Completely agree that Japan has done better. Putting some numbers on it: UK 21,461,556 cases, 313,247 cases/1M, 2,468 deaths/1M, 68,513,217 Pop Japan

Completely agree that Japan has done better. Putting some numbers on it: UK 21,461,556 cases, 313,247 cases/1M, 2,468 deaths/1M, 68,513,217 Pop Japan 6,832,377 cases, 54,313 cases/1M, 226 deaths/1M, 125,795,510 Pop So its the deaths per million that is 1/10th (2,000+ vs 200+), while the cases per million are more like 1/6. (data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)