{"id":317,"date":"2020-07-26T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=317"},"modified":"2020-11-09T02:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:48:02","slug":"got-any-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Got any good news?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Question:<\/strong> Got any good news?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer: <\/strong>Happy Sunday! Here are two pieces of news that I really enjoyed, but I\u2019m a little late to the party in sharing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Earlier this month, Japan\u2019s Fuji-Q Highland amusement park reopened<\/a> with a new request for visitors riding roller coasters \u2014 \u201cPlease scream inside your heart.\u201d This request is to limit the virus transmission since screaming and loud talking may increase respiratory droplet spread. And just like that, a meme was born along with calls to make this the new motto for 2020 (Figure 1<\/strong>).<\/li>
  2. In addition to giving us our 2020 motto, Japan has also given us our 2020 mascot, Amabie\u2019 (pronounced a-ma-bee-ay) (Figures 2 <\/strong>and 3)<\/strong>. As described in this recent article from JAMA, <\/em>\u201cAmabi\u00e9 \u2014 A Japanese Symbol of the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a>,\u201d Amabie\u2019 is \u201ca legendary mermaid-like creature who is said to emerge from the sea to prophesize good harvests and epidemics.\u201d She originally gained attention in 1846 after the local newspaper shared the story and sketch (Figure 2<\/strong>) from an unnamed officer who reportedly went to the seaside to explore a strange light. What he found there was a mermaid-like creature who told him, \u201cI live in the sea. My name is Amabi\u00e9. Good harvest will continue for six years. At the same time disease will spread. Draw me and show me to the people as soon as possible,\u201d before submerging. According to the JAMA <\/em>article, which is a really enjoyable read, Amabie\u2019 has been trending in Japan as a popular symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic since mid-March. In response, \u201cJapan\u2019s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has leveraged the character\u2019s popularity to raise awareness about the importance of staying home and physical distancing for prevention of infection, in line with other efforts to recruit manga and anime characters to advance public health messaging\u2026 Amabi\u00e9 is also a feature character in the official national coronavirus contact tracing app released June 19, 2020.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Figure 1. Please Scream Inside Your Heart<\/strong> (from Twitter<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Figure 2. Original Drawing of Amabie\u2019 , 1846 <\/strong>(from JAMA<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Figure 3. Recent Depictions of Amabie\u2019 <\/strong>(from JAMA<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Question: Got any good news? Answer: Happy Sunday! Here are two pieces of news that I really enjoyed, but I\u2019m a little late to the party in sharing: Earlier this month, Japan\u2019s Fuji-Q Highland amusement park reopened with a new request for visitors riding roller coasters \u2014 \u201cPlease scream inside your heart.\u201d This request is to limit the virus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","tag-communication","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/July-26.png?fit=718%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}