Japanese news shows are great at making little explanatory graphics. Now, we could impose any number of willful misinterpretations on this diagram (and I hope you will), but it does get to the point.
Japan is pretty far from any recorded outbreak so far. But not really. Nowhere is. They do have fever-cams at the airport, though, that show the temperatures of people coming through arrivals.
They did a photo montage from Mexico (with ominous sound effects) and interviewed a Japanese boxer living there who said it was a little scary and he didn't want to go outside. Then they scrummed Japanese arrivals from Mexico at the airport. A tanned youngish man in a ballcap blinked in the camera lights and said he had no idea what they were talking about.
A NY correspondent said that a local pharmacy had already sold out of face masks. Panic! (I didn't know we even carried them, but, moving on.)
And then, they gave a list of things people should prepare at home - 50 face masks per person, canned food for a month, liters of clean water, a hand-crank flashlight and radio, etc. Which sounds out of proportion and crazy. But not completely.
Incidentally, I imagine all the photos of people in face masks are eerie elsewhere, but from here, it looks like a normal day on the subway. Except that the masks are blue and creepy instead of white and creepy.
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Last night I was jamming with the guys fighting decidedly flu like symptoms. Ethan our drummer was wearing an ominously titled 美豚 with a pig on it.
http://www.fukuou.biz/pic-labo/limg/multi2.jpg
Get it?
No! I don't get it. Biton? Mibuta? I've seen those shirts before. Do tell.
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