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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Replying to @Pinboard @JapanIntercult
We did a lot, very fast. I have barely left the house since mid February. When we do leave it is with a mask and lots of hand sanitizer.
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Agree, I don't think "very little" is a fair characterization. Companies were starting to ban employees from attending events and meetings, and lots of things started to be cancelled in late February. And there was the early closing of schools, significant.
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Replying to @JapanIntercult @discokitten
You can't really refer to the early closing of schools without also bringing up the *opening* of schools and universities on 1 April.
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Replying to @Pinboard @discokitten
Lots of universities did not open on April 1. In fact probably most did not. Ministry of Education recommended that universities go to remote instruction and I believe the majority did so.
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I defer to your knowledge on this. I know that in Kyoto, nearly all the schools opened, and public transit was full of schoolkids that week.
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Replying to @Pinboard @JapanIntercult
My kids have not had school for 11 weeks now - in Tokyo. No sign of them going back any time soon.
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