If it was the state of emergency that helped reduce spread, you'd expect to see that delayed by a week or more. And as you saw in press reports, the changes in behavior were not dramatic; very many people were not able to work from home; night life in Tokyo went on.
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School even restarted during this period! The reason people were spooked in the health care system is that there was real community spread in Kobe, Osaka and Tokyo. The fact that this abated with only mild intervention, even as people continued to socialize, is the mystery.
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I arrived in Tokyo from California on March 25th. But it wasn’t my fault cases started increasing that day. I’m fairly certain.
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