leitmotiv said...

leitmotiv at 11:23 PM JST - 24th September

Why no more emphasis on where it was contracted? If it's simply because the virus is so widepsread....

That is correct. The virus is everywhere so little can be learned from pinpointing where each case came from. The tests for that are expensive and better spent in other ways at…

Posted in Japanese school in Singapore closed for 3 days due to flu infections at 11:23 PM JST - 24th September
leitmotiv at 10:31 PM JST - 24th September

Too early to celebrate. Even if the 31% risk reduction is accurate, that still leaves a 69% chance you will become infected after having unprotected sex with an HIV+ partner. That's like playing Russian Roulette with a revolver that has 4 loaded chambers and two empty ones. Who likes those…

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leitmotiv at 02:16 PM JST - 24th September

Every single person I've asked who gets the flu (regular flu) says they had a shot

Sounds like you carried out a valid and controlled scientic study and demonstrated the opposite of what has been conventionally accepted for many decades. Did you publish your findings? You may make the Nobel…

Posted in 7-year-old boy dies of new-flu infection in Shiga at 02:16 PM JST - 24th September
leitmotiv at 12:51 PM JST - 15th September

I dont know details of this case, but I wonder if Japan's backwards business system of "hanko" certification played an enabling role.

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leitmotiv at 03:37 PM JST - 22nd July

send the public into a panic come fall so they all buy it at jacked up prices

Prices are already 100% jacked down by MHLW to the point that no investment in new technologies can be made in japan vaccines - thus sector is technologically primitive compared to US/EU. They…

Posted in New-flu cases top 4,000 in Japan at 03:37 PM JST - 22nd July
leitmotiv at 03:34 PM JST - 22nd July

Of course, they could just be keeping a tally so that they can try and justify buying and importing the majority of the world's new vaccine and send the public into a panic come fall so they all buy it at jacked up prices.

Japan imports almost no vaccines generally…

Posted in New-flu cases top 4,000 in Japan at 03:34 PM JST - 22nd July
leitmotiv at 02:09 PM JST - 15th July

Ha! I'll try to care about this affont to decorum that the poor, hapless "older men" are forced to endure the next time I see all those older men on the crowded hibya line with a finger stuck into ear or nose to the 2nd knuckle rooting around for some…

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leitmotiv at 04:03 PM JST - 5th June

Your link does not support what you state above - which is "Some studies have even suggested that flu vaccinations haven't made any appreciable difference in the annual death rates."

That study is restricted to vaccination of seniors - and every clinician and researcher knows the difficulties of showing vaccine…

Posted in New-flu cases reach 410 in Japan at 04:03 PM JST - 5th June
leitmotiv at 03:10 PM JST - 5th June

"Some studies have even suggested that flu vaccinations haven't made any appreciable difference in the annual death rates."

Which studies? The opposite has been shown - and most extensively in Japan.

Posted in New-flu cases reach 410 in Japan at 03:10 PM JST - 5th June
leitmotiv at 03:05 PM JST - 5th June

Man up, my friend.

This means zero coming from you.

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