Employee At Pokémon Dev Game Freak Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Sad news hope they make a full recovery.

Not good when someone gets CV19 hopefully they Traced all the contacts

Like all victims of this horrendous pandemic, I hope this person can successfully fight off the virus and recuperate.

Best wishes to the member of staff, plus anyone else who has had to suffer this horrid virus!!

Over 2.5 million confirmed cases world wide, tens of thousands dead. This virus is incredibly contagious and monsterously disruptive to society.

Nothing I have seen or read suggests we have been able to do anything more than slow the spread. And the fight against the virus is hindered by people who still don't take the virus seriously or even are still claiming it is a hoax.

People please, cooperate with your local guidelines as much as it possible. Don't believe the tin-foil hat wearing lunatics claiming it isn't real or serious. I have a family member who has tested positive. I have coworkers who have tested positive(thankfully for me, they are from different buildings and we're working from home now).

The virus is real, it's dangerous and we're only going to beat it be fighting it at every step of the way.

Sweden has had the best plan for handling the pandemic, in my opinion. Fear-mongering isn’t the answer.

Folks act like if you don’t agree with total lockdown you must be running around licking door handles. There are safe, responsible ways to temporarily segregate our communities at certain risk-lines until the pandemic has subsided or a vaccine is developed. Total lockdown for all isn’t the answer and isn’t sustainable.

@Heavyarms55 The virus is real, it's dangerous and we're only going to beat it be fighting it at every step of the way.
Trying telling that to idiots @WH and those Troll Protesters.....

@Cevil OK, but "this guy made an Animal Crossing toilet roll!" is?

@Grot And yet Sweden has way more deaths than Norway, Finland and Denmark combined. On average about four times higher than in any of the previous mentioned countries. Fear-mongering isn't the answer, but neither is ignorance.

@Octane Sweden also has double the population of Norway and a Finland.

There’s also a huge disparity between countries attributing deaths properly, testing for the virus, etc. Sweden’s execution may not have been perfect, but they had the right plan. Protect the communities at risk of severe symptoms and allow the rest to build herd immunity.

We aren’t getting a vaccine anytime soon, and we can’t sustain these levels of lockdown measures for as long as some people would like. This isn’t a sustainable way to fight the virus, and the reality is it’s no worse than a common cold for the vast majority of the people who contract it.

You’re right, ignorance isn’t the answer either. Acting like the repercussions from a sustained total lockdown won’t be longer lasting and potentially deadlier than the pandemic itself is ignorant.

@Grot I should've said adjusted for differences in population. Sweden has double the population of Norway, but ten times the numbers of COVID-19 related deaths.

I'm not sure that's the 'right' plan, I don't think there is any. Immunity has been questioned as well, since individuals have been tested positive twice. Whether that means you can contract the virus more than once, or whether those are just false positives remains to be seen. But I wouldn't assume either way without knowing it for certain. Medical research is conducted 24/7, and if a lockdown can give them enough time to learn enough about the virus, then so be it. What's the saying? It's better to be safe than sorry?

''and the reality is it’s no worse than a common cold for the vast majority of the people who contract it.'' Maybe for a decent chunk of the population, but tell that everyone who is in IC right now on a ventilator. In The Netherlands, out of the 35,000 people tested positive, around 10,000 required hospitalisation. Not everyone is tested of course, but the number of people required care isn't trivial. If hospitals can't keep up with the demand, people can't get the care they require.

Additionally, the government is providing support to small businesses and self-employed people at the moment; and as of right now it's working. Hospital admissions are decreasing in our country, and they are looking at ways to open up the country more (not right now, but in a month or so), whilst keeping the hospital admissions down.

@Heavyarms55 what happened to those who tested positive? Hopefully, they recovered.

@Grot,

Exactly, there is a real situation here but people are carrying on as if it's the black death. when it's still a very small percentage of the overall worldwide population.

@Cevil
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@Octane I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. I didn’t trivialize the folks who are struggling with the disease, though. I think it’s important to protect high risk communities and to provide the medical support necessary for those with extreme symptoms. That doesn’t change the fact that as a global population, we are woefully under-tested, and estimates put actual infections at far greater magnitudes than reported.

It’s easy to use the current statistics to argue for a total lockdown, but those statistics are very, very inaccurate, given what we know about how infectious the disease truly is. Mortality rates are probably less than half of what’s actually reported. Some estimates put infections at ten times what’s been actually reported, due to only testing the sick and high numbers of asymptomatic infections.

It’s easy to paint a doom and gloom picture with these numbers, but the reality of it is that mortality rates are certainly lower than the current data suggests.

Best wishes to the employee, whether he's just a programmer or had a hand in cutting the National Dex. We all stand as one when it comes to safety.

@Octane,

Nobody knows what the right course of action is, what works for one country may not work for another, and as for the experts there is no such thing as this is pretty much a new issue for everybody.

Lock downs are an answer, but you have to factor in how much of an actual lock down it is when people can still go out, plus the effect it will have on the economy and people's lives, as let's be honest we need to have something at the end of all this, and that's not even taking peoples mental health into consideration.

@buggysdad My uncle got treatment and is stable. I don't know the coworkers who got sick personally, but no one has mentioned anyone passing away.

I assume that's who you were asking me about?

Stay safe everyone!
I live close to one of the hard hit areas. (Two actually a city, one of the hardest hit in the US; and a county next to me considered a rural hot spot) A few of my friends got really sick. So sad to hear them talk being in the hospital not knowing if they're going to make it and not be able to have family with them. Luckily they've made it.

There has been family members of friends, local politicians, front line workers, and more who haven't been so lucky.

@Heavyarms55
Too bad, there is not a chance we can "beat" it. 🤷‍♂️

I’m just so happy where it is possible for many people to work from home and socialize with technology. We have it so good compared to pandemics of the past!

I don't know how I feel about this outing of people who've tested positive. It feels uncomfortably 80s HIV / 50s McCarthyism to me. :-/

Obviously not just a NintendoLife thing...

@Heavyarms55 Glad to hear everyone recovered. Good news.

@MrBlacky we'll get there. It's not going to be easy or quick but we will.

I am almost positive I and my in-laws had it, it is not fun if you get a bad case, took me almost 6 weeks to fully recover, I was even coughing up blood at one point.

@Grot

That is *****, I'm Swedish and but living in Czechia (Czech Republic) at the moment.
Swedeni is a much larger country with a slightly smaller population. so in theory social distancing should be less of a problem.
And yet, Czechia have less infected and less deaths. and the curve is still going down here. Sweden has no excuse for this.

The czech republic has introduced a national quaratine and you'll get fined if you leav your house without wearing a facemask.

Sweden has barely any restrictions and the ones that are in place are so loose that they won't make any difference.

@BENDsli Yet, your profile photo is frickin' Alcremie.

Apparently you have a different definition of "beating it". If your definition is living your life in panic, in surveillance and sooo much not to do and live for, then thatˋs your take on "beating it". 🤷‍♂️

For those that are against restrictions and crumbling economies during this crisis I ask this: "Would you willingly give your life to keep the economy afloat"? because that's what a lot of people have to do against their will.

I rather have some restrictions im my life for a while if it saves people.