#CoronavirusUpdate 2021/6/7🇯🇵Tokyo has done it again. Government of Japan has decided to change the calculation for hospital usage so as to manipulate the resulting risk level assessment. Accordingly, with new calculation # of Stage 4 prefectures are reduced from 20→11.
According to #報道1930, the new calculation would affect the overall assessment of risk levels by lowering the definition of hospital capacity from “all positive AND other patients” to “all whom are committed to COVID beds”, thereby understating the actual hospital capacity.
In actuality the “COVID beds” are often near-full and the beds are extended to other beds to accommodate severe patients. The original calculation reflected this. Now the ground reality would be understated to create a false pretense of “less risk”. This has serious repercussions
With the new calculation, the “actual” risk will be understated to assess the overall risk which determines the criteria to declare #stateofemergency: actual risk will NOT be represented in the government’s decision. This erroneous assessment would affect the measures in place.
With understated risk, restrictive measures will be relaxed for areas where it should NOT be, creating a greater risk of spreading the infection in actual affected areas with limited hospital capacity. This would further strain the medical resources and undermine ER capacity.
As a result, areas which should be restricted will be open for access with lifting of #stateofemergency measure, thereby creating a new impetus for infections to spread. But this will no longer be represented correctly in the national risk assessment. This is truly terrifying.
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🇵🇸🇯🇵In light of situation in #Gaza, a small patisserie in #Tokyo has decided, “after long, long, contemplation”NOT TO OFFER 🎄Xmas cakes this year. Instead, they will be offering this special Prayers for Peace (平和の祈り)🕊️🍰 cake. Owner explained the background in her thread.
1/ [For everyone who has been expecting our announcement on Christmas cakes]
Thank you so much for your patience.
Our heart is finally set.
We are going to tell you a not-so-bright story, although its about Christmas cakes. We think it is impossible to make things bright without talking about not-so-bright matters, so we would be happy if you could read it til the end.
@GlobeEyeNews The author of the original Yahoo! article (professor at TUFS) checked the PSIA page to confirm this was true. HAMAS was no longer on the list of terrorist/armed groups, along with Taleban and 181 other organizations. 9 groups were added and 183 removed. moj.go.jp/psia/ITH/organ…
@GlobeEyeNews Here is the page from PSIA which formerly had HAMS (ハマス) and Taleban (タリバン) as entries in the list of terrorist/armed groups. moj.go.jp/psia/ITH/organ…