start doing it on their own, in response to the covid news they saw?
I'd say April 2020 was when universal 24/7 masking became common nationwide, prompted by the first state of emergency. Plenty of people were still unmasked in March, including Abe & Co.
https://guygin.substack.com/p/what-will-convince-the-japanese-to
It was prompted by the unholy trinity that maintain it now: government instruction, biased media, and peer-pressure.
Where do these idiots in the West get the idea that Japan is handling this well? Glad you are doing what you are doing to counter their ignorance. Thanks, Guy Gin,
Thanks. The western MSM has spent 2.5 years writing articles saying “Look how few deaths Japan has had. It must be the masks.” I figured nobody else was going to write about what a depressing clown show Japan has become, so I decided to do it myself.
The China-lite anti-Covid rules you shared seem to be standard for people working in medical facilities. Thankfully, my company has never tried to micro-manage the private lives of its employees.
Any anger you perceive in any of my responses is NOT directed at you. Got to get that out of the way first, as I have been burning with rage over all this for over 2 1/2 years.
Yes, I know those clowns in the western MSM have writing all kinds of BS about Japan for years, and have continued with gusto over covid. I can not tell you how many times I have responded to claims that Ivermectin is commonly prescribed for covid here. Don’t get me started on masks. I have been trying to get my med students to understand that they can not stop viruses for almost twenty years prior to covid. I am certified in the use or respirators and know a thing or two about them.
On the China-lite (Funny, I call the “Emergency Declarations”, “Lockdown Lite TM”) rules, the medical community should know better. In fact. I believe they do as one of my coworkers is an infectious disease control professional. He said that he and all in his field know that all we have been told to do is pointless but it is political. It being political, somehow has everyone afraid to speak out. Frustration does not cover it.
Sadly, many companies have done similar. The leader of our Obayashi (festival music) group works for a publisher. His company’s restrictions are similar to what I posted from the medical school. So are those of several other members who are regular kaishain. Oh, and the medical students are also to follow these. What kind of doctors and nurses are they going to turn out to be? Ah, which reminds me, we are also supposed to take our temperature daily and recorded it. Masks are required for online courses too. I got special permission to not wear one when I told that I would not wear a mask, period. I wonder why I am all but unemployed now... ah, what a mysterious world we live in.
Turning patients away is not new. The Japanese even have a term for it, “Taraimawashi”.
My first exposure to this practice was in the early 90s when a friends wife lost their baby as she spent all night in the back of an ambulance on labor inhibiting drugs being refused by hospital after hospital.
Hospitals in Tokyo have also turned away flu patients in the past when we have had high numbers of them, despite masking to prevent its spread.
Isn’t it queer, just as the cdc openly admits they really f’d up, Japan decides to go all lockdown. Surely, this is not just a coincidence.
None of these measure are new. Below is a redacted, machine translation of the rules for dealing with covid at one of my now former medical schools in Japan. It is from that latter part of 2020 or early 2021, updated later .Before I get to that, many companies have similar restrictions. Our local matsuri was cancelled again last year despite its date falling between “Emergency Declarations”. Too many members of our matsuri group worked for companies that forbade them from attending group activities, our monthly meetings included. However, those that we have had these past three Springs and Summers are indoors, away from prying eyes.
My son’s elementary school has practiced “Mokushoku” (eating in silence) since they went back to school in the summer of 2020.
The rules I was to follow.
Head of Hospital, ID REMOVED
Chairman of The Committee on Measures against Infection Prevention
Ver. 20210526
New Lifestyle Standards for Faculty and Staff,
XXXXXXXXX Hospital, MMMMMMMMM School of Medicine
(At-work)
1. Wearing a mask (nonwoven fabric) (prevention of droplet infection)
( A ) Faculty and staff are required to wear masks in indoor common places such as on-site classrooms, corridors, toilets, and hospitals. Always wear a mask other than when eating, drinking, blowing your nose, brushing your teeth, or smoking. Cover both the mouth and nose.
Grounds: Medical school students are required to wear masks when they enter the main building (at the student's own expense). Patients are asked to wear masks in the hospital (patients are preparing themselves).
( B ) Do not touch the surface of the mask. If it is to be touched, hand hygiene must be performed before and after.
( C ) Use a different mask for commuting and another for work.
2. Prevention of contact infection
( A ) Avoid contact with others other than medical care and medical examinations.
( B ) Do not touch your eyes or mouth with your hands. When touching cannot be avoided, carry out proper hand hygiene is made.
