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Even a cursory google search is showing that many things in Japan are/were closed: https://jw-webmagazine.com/places-in-tokyo-closed-due-to-the-novel-coronaviru
by tensor 6y ago
Even a cursory google search is showing that many things in Japan are/were closed: https://jw-webmagazine.com/places-in-tokyo-closed-due-to-the-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/ https://jw-webmagazine.com/places-in-tokyo-closed-due-to-the...
This article is feeling like American propaganda trying to justify giving up on response measures in the US. The most charitable interpretation is that it's factually incorrect in a broad way.
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoYes, the headline was rather shocking to me! What a misleading article, it's very disappointing. I know folks in Japan and life is anything but normal there. They didn't need a "lockdown" because of Japan's strong culture of conformity, and people take recommended precautions seriously. Restaurants closed, schools closed, parks empty, everyone wearing masks, lots of social distancing. The scale of the public's participation vastly exceeds that of the west -- there are little to no "nay-sayers" or people ignoring the rules. It makes a pretty big difference, evidently. Anyone speculating that "Japan did less than the West and had an easier time how bizarre" is missing the forest for the trees.
- anonymoushn 6y agoWe don't have a lockdown because it's unconstitutional. The situation where there's no lockdown and non-essential businesses that defect against society by remaining open are financially rewarded is motivating talk of fixing the constitution to allow lockdowns.