Comments on: Misc. News [Game Overview] http://nothingtothetable.com/archives/675 Opinions About Anything And Everything From People Not Qualified To Make Them. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:51:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Eric Mesa http://nothingtothetable.com/archives/675/comment-page-1#comment-2187 Eric Mesa Tue, 26 May 2009 18:43:12 +0000 http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/~dmesa/blog/?p=675#comment-2187 OOps, I ended my "cite" tag too early there... it should go to the end of my comment. Oh well. OOps, I ended my “cite” tag too early there… it should go to the end of my comment. Oh well.

]]> By: Eric Mesa http://nothingtothetable.com/archives/675/comment-page-1#comment-2186 Eric Mesa Tue, 26 May 2009 18:42:39 +0000 http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/~dmesa/blog/?p=675#comment-2186 According to <a href="http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-22/1214" title="A Wii Bit of Trouble as the Swine Flu Engulfs Kyoto" rel="nofollow">Jeff Freidl's blog post </a>, the japanese are taking things a little too extremely: <cite> I can understand not wanting to spread the flu, but I don't understand why this strain is accompanied by such hysteria. Consider this story about the first three cases in Japan, which talked about the devastating effects of the swine flu: “ The teacher had a fever as high as 38.6 degrees[ 100.5F ] and the students had temperatures of 36.6 [97.9F] and 37.1 [98.8F]. ” A temperature of 100.5F?! Oh my! (rolls eyes). They're being held in quarantine for 10 days. 100.5F is at the edge of what I'd consider a fever, but the other two are perfectly normal temperatures. Americans learn “body temperature is 98.6F” (37.0C), but Japanese tend to think a bit lower is normal.</cite> According to Jeff Freidl’s blog post , the japanese are taking things a little too extremely:


I can understand not wanting to spread the flu, but I don’t understand why this strain is accompanied by such hysteria. Consider this story about the first three cases in Japan, which talked about the devastating effects of the swine flu:
“ The teacher had a fever as high as 38.6 degrees[ 100.5F ] and the students had temperatures of 36.6 [97.9F] and 37.1 [98.8F]. ”

A temperature of 100.5F?! Oh my! (rolls eyes). They’re being held in quarantine for 10 days.

100.5F is at the edge of what I’d consider a fever, but the other two are perfectly normal temperatures. Americans learn “body temperature is 98.6F” (37.0C), but Japanese tend to think a bit lower is normal.

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