[CheshireTheCat]

I would be curious to know how much green tea the average Japanese person consumes. Quercetin is a zinc ionophore found in good quantities in green tea.

[KC_Lion]

For your interest.

[dfwgator]

Also why didn’t Seoul get a huge outbreak after South Korea was one of the hardest hit countries in the beginning? Ditto for Rome.

[Jeff Chandler]

Quercetin is a zinc ionophore

I have a bottle of Quercitin in my medicine cabinet -- just in case.

[BenLurkin]

The Wuhan flu has taken a terrible toll in the USA, but is it anywhere nearly as bad per capita as was the effects of the Chinese virus in Italy?

[Tailback]

The Japanese are impeccable about cleanliness

[LilFarmer]

Many people won’t want to hear this, but in Japan, Singapore and S. Korea, people wear masks.

A Lesson from Japan’s Fight against Coronavirus: Masks Help

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-japan-shows-masks-help-slow-spread-covid-19/

[Black Agnes]

They also consume an a@@load of iodine.

Iodine is antiviral.

[Bonemaker]

Japanese are the Germans of Asia...brilliant engineers, scientists, precision manufacturing, medicine, chemists etc.

[PA Engineer]

There is no mystery. Black Pigeon Speaks videos cover this including walking Tokyo at night.

The Japanese do not shake hands, wear masks so as no to infect others (normal flu season) and are meticulous about distancing.

The Japanese government stated they had no legal grounds to shut down the country. The Japanese people individually distanced themselves and limited urban travel. Tokyo has a population of 37,393,129. Further, the Japanese are meticulous about (probably exceptions) hygiene and cleanliness. That includes sidewalks, roads, handrails and other public accommodations.

In one of the videos he showed a closed "smoking" station. The Japanese smokers stood outside it, distanced themselves and smoked their cigarettes. The station was closed due to COVID. There was not a single ash or butt on the ground.

Their culture is the exact opposite of those with hot zones.

[fhayek]

Vitamin D. Black skin does not absorb vitamin D from sunlight very well, hence the overrepresentation of blacks coming down with Coronavirus. No, its not racism. (Not sure how well orange skin perform...). And if you ask me why the Chinese had so much more incidence of the disease than Japan did, I will tell you...

I don't know.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Interesting article.

Speculation. An island with a homogenous population that already wears masks and washes their hands.

5.56mm

[SmokingJoe]

Well the Japanese didn't have at least 5 deep blue state governors, deliberately sending coronavirus patients to old folks nursing homes to infect and kill them, just for political reasons like Cuomo, Murphy. Wolf etc did.

[Ancesthntr]

ECGC is , AFAIK, the zinc ionophore in green tea. Green tea also makes it more difficult for any virus to attach to cells, so it packs a double anti-viral whammy.

[The Sentient Sheep]

Maybe the Japanese have good immune systems, they walk a lot and eat good. It’s a flu not ebola.

[knarf]

Japan is a closed society ... very few "foreigners" and mixed marriages.

Their culture is not oppressive (to them) and is intact.

They have a fairly keen sense of respect and cleanliness.

I think the countries that have more "infection" problems are the ones that have a lot of different people .... the US SHOULD be more "diseased" than others, but to our advantage, we've been inoculating and USDA (and others) interfering in most all our food production and imports.

[VanShuyten]

I just watched NHK news, and Tokyo had TWO Wuflu deaths yesterday.

We’re still talking about plateauing here in the DC area, maybe declining a little, and Tokyo is bottoming out.

[SFConservative]

They eat a lot of fish: vitamin D rich. They eat seaweed: fairly high in zinc. Also, a relatively low rate of testing, so asymptomatic and mild cases may never be recorded when people shrug them off due to possible diet-aided resistance. And when told to wear masks, they are very obedient and wear masks.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That’s what I was thinking. Lots of green tea, lots of shellfish and other foods rich in zinc. Their food is their medicine.

[Dave Wright]

1. The don’t warehouse their elderly and have a long tradition of keeping their elders in the family home.
2. Their diet contains shellfish, mushrooms, green vegetables, and beef that contain high levels of zinc.
3. They have a lower incidence of diabetes and obesity.
4. Salmon, soy, kale, mushrooms, and oysters are also good sources of vitamin D which many Americans are deficient in. Vitamin D along with zinc has been cited as important nutrients for a strong immune system.

[Vermont Lt]

The Japanese are FAR more compliant to social distancing and mask wearing. And hygiene.

This is both a cultural thing and the result of a SARS scare several years ago.

The US is not compliant. And, generally speaking, our hygiene sucks.