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Japan has several advantages, including relative independence from the internet (they keep pushing paper like it was the 1990s in business settings), disaster p

Japan has several advantages, including relative independence from the internet (they keep pushing paper like it was the 1990s in business settings), disaster planning and well-trained civil protection policies and being an island nation. You might not be off too far.

jefurii 5y ago
Countries like Japan and Taiwan have cultures of cooperation and listening to authorities during normal times that serve to protect the entire society in times of crisis. Americans' individuality doesn't work as well as we thought even for protecting individuals.
- yostrovs 5y ago
  American individuality works well for inventing vaccines though. Any covid vaccines that have come out of Japan or Taiwan? Japan has a substantial pharmaceutical industry.
  - DocTomoe 5y ago
    Given that the majority of vaccines were invented in less-individualistic countries (including not one, but two that were developed in China, the first one from nonindividualistic Russia, and the more innovative ones coming from non-quite-as-individualistic Europe with Germany's Biontech-Pfizer or the british-swedish Astrazeneca), that is not a good argument.
    - yostrovs 5y ago
      The Chinese and Russian vaccine use well established technologies, nothing particularly new. There's no mRNA vaccines developed in China or Russia or Japan or Taiwan. There's also quite a bit of questioning the effectiveness of Russian and Chinese vaccines.
  - fomine3 5y ago
    Japan especially coldly treated vaccine development, due to historical and ongoing misunderstood issue. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-depends-on-overseas-vaccines-due-to-30-years-of-inaction https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-depends-... HPV vaccine case: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-hpv-vaccine-study-idUSKBN2050K9 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-hpv-vaccine-study-i...

jefurii 5y ago

Countries like Japan and Taiwan have cultures of cooperation and listening to authorities during normal times that serve to protect the entire society in times of crisis. Americans' individuality doesn't work as well as we thought even for protecting individuals.

yostrovs 5y ago
American individuality works well for inventing vaccines though. Any covid vaccines that have come out of Japan or Taiwan? Japan has a substantial pharmaceutical industry.
- DocTomoe 5y ago
  Given that the majority of vaccines were invented in less-individualistic countries (including not one, but two that were developed in China, the first one from nonindividualistic Russia, and the more innovative ones coming from non-quite-as-individualistic Europe with Germany's Biontech-Pfizer or the british-swedish Astrazeneca), that is not a good argument.
  - yostrovs 5y ago
    The Chinese and Russian vaccine use well established technologies, nothing particularly new. There's no mRNA vaccines developed in China or Russia or Japan or Taiwan. There's also quite a bit of questioning the effectiveness of Russian and Chinese vaccines.
- fomine3 5y ago
  Japan especially coldly treated vaccine development, due to historical and ongoing misunderstood issue. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-depends-on-overseas-vaccines-due-to-30-years-of-inaction https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-depends-... HPV vaccine case: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-hpv-vaccine-study-idUSKBN2050K9 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-hpv-vaccine-study-i...