Friday February 17, 2012

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    tigerguy

    I wash my hands more often and wear a mask on crowded trains and in the busy malls. I keep the environment around me clean.

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    movieguy

    Same as "Tiger" with the exception of the mask. I thought we pretty much laid to rest that a mask can't protect you from viruses. It can only help stop the spread of viruses...

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    some14some

    Nothing absolutely because what others are doing now, i have been doing since my parents enrolled me to a primary school :)

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    grafton

    I did start making everybody that visited me wear a plastic bag over their head, but over the last two or three days I haven’t needed to do anything because I have had no visitors.

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    Altria

    Staying away from high school students...it's saving me money too.

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    nandakandamanda

    Washing my hands more carefully, until I noticed a massive swathe of white scum on a river near here. There must be a lot of soap being flushed into Nature nowadays.

    Masks can stop you involuntarily touching/scratching your nose and mouth, I was told by a doctor last night. Although if one of those little viruses settles on your nostril rim you are going to scratch under the mask, I guess.

    My wife has a cold. It was her birthday yesterday. I put some money on her bedroom table. She tried to come over and hug me, but I said, "Stay away from me!" & ran away.

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    space_monkey

    I dumped all my girlfriends!!

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    jackfish

    Trying to find a way to commute without going by train. Maybe I'll have the added benefit of getting more fit at the same time.

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    grafton

    Altria at 09:13 AM JST - 19th May “Staying away from high school students...it's saving me money too.”

    Both girls & boys?

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    nandakandamanda

    One of the teachers was off sick last week with a temperature of 40 degrees. "Just a cold" she assured everyone. I have been making sure to walk ahead of her down the corridor. Watch those trails, guys!

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    Andrew66

    I dont watch tv or listen to radio to avoid catching the panic flu. So dangerous.

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    nisegaijin

    I think the new flu is pretty much like old flu, just with different name. Said that, I don't want to catch flu per said so I do too wash my hands and keep clean. I don't take crowded trains so I am lucky in that part. I do take lots of vitamins, especially C.

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    neverknow2

    Don't stand near the disgusting people who continue to sneeze and cough without covering their mouth.

    Although they will cover their mouth if they start to laugh.

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    chinpira

    Absolutely None. I hope to catch it and if possible spread it to the masses.

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    realist

    I will tell you what Im NOT doing - wearing one of those stupid masks, which only breed germs. Apart from that, I am a hygenic person. I wash my hands, rinse my mouth out regularly, blow my nose when I have a cold, eat plenty of vegetables and fresh fruit, get plenty of sleep, avoid alcohol and smoke-filled environments like many Japanese Coffee shops (Doutor is one of the worst) and as a result I have only had the flu once in my life - about 30 years ago.

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    blvtzpk

    A flamethrower works wonders. Clears the air and the pathways in front of you. The gas tanks weigh a bit though. Just have to consider it a workout.

    @nandakandamanda: Money on her bedroom table?

    Hint: If you stop treating her like a 'lady-of-the-night', she might not run away. :)

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    Beelzebub

    Planning a vacation in Cancun. I've heard Mexican hotels have really cut their prices. So have the airlines.

    Moderator: Stay on topic please.

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    EUgirl

    Wash hands properly, carry a small bottle of hand disinfectant in my bag, avoid rush hours in trains, not to go to movies on first of month (1000 yen tickets rush), and give harsh stares to anybody who sneezes or coughs in trans without covering up with a tissue. Might also move further when a loud bunch of high schoolers gets onto the train. Maybe we should avoid Harajuku - it is full of high schoolers?

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    pawatan

    I've given up pig wrasslin' and cross the street whenever I see a high schooler. I cross even quicker when they are carrying volleyball gear.

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    nandakandamanda

    EUgirl, I like your ideas, but I find giving Death Stares doesn't seem to work in Japan. Just had lunch in the crowded college cafeteria and one young chap with a streaming cold sat down right in front of me and kept wiping his nose with the same wet tissue, and then with his fingers when he couldn't find a dry spot on the tissue any more... he didn't pick up on the daggers I was looking at him. Yuck.

    Many of the students are coming by car now. The parking lot is overflowing today.

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    Richard_the_First

    The trouble is that those with flu, don't really care if others get it. Of course they might want to prevent family or friends from catching it but not somebody they don't know, as why care? This is the real problem, when on trains for example.

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    EUgirl

    I was at the Nihongo noryoku shiken some 1,5 yrs ago, and this Chinese guy sitting next to me kept on sneezing and sneezing and wiping his noze with his fingers, and it bothered me when I was trying to concentrate. I finally took a bag of tissues from my bag and gave it to him saying doozo! He gave them back to me, wouldn't take them! What the hell was that?

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    cow76

    New flu means swine flu? If so, please say so. I know Japan changed the name to 新型　but nobody else did.

    I'm avoiding swine flu by doing nothing to avoid swine flu. Not caring means I don't stress and therefore my immune system is stronger. Everyone else should do the same.

