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I'm skeptical of the WSJ, not that there aren't good points here but that there's some missing context. Reuters on hospital stress in Japan, where ICU beds per

I'm skeptical of the WSJ, not that there aren't good points here but that there's some missing context. Reuters on hospital stress in Japan, where ICU beds per capita are fewer and more spread out geographically than in Europe: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-icu-idUSKCN22A03L https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-... WaPo on how Japan's societal norms are a double-edged sword: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-coronavirus-bars-nightclubs-clusters/2020/04/27/190e2f12-84d1-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-coro... Mainichi on how Japan is underperforming its targets based on location data, and the expected struggles with upcoming May holidays: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2a/00m/0na/002000c https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2a/00m/0na/00... Mainichi on Abe expanding the scope of its foreign entry bans — a compulsory measure, just not on people already in Japan: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2g/00m/0na/060000c https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2g/00m/0na/06... Mainichi on how the national government underestimated both demand and production of masks: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2a/00m/0na/005000c https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2a/00m/0na/00... Mainichi on how despite the lack of compulsory domestic closures, restaurant demand is still tanking by up to 80 percent: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2a/00m/0na/005000c https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200427/p2a/00m/0na/00...

kalleboo 7y ago
> Mainichi on how Japan is underperforming its targets based on location data, and the expected struggles with upcoming May holidays At least the important hotspots (Tokyo, Osaka, etc) have reached their 80% targets. I live in a prefecture that had among the lowest reduction, but that's understandable because we have no cases. It's hard to convince people to stay home in order not to catch something that's not demonstrably going around. But more importantly, they have closed malls, people haven't been going to bars/restaurants so they have closed just due to staffing costs, etc. Hopefully the fact that there's just nothing to do here will keep people from traveling here over the Golden Week holiday.

kalleboo 7y ago

> Mainichi on how Japan is underperforming its targets based on location data, and the expected struggles with upcoming May holidays At least the important hotspots (Tokyo, Osaka, etc) have reached their 80% targets. I live in a prefecture that had among the lowest reduction, but that's understandable because we have no cases. It's hard to convince people to stay home in order not to catch something that's not demonstrably going around. But more importantly, they have closed malls, people haven't been going to bars/restaurants so they have closed just due to staffing costs, etc. Hopefully the fact that there's just nothing to do here will keep people from traveling here over the Golden Week holiday.