Japan didn’t follow the rest of the world and certainly never followed the WHO’s recommendations related to COVID. This from thegatewaypundit.com.
Most of the coverage we provided during Japan’s bungled turn hosting the Olympics this summer dealt with the nation’s spiraling COVID infection rates and lagging mass vaccination efforts.
However, while the Japanese limited the in-person attendance of the actual games, the lockdowns and restrictions the government imposed were fairly mild.
People were still allowed to go out to bars and restaurants, albeit with modest capacity limits and the streets were far from empty.
The Associated Press described the measures as a series of “relatively toothless states of emergency.”
That makes this week’s news all the more puzzling to some medical professionals. The COVID crisis across Japan, and particularly in Tokyo, has all but evaporated. In less than two months, Tokyo has gone from reporting more than 6,000 new cases per day to less than 100 this week. And not even the government can explain why.
Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo, with caseloads in the densely populated capital now routinely below 100, an 11-month low.
Japan, unlike other places in Europe and Asia, has never had anything close to a lockdown, just a series of relatively toothless states of emergency.
This may not be as much of a “mystery” as the Japanese Health Ministry is making it out to be.
Part of the decline is no doubt attributable to the country’s accelerated vaccination push.
While it started off very slowly, they’ve now surged to the point where 70% of the population has received the shots. Others point to the fact that the Japanese were very accustomed to wearing face masks in public even before the pandemic began.
Another factor is that the people in Japan who have not taken the vaccine have possibly already had the China coronavirus.
But some readers reminded us that we reported in early September that Japan doctors were recommending the use of Ivermectin at that time. Since then the number of new cases of COVID is way down. This additional information comes from an ‘Update’ at thegatewaypundit.com.
Whatever the reason, by not shutting down their economy, Japan is now stepping out of this period in world history with less impact to its people and economy than most other nations, particularly the U.S.
Also noteworthy vaccine mandates were not necessary, widespread removal from employment and schools was not necessary, and the forced shut down of tens of thousands of small businesses was not necessary.
This, of course, begs the question, Did America respond to the COVID pandemic in an altogether incorrect manner? And, if so, how could American leadership have been so wrong?