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    moonbeams

    I eat raw garlic. Garlic has a compound called allinin that turns to allicin after 10 seconds exposure to the microbes in the air. Allicin has a short life and must be consumed immediately. It's natures best defense against foreign objects entering your body.

    Just mince a clove of garlic and eat it over a salad.

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    stirfry

    drinking heavily

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    grafton

    moonbeams at 05:17 PM JST - 19th May

    Great idea, not sure about the medical efficiency of garlic but it is sure to increase your personal space by at least a metre or so. The smell of second hand garlic would keep anybody at a distance.

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    Monoflow

    @EUgirl... well, that's kind of chinese acting, these guys often are noisy and disturbing... I wear no mask or change my life because of the swine flu, as usual i don't use public transport, so I think I will survive. We will see...

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    Kalinikos

    Nothing special...!

    I am living my poor life normally...! I hope to catch this virus NOW and immunize my body...because, i think, in a later season, this viruse will come back in a more lethal form...!

    No one can run from this menace then enjoy your lifes...!

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    shanabelle

    The WHO made efforts to have the title of 'swine flu' changed to H1N1 flu or new strain flu....but it looks as though the English language media have mostly have stuck with (the more dramatic sounding) swine flu. I am glad Japan (and the media here) have gone with 新型　（new type) influenza, as the name of this strain, as I hope this won't end in the needless slaughter of animals.....this has gone beyond the swine to human stage anyway. I think the number of patients is still no cause for hysteria at this stage...but come next winter this could turn messy. I too believe caution is the best way to go right now.

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    EUgirl

    In a sense, if you are unlucky to catch this, it would be better to get it now, as you are sure to get good care in the hospital. Once 2 million people in this country are sick, they will have beds crammed on the hospital corridors, linen room, wherever...and no nurse has time to pay any personal attention to you. If Tamiflu is tight, they might not give it to everybody.

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    telecasterplayer

    I've retreated into the mountains with a 3-month supply of jerky and a blunderbuss, to a cabin that's had every window, seam and crevice thoroughly duct-taped.

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    dracpoo2

    Well, I am doing my best. Washing my hands often wearing the mask in crowded areas, gargling etc. All this is negated however, by the fact that I have to report to a studentless school at ground zero everyday. But, as I said I will try my very best.

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    EUgirl

    What do you guys think of fitness clubs? How big a danger? Everybody handles the machines, then there are the yoga mats...

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    Himajin

    I haven't been to the gym since April 27 because I went to the US on 5/1, got back on 5/13 and have stayed in 'just in case'. I'm going on Friday, and I'll be very disappointed if there is not more disinfectant spray to be had. They have stuff to spray the mats with, but just towels to wipe the sweat off the machines, I don't think that's enough.

    I'd spray any mat I'd be using, I think.

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    Himajin

    Hahaha, no one was thinking of licking the mats, but some exercises do bring one's face in contact with the mat, in ordinary circumstances even I'd like to know it was clean.

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    EUgirl

    I was at the club (advertized above this discussion) yesterday, and no disenfectant in sight, no directions on handwashing in the dressing room or toilet. There was a small A4 on the notice board about the influenza, that is all. There was a 1 meter poster on fight on cellulite - as if cellulite was my biggest concern now.

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    Bento

    There was once an experiment done involving about 25 people(naked) who were strangers to each other before the experiment commenced, were confined for 2 hours in a space about the size of a squash court. One of these people had been contaminated with uv visible only fluorescent dye placed at the base of their spine,an area of dye no bigger than a 500 yen coin.After 2 hours confined together, without exception every one was now covered from head to foot with that dye. You may think you can avoid the virus but the practicalities of 'actualy avoiding' the virus render meaningful life impossible, you would have to avoid all other people and not touch any surface that any other human has touched for the viable life span of the virus.Btw going to a gym would not be one of the ways.

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    Nessie

    Staying home and posting on JT...Wait, I smell a conspiracy.

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    elbudamexicano

    No sex! I have stopped having sex to keep from catching this H1N1 virus!

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    Himajin

    Staying home and posting on JT...Wait, I smell a conspiracy.

    :-D

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    WMD

    Nothing of course. This swine flu hoax just has to be the joke of the century. The japanese government goes crazy over a harmless flu which has killed nobody in japan but doesn't give a s*** about 30,000 plus suicides evey year. Mental. Just mental.

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    BurakuminDes

    There was once an experiment done involving about 25 people(naked) who were strangers to each other before the experiment commenced, were confined for 2 hours in a space about the size of a squash court. One of these people had been contaminated with uv visible only fluorescent dye placed at the base of their spine,an area of dye no bigger than a 500 yen coin.After 2 hours confined together, without exception every one was now covered from head to foot with that dye.

    Bento, when will this naked experiment take place again? I am more than willing to take part - in the name of research, of course...!

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    spudman

    elbudamexicano: so what are you doing differently from usual?

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    XXXXX

    nothing except the usual. I did wear a mask yesterday at the uni hospital. The staff was so polite and efficient.

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