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There is no way Japan's faux-success is due solely or even dominantly to asymptomatic cases, they had to be turning a blind eye to symptomatic ones as well and
by seemslegit 7y ago
There is no way Japan's faux-success is due solely or even dominantly to asymptomatic cases, they had to be turning a blind eye to symptomatic ones as well and attributing them to pneumonia, flu etc.
The fact that the reported rates began rising only after the Tokyo Olympics were announced cancelled is almost a USSR-era farce.
Japan has a leading hospital-bed-per-capita capacity in the OECD which could help them conceal this but I believe if occupancy of those beds was graphed for the last two months we'd see a curve indicating an epidemic comparable with US and Europe.
- twblalock 7y agoThen where are the overwhelmed hospitals? Where are the bodies?
- seemslegit 7y agoThey're not overwhelmed yet because they have capacity (NYC hospitals are struggling but are not over capacity either), deaths happen all the time especially in a country with aging population like Japan and are just not counted as covid19, like the author says it will probably be visible in excess deaths statistics once those are published.