> You cannot make any deductions from Japan. It is it's own thing. The things that works there may not work elsewhere. People said exactly the same about Japa

> You cannot make any deductions from Japan. It is it's own thing. The things that works there may not work elsewhere. People said exactly the same about Japan during COVID ... "oh no, you can't possibly make deductions from Japan" they said. What happened ? Let's take the UK as an example. Japan, a country with: - Double the population of the UK - Living and working in significantly higher density than the UK Japan 78,000 total deaths (602 per million) vs UK total 232,000 deaths (3,400 per million) Japan 270,000 cumulative cases per million, UK 368,000 cumulative cases per million Why do I cite the UK in particular ? Because the government was well documented to be operating on a basis of British exceptionalism, i.e. the same mindset as you have, "what can we possibly learn from other countries, it won't work here because we're better/different/$insert_word_of_your_choice than them"