Japan to lower COVID-19 to flu status, further easing rules

abc ^ | 1-19-23 | MARI YAMAGUCHI

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19 to the equivalent of seasonal influenza in the spring, a move that would further relax mask wearing and other preventive measures as the country seeks to return to normalcy.

Kishida said he has instructed experts and government officials to discuss the details on lowering COVID-19's status. A change would also remove self-isolation rules and other anti-virus requirements and allow COVID-19 patients to seek treatment at any hospital instead of only specialized facilities.

“In order to return to our ordinary daily life in Japan while pursuing measures to adapt to living with the coronavirus, we will study concrete measures to gradually move on to a next step," Kishida said.

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scam revealed.

[House Atreides]

It’s just the flu, Bro.

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“The move, however, comes as Japan faces widespread infections and record levels of deaths in what is considered its eighth wave of outbreak since the pandemic began three years ago.”

Those fauci shots really worked./s

[struggle]

Yeah, there is an undercurrent of distrust about the vaccines happening in Japan almost to the level of America. The mass media isn't covering it, but all my wife's friends are either regretting they took the vaxx or glad they didn't take the vaxx and it's just a matter of a mainstream voice acknowledging it now.

If the overton window shifts quickly, these pharma and government people are going to feel a world of pain.

[9YearLurker]

Instructing bureaucrats to discuss something being done in the future still leaves plenty of time for some sort of official emergency response to something to be launched or continued.

[OHPatriot]

I read just those words somewhere else before. Just can’t recall. /s

[Sicon]

So they finally decided to call it what it actually is? Well, better late than never, I guess.

[SaxxonWoods]

The virus has mutated enough to weaken significantly. Some predicted this early on, including a bio-scientist relative of mine who works for a Venture Capital company that invests in new drug development.

[GOPJ]

Artificial viruses like COVID and AIDS deteriorate quickly over time...

[kagnew]

“scam revealed.”

I’ve said that from the beginning, that Covid-19 was a hopped up FLU.