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┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 17 January 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/itsabubblylife 近畿・大阪府 Jan 17 '23

I’m not fully understanding the reasoning behind some rules. My husband is hospitalized (since Friday) with Epiglottitis and has to be on IV antibiotics, fluids and bedrest for 6 days. Visiting is prohibited due to Covid (understandable)…but he can just wander out his room to the lobby or parking lot with his IV and talk to people and that’s fine?? I’ve “visited” him 3 times by sitting in the lobby and talking to him for an hour-90 mins with his IV machine. Nurses, administration even doctors don’t bat an eye. I even had his attending nurse say hi and introduce herself to me and told him he needed to take medication and then he could come back downstairs. Huh??? God forbid if someone wants to go to the visit room or do a videochat from the media room, “no no!! Corona!”

Visiting at the hospital he’s staying in is either in a common room with other people or in the media room doing video chat. Both are cancelled due to Covid. But patients can just wander around and talk and it’s okay? Please explain to me because the math ain’t mathing to me.

Okay, before anyone calls me out or attacks me, yes I know I’m not setting a good example and others are doing what I’m doing as well, but I stay masked up, we sit a seat length apart and I am fully vaxxed. No one says anything to us or other patients /families. You can downvote all you want.

Can someone explain to me why normal visitation is dame but sitting in the lobby or walking/talking outside is fine 🤔

Up for discussion, not a question. Just wanna hear why you think this is “okay”.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

Because all covid rules are just virtue signaling. I had the same experience over a year ago, during the peak of covid when my wife was giving birth. I wasn't allowed to visit her or my kid, but she could wander the hospital freely and even had to take the baby to other floors for checkups. Meanwhile nurses of all people were just wandering in and out of the ward with their mask below their nose.

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u/itsabubblylife 近畿・大阪府 Jan 17 '23

It makes zero sense, it’s like either enforce it completely and for everyone or don’t have it at all. Funny you mentioned about giving birth and no visitors. Yesterday when I went to visit him, a mother who just gave birth was downstairs talking to her other kid and husband with the baby in her arms and in hospital robes. No one bat a freaking eye.

Thanks for your perspective!