Talk:Countermeasures/@comment-25958024-20150113210916/@comment-3185460-20150210212604

Takabayashi died immediately when he say's Mei's name out loud. It seems Sanae only died after she was told to ignore Misaki yet she didn't. Reiko could do whatever she pleased on account of being the Other - I don't think the curse would kill its own conduit. My impression is that as long as you are in town you (and your family to the 2nd degree) have to keep up the Shunning. Out of school interactions are probably the main reason why this countermeasure is so damn unreliable in the first place.

I doubt that they would normally select a person who has a family member in the same school because the hightened risk that the other person would break the Shunning. Sakakibara was a special case because they were doing that out of desperation