3. About hand hygiene
( A ) Hand hygiene is carried out with alcohol, such as quick-drying hand sanitizers in principle (wash hands with soap when there are reactions to alcohol or when dirt is visible). When treating patients in the hospital, carry hand sanitizer with you at all times.
( B ) WHO guidelines for hand hygiene timing (1) before touching the patient (2) before clean / sterile work (3) when there is a possibility of exposure to body fluids (4) after touching the patient (5) after touching any items around the patient.
Hand hygiene should also be carried out before breaks, before and after meals, before and after using the toilet, when entering the hospital from the medical office and when entering the hospital, before and after touching common objects (keyboard, mouse, touch panel, etc.).
4. About meals
( A ) Meals are to be consumed alone. Do not eat or drink in groups of two or more people (defined here as 会食).
( B ) Do not have conversations during meals.
( C ) Ensure at least 1 m of distance between people and try to avoid sitting face to face as much as possible.
( D ) Do not get or give people meals.
( E ) Don't use tableware.
( F ) Hydration is carried out in the staff room, etc., and not in the patient areas such as the corridors.
5. About meetings
( A ) Encourage web conferencing.
( B ) When holding a meeting, keep the distance between people.
( C ) Improve ventilation and provide sufficient ventilation.
( D ) The meeting should be held in a short time.
6. About the break
( A ) During breaks, the room should be ventilated (about once every 30 minutes). ( B ) Conversations should not be carried out without being masked.
( C ) Do not have long conversations.
( D ) Perform hand hygiene before taking a break.
( E ) Select an individual responsible for implementing staff room rules to ensure they are carried out before and after use.
7. Conversations on the university and in the hospital
( A ) Do not talk in narrow passages or corridors.
( B ) Do not have loud conversations.
( C ) Don't talk while walking.
8. About conferences
( A ) Do not keep the station dense.
( B ) Improve colds and provide sufficient ventilation.
( C ) The implementation time is short.
New Lifestyle Standards for Faculty and Staff, XXXXXXXXX Hospital, XXXXXXXXXX School of Medicine
(Daily Life)
1. About physical condition management
( A ) When there is poor physical condition such as fever, cold symptom, taste disorder, etc., do not commute, and confirm the correspondence to the affiliation. If the cause of fever is unknown, you will be staying at home until 4 days after fever according to the rules of the University .
( B ) The temperature is performed before going to work, and it records it.
( C ) If there are symptoms such as fever, cold symptom, taste disorder, etc. in the family, and PCR test needs to be carried out and the member must wait for the result and the correspondence is confirmed before the faculty/staff member can return to work.
2. Commuting and transportation use
( A ) When using public transportation, wear a mask and ensure proper social distancing protocols.
( B ) Refrain from conversations on public transportation such as buses and trains as much as possible.
( C ) Overseas travel must comply with University regulations.
3. About meals
( A ) Do not eat or drink (defined here as a 会食) in groups of two or more people other than with your family members.
( B ) Do not have conversations while eating out.
( C ) Do not talk as much as possible when eating at home.
4. Lifestyle
( A ) Avoid snuggling. Maintain social distance.
( B ) Don't have long conversations with others. (wear a mask)
( C ) Hand hygiene should be performed before and after meals, before work, and after returning home after touching items touched by others.
( D ) Wear a mask in the family depending on the situation.
( E ) Avoid situations where more than one person exercises indoors.
5. Ceremonial occasions
( A ) Check the prevalent situation in your area of residence or place of attendance, and consider participating remotely if moving or staying is a risk.
6. Participation in travel and events
( A ) When traveling, check the trendy situation of the residential area and the planned travel destination, and stop traveling if travel or stay is a risk. Don't have meals with others at the destination.
( B ) Participation in large-scale events such as sports watching confirms the epidemic situation in the residential area and the place of scheduled attendance, and if movement or participation becomes a risk, participation is postponed. Avoid having meals in the presence of others when participating.
7. Returning home
( A ) The minimum necessary for returning home is to be made.
( B ) Do not have meals with others when returning home.
With the July sumo tournament turning into something out of the Twilight Zone, with multiple wrestlers disappearing from competition each day because of the expansive quarantine rules, until only a handful remained at the end, I hoped that was going to be the low point, with things bending back toward normal once it became too obvious how unworkable this kind of approach is. Instead it seems the whole country is getting in on the act.
Sounds like Japan is failing up.
We had decades of lessons nicely documented.
It was not about ignorance.
The Japs herd-acted list most countries.