DREAMY DAYS IN WEST TOKYO 3 YEARS LATER WINDOWS

You can check the number of 'excess deaths' during the covid period in Japan here: We'd know by now if there were any cover up - there'd be a huge glut in the number of deaths from those other indications you mentioned. Thank you for stating your reasoning but that is an article from two years ago. It also says that most requests for autopsies get denied, so people don't bother asking anymore. Time to gingerly step into those shoes and take a look around.

and we, too, will be old, infirm with comorbidities that will put us at heightened risk someday. I can imagine that, if they were tech-savvy, they would relate their fear in seeing the growing callousness in society, as frustration takes the form of denialism and selfishness.Īmazing - especially since, presumably, we all have aged family and friends.

That aged demographic is also the least represented in this online medium. Some posters nonchalantly write about the very elderly taking the brunt of this pandemic, as if this is somehow okay or acceptable. I thank the scientists, doctors and those invested in public health for saving our lives everyday. We all have a part in reducing transmission and mitigating risk - there is no silver bullet, obviously, but we have tools that help: we know what those are by now. We have interactions with the aged (family/neighbors), so we think of them, too. We time things with consideration to the bell-curve: this is living with the virus for a vulnerable family. While numbers are this high, we reduce our non-essential outings. Vaxxed, boosted and ready for antiviral medication that my internal medicine primary physician says he'll prescribe me immediately after a positive diagnosis. My family follows the same protocols - our young kids may bring it home from school we're prepared for that eventuality. Knock on wood, I haven't caught the virus yet. I have multiple underlying health conditions, so I take it seriously.

DREAMY DAYS IN WEST TOKYO 3 YEARS LATER WINDOWS

In both the train and classroom, I open the windows nearby to aid ventilation.

If I have to take a train here in Osaka, I wear a (J)N-95 mask with wrap-around glasses.

Dreamy days in west tokyo 3 years later