Posted on 10/27/2020 7:41:26 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Why haven't more people in Japan died from Covid-19? It is a macabre question that has spawned dozens of theories, from Japanese manners to claims that the Japanese have superior immunity.
Japan does not have the lowest death rate for Covid-19 - in the region, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam can all boast lower mortality.
But in the early part of 2020, Japan saw fewer deaths than average. This is despite the fact that in April, Tokyo saw about 1,000 "excess deaths' - perhaps due to Covid. Yet, for the year as a whole, it is possible that overall deaths will be down on 2019.
This is particularly striking because Japan has many of the conditions that make it vulnerable to Covid-19, but it never adopted the energetic approach to tackling the virus that some of its neighbours did...
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One idea is that previous exposure to a similar virus rendered Japanese immune or at least likely to just get mildly ill.
Ivermectin
Higher Iodine levels (from seaweed) and Vitamin K2-MK7 level (from natto), coupled with higher Omega-3s (from sashimi and sushi), every day.
Prior exposure to coronavirus of any kind (and there are many) likely grants a person some level of immunity or defense.
This is the most likely explanation. Asia is where these viruses have come from and they seem to be suffering the least fatalities so there appears to be something to this idea.
Also, Japan isn’t labeling nearly 1/4 of its total COVID count from heart attacks, like we do. Take out car deaths, suicides, and countless others, throw in assumed COVID penetration that was not formally tested, and we wind up much closer to Japan’e numbers, because they don’t count in stupid ways.
They don’t have the obesity problem we do.
The Japanese are skinny people. No one is fat except for Sumo Wrestlers.
It isn’t mysterious. Look at all of east Asia.
From early on, and is being studied, is genetic predisposition and when groups were last in Asia by country. East Asians coevolved with similar viruses and are least vulnerable overall because the genetically vulnerable died centuries ago. Next are central Asians. Turks and Slavs who left Asia 1000-1500 years ago are more vulnerable. Then comes Germans and Huns who left Asia 1500-2000 years ago. More vulnerable still are the Celts and Romance who left Asia 2500-5000 years ago. The most vulnerable are Amerindians who left Asia 12000 years ago, and the African diaspora that was never there (excluding Africans themselves due to an extremely young demographic, slow penetration into remote areas, lack of testing and possibly ubiquitous hydroxychloroquine usage due to endemic malaria). The rates per million of cases and deaths in countries follow a straight line up, east to west, no matter what anybody did.
Maybe they only count people who died OF Covid-19 and not all those who died WITH it.
They define covid-related death differently, thus minimizing the bias of overcounting.
They aren’t fat and Covid isn’t political there.
and why hasn’t it devastated the 3rd world countries.
I spent a month in Tokyo at the beginning of this year and I believe one factor is how extremely hygienic those people are.
I don’t mean to be crude, but one way that CoVid-19 spreads is through fecal matter. Anyone who has ever used a Japanese toilet, with its multiple nozzles spraying water and numerous controls, will realize that there probably isn’t a single particle of unaccounted-for fecal matter in that entire nation.
Maybe it’s also because they don’t count every heart attack, auto accident, cancer case or flu death as COVID.
what happened to honey buckets?
RE: Ivermectin
Where’s the source report for this? Is it widely used in Japan?
How much corn syrup is in their diet? I’m betting they don’t eat a lot of processed foods either.
Both things are hard on the immune system.
They eat fish and vegetables along with low diabetes
It was the Japanese who discover it and its effectiveness against viruses as well as parasites.
No Chinese students?
Godzilla scared the virus off?
Paid an early ransom?
who knows.
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