Japan's Pokémon Centers Are Currently Closed Due To Ongoing State Of Emergency

Not surprised the slightest. The more people don't listen, the longer we have to wait at home. Simple as that.

@ModdedInkling Listen to what? Vaccinated people can still get and spread the Delta strain.

Welp, Can't wait to see how the comments go form here. 🍿

@smithyo I legitimately hope all that is true.

I wish the U.S. was still taking the Delta variant this seriously ☹
As it stands, some anti-vaxxer can just walk into the Nintendo store here without a mask :/

@CharlieGirl only because you have no idea what it means.

@fiben1002 But at a lower chance, with a much lower rate, which is the whole point.

You can still end up in a deadly car crash, even if you have working brakes, are sober, wear a seatbelt, and have air bags. Doesn't mean that those things aren't important, because they drastically lower the chance of you and other people getting hurt.

@Octane Oh I know the vaccine is effective. I'm fully vaccinated and got the Delta strain and it was like a typical cold with no lung involvement (while an unvaccinated family member had a much tougher time) so I absolutely recommend getting it. But the virus itself spreads too easily to just disappear. It'll surge again after every shutdown.

@fiben1002 but they won't end up in the hospital asking for air.
So yeh if they listen and everybody was vaccinated no need for shutdown.

@Mortenb good thing some people are not in the medical field!

@CharlieGirl You know what is more stupid than an anti-vaxxer? An anti-anti-vaxxer. I am fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but I fully respect people that chose not to. Everyone is allowed to chose what happens to their own body.

If you want to be protected to a virus which isn't lethal for almost everyone <70? Go ahead.
If you'd rather wait and see if the vaccins are safe in the long term? Go ahead as well.

If you want other people to respect your life choices, you will first have to respect theirs.

I can’t believe people are still downplaying the virus this many months later. Like…. I seriously wonder about your cognitive function at this point.

@Sdelintwouters I am fully vaccinated but I am *half against the pass.

My problem is not the pass itself, but how they do it in my country which is via a smartphone only app (because the gov here goes full into "app this, app that but no other option than that" or if any then you are restricted because it is not a app)

I don't want that and I would prefer a more physical method, but that is not a option so I am out of luck.

*the pass is not going to solve the issue in the long run, it will only do that for the short term.

@sanderev everybody does have a choice.

But a great example is my mom, while not that old she has poor health and got covid 3 days before it was finally her turn for a jab.

It's simple to say "if a anti vaxxer doesn't want to be safe that is their choice" which would work in a perfect world, but same anti vaxxer can make other people sick.

And my problem is that a lot of anti vaxxers I know do and live the same way like pre pandemic, wearing a mask where needed? Nope. Having distance from other people? Nope. Following ANY of the covid rules? Nope.

It's fine they don't want a jab, but at least follow the goddamn rules because otherwise you can make people sick that never asked for it.

@smithyo I don't care what government or media say about virus prevention, I care what the base rules of science say about virus prevention. Just get vaccinated, please.

@smithyo You`re right. People don`t even understand what health is anymore.

@sanderev - This is the most logical stance I've seen on the subject yet, so fair play, my friend.

@smithyo - Literally the only reason to get vaccinated at this stage is to protect yourself, because you can still transmit it to other people, so I'm taking the chance without it, personally. I won't be peer pressured by our government into getting an experimental vaccine that 'might' protect me against something which is rapidly changing all the time. And to introduce vaccine passports to allow people to have the freedom they once had is unethical and goes against basic democratic rights. I'm not buying into it and will believe it when I see it.

@CharlieGirl What are those rules? How do they tell you how to act and how to treat other people? If you have to choose between a situation that kills 5 grandmas, or 1 baby, what do you do? Does science help?

@ItsjustAnotherGamer That's a pretty naive way to live your life. Do you always believe everything you're told without question? I haven't been swayed by fake media, I've been swayed by our actual media, forcing this idea upon us that this vaccine is the answer. I already had my own scepticism initially and when I found out that the vaccine doesn't even stop the spread I decided against it. The only one at risk here is me. I still social distance and wear a mask, because people are generally disgusting anyway.

@Mortenb @damien33ad @fiben1002
Never once did I mention the virus itself was dangerous. I'm talking solely about the governments constantly panicking. The three of you have to accept that they will keep locking us down until we actually listen, virus or not. Just patiently wait it out, because they aren't gonna change their minds. The sooner you accept that, the less you'll complain, even if their decision-making is questionable. If you do decide to object against their decisions, it's only gonna prolong lockdowns because of how scared they are of spreading COVID.

