Still getting people in my comments insisting that Japan must be hiding tens of thousands of new cases, because the decline in the official numbers doesn't match their expectations of how outbreaks happen and are contained. But the decline is real, not an artifact of testing.https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1259778325410508800 …
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You'd think the example of an elderly society that did very little to contain an outbreak and got it under control would attract more attention. Either what they did was extraordinarily effective (masks? cluster chasing?) or there's another factor at work, or both those things.
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How did Japan, a country of 126 million, start to see a sharp rise in infections, including community spread in major cities, do very little, and then end up with fewer official coronavirus deaths than Maryland? How did Iraq do it? Why did Portugal fare so much better than Spain?
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Just on a personal level, I see lots of elderly people out and about in the world. I'm the youngest guy on my street in Kyoto by about 40 years and the neighbors seem undeterred from going out. There was definitely high concern about Japanese care homes, especially in late March
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