Posted on 10/18/2021 8:37:08 AM PDT by FryingPan101
“They are too proud to use medical resources unnecessarily”
Japanese go to the doctor about three times as often as Americans.
No, not close. Vaccine uptake is very high in Japan - almost 70% have received at least one shot.
Maybe it just ran its course.
Unrelated — LOL at the chattering class atwitter about more disease as summer winds down. “More reports of disase, no explanation!” Part of the usual cycle.
I’m happy for Japan but I keep seeing something over and over that doesn’t make sense. The claim of a 99.7% survival rate.
Based on what? Based on case numbers that no one trusts and death numbers that include motorcycle accidents or comorbidities.
That 99.7% number is based on garbage in because that’s all we have, garbage numbers.
I'm not sure about the use of Ivermectin. My stepdaughter has a couple of nurse friends and at least in Shizuoka and Fujinomiya, there does not seem to be much talk about Ivermectin in the news or discussed at clinics, That may be different in the Tokyo area and surrounding cities.
Probably also do not use government dollars to pay people to pretend there’s a “pandemic”
Winner.
It would be interesting to know the percentage of the vaccinated that had CV19 prior to the jab.
Well, the head of their main medical council did endorse prophylactic ivermectin.
Anecdotally, this seems correct. Of course they have a much more socialized medicine model. My stepdaughter needed a CT scan. Got it the next day at a major hospital. Same for other appointments - except for company mandated medical exam (scheduled 1-2 months in advance), she is able to get in to see someone in 3-5 days at most - even during the peak of their COVID-19 cases.
Imagine if the government fined a hospital $34k for each covid case ghey had? “Not a smidgeon of covid reported within 200 miles...”
https://dreddymd.com/2021/08/29/japanese-medical-association-tells-doctors-to-prescribe-ivermectin-for-covid/
"Nagao was asked by the TV anchor when patients should take Ivermectin if diagnosed with COVID-19. He replied: “The same day, I mean if you are infected today, you take it today… It is a medication that should be given for mildly ill patients. If you give it to hospital patients, it’s too late. This is also the case for the majority of drugs… So you have to give Ivermectin. I am asking our Prime Minister Suga to distribute this drug ‘made in Japan’ on a large scale in the country.”
He added that four pills should be distributed to everyone in the country, so that people can take them “as soon as you are infected.”"
Re: 15 - I wonder if there is also a specific genotype(s) that are more able to be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and not become infected?
Maybe they just got better, like pretty much everyone who gets it that isn't really old or really fat.
And Vitamin D3 along with it -- also accounts for their low incidence of MS.
Instead of admitting all comers and flying them all over the country, arriving passengers were expected to show a negative Covid test within 72 hours of being allowed on to an inbound flight, another such test on arrival, a party meeting them at the airport with a car (no public transit allowed) and an expectation to quarantine at home (including the driver and all members of the household) for two weeks.
I know this because my sister-in-law and nephew were stranded in the USA when the Covid lockdown started and did not get back into Japan until September of last year. My brother met them at the airport and the school for whom he works gave him the two weeks off with daily assignments to check-in on-line.
Japan has this odd idea of citizens and legal residents first, tourists and visitors second and illegals to the back of the line where they will remain until the first and second groups are served.
Both my brother and family and my daughter and family have earned permanent residency status by meeting the very high standards which Japan sets for people seeking such status.
They did start using ivermectin... it’s Japanese, you know.
Add in their strict immigration and visa admission policies. The former, immigration for permanent residency, is virtually non-existent for anyone not of Japanese ancestry or with a Japanese spouse. They’re no longer The Hermit Kingdom, but are still perhaps the most xenophobic and exclusionary society on Earth.
Two reasons for that-- diet and exercise. Most of their carbs come from rice. Bread is sold in short little loaves of 4 thick to 8 thin slices, no crusts or ends. Lots of protein rich foods like fish and greens like beans of seaweed.
Exercise is LOTS of walking, particularly when you live in big cities like Tokyo or Osaka. Home to nearest subway station averages about 1 Km and station to workplace about the same. So even if you are an office worker who sits all day, that is 1.2 miles of walking. Much more if you do sales calls and the like.
Not as many people in Japan who are overweight (besides sumo wrestlers). I wonder how many Japanese smoke when compared to Americans? You see people who are overweight and have a lung or heart condition - a dangerous situation and Covid makes it more dangerous.
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