@ModdedInkling Maybe. How is that going to help though? The virus is never going away. Are they just suddenly going to stop being afraid?

I'm just going to put my view/experience on the vaccine situation, like others me and my partner didn't like the idea of the vaccine due to it only being 70% effective, the fact you need top ups every so often, new variants which will eventually bypass the vaccine etc so we made the decision to wait until they made a vaccine that was 100% and was better at fighting off variants or we got it ourselves and had the anti bodies (big mistake)

In July I got covid and two days after gave it my partner, I suffered a fever with flu symptoms and loss of taste and smell and went after 7 days.

But my partner had no symptoms apart from loss of taste but then the last two days of her isolation period she started to breath more heavily like she's been out running for hours, and in the middle of the night I woke up to her breathing really bad and her skin was grey and she was hallucinating, I phoned the ambulance and they took her to hospital, covid had collapsed her lungs and she was a couple hours from dying, imagine if I never woke up in the middle of the night!

She was put into a coma and ventilator for 9 days, she was in hospital a month but she is home now, she still can't get up and down the stairs as she gets out of breath and tired after 4 steps and her hands/arms feel numb and hurt.

And she's only 25 with no underlying health problems, having the vaccine would of prevented this.

Also having the vaccine might protect you but you from getting seriously ill but you can still spread it, I don't understand why getting the vaccine permits you not to wear a face mask?

@ItsjustAnotherGamer If I'm not listening to our scientific 'experts' and I won't be peer pressured from our government with possibility of vaccine passports, then I'm certainly not going to listen to a stranger on the internet. But thanks for the suggestion.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yes, vaccines do decrease the likelihood of serious illness. She was very unlucky to get seriously ill. Such things do also occur with all other kinds of diseases every year though. Even to kids. It actually is rarer for people of your age to become seriously ill from covid, than it was with influenza.

But wearing a mask all the time does actually increase likelihood of respiratory illnesses in general. Also, they do nothing to prevent you from spreading anything that spreads the way typical respiratory viruses do. N95 might slightly decrease the likelihood of getting it, very slightly, but not from spreading it. But I think even N95 masks should only be used very sparingly in situations you know you are at immediate risks. The thing that protects a lot better than either masks or vaccines is just having high vitamin D levels, and spending time in fresh air and sunlight, socializing and making sure one is not eating towards developing diabetes. I think many people have gotten a lot more frail over the last 1.5 years. I`m afraid your story is going to get increasingly common, precisely because of all the indoors sitting and lack of socializing. In the end most people might actually need vaccines all the time to just go outdoors.

@damien33ad
Sociopolitical discussions aren't my thing anyways. The term "freedom" has always been far too subjective, politically speaking, for me to want to get into a discussion.

@Mortenb
As you know already, the vaccine mostly works. I'm pretty sure lockdowns will go away once most people have gotten the vaccine, and that's what we're waiting for.

So guys hey yeah Pikachu right? That little mouse guy? So cute, am I right?

Love that guy.

@Maxz who?

Had a trip planned for Japan for Summer 2020
... Pushed it to summer 2021 and now pushed to summer 2022..... I dont think that is happening now..... I am vaxxed and i had a pretty bad case of breakthrough Covid.... I am 100 percent sure i would have died or placed on a ventilator if i was unvaxxed. Just my 2 cents.....

@ModdedInkling

I think not. Most people here in Holland are vaccinated and yet we can possibly get a ''corona passport'' just to be able to do stuff, going to the theatres etc.. I'm fully vaccinated, but in no way am I going to download the corona app. It's ridiculous; once people get a taste of power they only want more.

@Mauzuri
It's really for the sake of those around us rather than ourselves, which is the thing that most people often forget during this pandemic and still do today.

I wish people would learn to educate themselves before making comments. Japan’s issues with the vaccinations are not because people don’t want to get vaccinated, it’s because in Japan you can only be vaccinated by a medical nurse or doctor. They just don’t have enough people to administer the shot in a quick manner. It isn’t because people refuse to get vaccinated as many people like to speculate.

Japan has actually asked other countries for assistance in sending nurses and doctors over to help vaccinations, but Unfortunately many do not want to help.

I work in a hospital currently, if you think the pandemic is over and we are past this kind of thing, you live in a fairy tale.

The US should have closed back down weeks ago and never let children back into schools. Tens of thousands of people have gotten sick that way.

I have seen the numbers, if the US cared at all about her own citizens, even 1/10th as much as Japan cares about its own people, we'd be doing the same thing.