[GENERAL] The AKB48 Thread

Only Sakipon (and now Yuiyui)'s participation in those concerts has been cancelled, currently. They will most likely cancel all concerts, but have not yet done so.

Sakipon is a confirmed close contact, and Yuiyui is confirmed to have covid. As a result neither will be participating in upcoming events until they are well and done with quarantine. Ayanan, Naachan, and Miu (and yesterday Hiichan) had to cancel their ohanashi-kai for the day due to feeling unwell, but there's no word yet whether they have covid yet (probably test results aren't back yet). Yuiri, Erii, and Mahopyon also cancelled their talks today due to being "suspected close contacts", probably meaning they are close contacts of someone suspected but not yet confirmed to have the virus (i.e. Naachan and Ayanan).


edit: Incorrectly claimed Sakipon had covid.

 

Thanks for clarifications

 

Interesting. They're precisely the group of people that escaped the last wave because they got their jabs first.

 

Meanwhile, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Ireland and the UK have lifted all the restrictions despite having a huge number of infections.

 

That's because infection numbers in those countries are dropping and hospitilisations and deaths did not spike nearly as high as the same time last year. Japan's method of dealing with covid is just prolonging the emergency.

 

Japan seems to have less cases and less deaths than the UK despite having a much larger population.

The UK's previous peak (December 2020):

• 59k cases per day
• 1.3k deaths per day (2.45%)

Japan's previous peak (August 2021):

• 23k cases per day
• 52 deaths per day (0.27%)

The UK's current situation:

• 195k cases per day (unclear if rising or falling)
• 382 deaths per day (0.20%)

Japan's current situation:

• 80k cases per day (rising)
• 52 deaths per day (0.07%)

In any case, technically, if Japan had the UK's politicians running the country, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have any regulations in place. Their numbers are technically still better than the UK's, although of course every death is tragic.

Also, I'm not trying to say I'm against the rules, I just don't think saying the situation in the UK is better is really true.

I personally think it's hard to say which country is gonna come out of this spike with the better results... in the end, everyone's losing many lives every day.

 

I'm fully aware of that, it's happening in most countries, especially where vaccination rates are higher. But that's true because omicron is more contagious but also milder than the other variants. And it attacks both vaccinated and 'unvaxxed'. Usually, the variant that wins is the one that spreads quicker but doesn't kill (as much) their host, which makes sense. Although the immunity it offers isn't as strong as delta's.
Yes, there are people dying, but they're also dying from other viruses and diseases, especially in the Winter. If people had any idea how many die every year from the flu, if the media haunted us with its numbers the same way they do with COVID, nobody would leave their houses. But no one ever cared, did they? How many got the flu jab?

Not to mention that the numbers of hospitalizations and deaths are questionable. If you go to the hospital because you broke a leg, they test you there and it's positive, you're considered a hospitalization due to COVID. It's insane. A huge percentage are "with COVID" and not "from COVID".

How many people of their age died in Japan? Of those infected recently which ones had symptoms worse than a cold? I'm just wondering if it was really necessary the whole thing. In sports, when a player or group of people test positive they simply isolate those and the rest keeps training and playing against other humans.

 

Whadda actual fuck is this. I saw this from Queendom thread
AKB48 is rumored to send a 7-member unit to participate in Queendom Season 2.

 

I hope not. Don't want to deal anymore with fandoms of that side of the pond.

 

The one with Eguchi Aimi rumoured to join is it? Seem plausible since currently she quite inactive in sosial media.

 

I don't know why people are disagreeing or disliking your post since it's pretty much all true. The level of covid deaths in the UK and Ireland has barely moved during the winter while cases have gone way up, indicating as you said a milder less lethal form of the disease. Omicron seems to be barely more than a mild cold/flu for most people (I have seen delta eff people up so it's good that variant is almost disappeared).

I think some people have become addicted to authoritarianism over the last two years, they have come to want the state to order them how to live their lives and seem to resent freedom of choice. The expansion of state power has also been unprecedented with some "liberal" countries seeming to think that being more like the CCP is good.

Vaccination and natural immunity are the way to deal with Omicron, not lockdowns or other authoritarian measures.

 

Next question.

 

Ass Ace

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I found out that AKB48 Battle Festival is also available on PC, through DMM game service.
It may require some tricks from oversea though.
http://pc.akb48battlefes.jp/

 

Snippets from the Yokohama Fresh Concert and Eito Concerts


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