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I live in Tokyo, and I just want to point out that the voluntary compliance with the "request" to limit how much you go out appears to be better than the compli
by veidr 6y ago
I live in Tokyo, and I just want to point out that the voluntary compliance with the "request" to limit how much you go out appears to be better than the compliance with legally mandatory lockdown in California, which itself is far better than most other states in the US.
Yes, "businesses from restaurants to hairdressers stayed open", but most of them that I've ever used living here closed. Almost none of our restaurants (meaning the ones we used pre-COVID19) are open, or only do takeout. None of the places my kids have ever gotten their hair cut are open.
So I think this article might be placing too much emphasis on what the government mandated, and not enough on what people and businesses actually are doing.
I was watching TV news and they were naming and shaming pachinko slot-machine parlours that refused to close — and it was like 4 of them.
- taeric 6y agoMy guess is you are offer estimating how bad the compliance is in the US. Especially if you are going by pictures. Not to say that it has been perfect. But likely much better than you seem to imply here.
- svat 6y agoWe have some data: looking at Google Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports, here are the numbers for (Japan, California, US) compared to baseline: Retail & recreation: (-40%, -47%, -30%) Grocery & pharmacy: (-12%, -7%, -3%) Parks: (-52%, -14%, +32%) (yes that's a positive sign!) Transit stations: (-55%, -41%, -34%) Workplaces: (-23%, -27%, -24%) Residential: (+14%, +12%, +9%) So this data more or less seems to confirm what you said, though with obvious caveats (e.g. looking at say county-level may overturn some of this: compliance in Tokyo may be less than in San Francisco county and about as good as Santa Clara county, along some dimensions).