Posted on 05/23/2020 3:58:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Crushingly crowded public transport. The world's oldest population. A huge outbreak on a cruise ship. A state of emergency without penalties. It sounded like a recipe for a coronavirus catastrophe, and there were fears among public health experts that Japan could become the next Italy or New York. But it hasn't happened. The country hasn't exactly escaped unscathed. About 800 people have died and more than 16,000 have been infected in a country of 126 million...
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
Cleanliness. For real. Amazing, but NYC will never try it.
More gibberish from Non-Essential Media (nem) down under.
Japan has the toughest immigration protocols in the world. As I visitor in 2016 I was subjected to fingerprinting, temperature screening, and retinal screening along with the usual passport screening.
Japan knows how to effectively manage their country. And the people have a cleanliness standard that puts all other countries of the world to shame.
Thus it is not surprising at all that Japan has not had a major issue with covid.
That World Meter chart is wrong. MO has had 670 deaths.
Hmm. Good points. Do Italians in parts of Italy other than the north eat more fish, shellfish, and mushrooms than those in the Milan area?
You get a lollypop.
A follow-up: How many early U.S. deaths were Chinese nationals, students or otherwise?
I’d lay odds on “zero”.
See post #34!Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old farts life, it's worth it.
“Also why didnt Seoul get a huge outbreak after South Korea was one of the hardest hit countries in the beginning? Ditto for Rome.”
The areas in Korea and Italy that got hit hard are the areas with most foreigners including Chinese from China.
New York same with Italy and Europe and Iran/Middle East added in to the mix.
Yup. over 1/2 the deaths in this country are from nursing homes and most of those deliberately caused by criminal acts of governors
Murder most foul.
Chronic disease, especially associated with morbid obesity is a common factor in Coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths. Not everyone in a Nursing Home dies. For example, a Nursing Home in Albany GA has 5 or 10 deaths. But why did the vast majority not die? Check out their co-morbidities. (also check out how many people died in that nursing home in March and April 2019 and 2018. It was less than i 2020, but not by much?)
Are the Japanese Obese (other than sumo wrestlers)? What factors do most Japanese share with the many elderly in other parts of the world that are not killed by coronavirus?
We can’t look at per capita when the virus targets a very small slice of each population, and not the entire population.
We are not all in this together. The elderly in nursing homes and assisted living centers, those with corbidities are the target.
Half the dead are from government mandated nursing home patients.
A Tucson radio talkshow host said that the majority of Arizona’s ~700 deaths were in nursing homes and on Indian reservations. (American Indians exhibit the same poor health as many American blacks.) If you subtract those two groups, deaths in Arizona are just over 100.
The Japanese are extremely clean...heck, their fans at sporting events clean up after themselves after the game. Also, in terms of deaths per capita, the UK, Spain, and Belgium are all worse than even Italy. Brazil has a huge problem right now and, with their large barrios it can become a near disaster in the next few days. Also, Mexico is a sleeping giant. They’ve only tested 200,000 people in a country of 128 million. Expect Mexico to explode with cases within the next month.
I would expect some ethnic populations are more susceptible to Covid-19. Maybe it's too early for medical researches to figure this out.
They are healthier, cleaner and didn’t inflate their numbers. Mystery solved.
Those are people who have been tested. The number of those infected is probably much higher. Their symptoms just haven't been serious enough for them to get themselves tested.
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