Declan Murphy wrote:
> On May 10, 8:48 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Marvel wrote:
>>> Could anyone be so kind as to direct me to Japanese text explaining the
>>> Swine Influenza.
>>> ...Just trying to explain the recent outbreak and symptoms etc...
>>> Thanks...
>> Apparently, you now have your wish.  A bunch of high school kids coming
>> back from a student exchange trip to Canada seem to have brought back a
>> planeload of Type 1.  Three in confinement, 49 in quarantine ... 33 in
>> the school group, 16 passengers seated around them, and the cabin crew.
> 
> Ooooh! Lemme guess, lemme guess, lemme guess - the nationality of all
> of them.
> 
> Um, Japanese?
> 
> One of our recent arrivals (no fever, no symptoms, more than 14 days
> in country) decided out of some misguided public spiritness to have a
> check up - "just in case". An ambulance arrived within minutes, with 5
> fucking staff, dressed in what could have been NBC (nuclear/biological/
> chemical) suits back in the day before Hollywood got slightly more
> paranoid than before. Less than 30 minutes later, a journalist from
> the Chunichi Shimbun rings us up (either they monitor the radios or
> hospital staff inform them) demanding to know where the student lived,
> what the address of the accommodation was etc etc. I stone walled the
> arsehole and when the "insei" was declared about 20 minutes later,
> wanted to either abuse the bastard or kick him in the nuts, but
> instead had to placate the cunt.

I have shared this and the previous post about sending in only the 
long-term visa holders for examination to a friend who is a very highly 
ranked cancer expert, surgeon, and consultant for the Kosei Rodosho (as 
well as fuku-whatever-is-really-high-up of one of the National Cancer 
Hospitals). He wasn't surprised, but noted that Aichi- and Mie-ken's 
health offices are a sort of standing joke within the Ministry, anyway.

He'd just returned from a trip to the US for a conference and had to go 
through an on board quarantine  which consisted of a "health officer" 
(sic), dressed in disposable cap, robe, mask, and rubber gloves walking 
through the aircraft cabin holding a thermograph and, when they located 
a suspicious signal, they officer would bend over, directly in the 
person's face, where they'd be breathed or coughed on, and ask "Do you 
have a fever?"  If the person said "No" they'd just move on.

When he got off the plane, he went to the quarantine office, flashed his 
ID, and asked about the procedure.  He was told that the officers wear 
the same cap, robe, gloves, and mask all day and each one visits, maybe, 
60 incoming planes without changing to a new set of protective clothing. 
  The person in charge of the office was quite proud of the amount of 
money he was saving the government.

He's told me a couple of times that there is a kanryo class within the 
Ministry made up entirely of people who have taken and passed the MD 
courses but have been determined to have the bedside manner of a slug. 
So, to recoup their investment, the government makes them Ministry 
officials instead of dispatching them to hospitals ... with these kinds 
of results ...

-- 
CL