Japan reports 107,186 new coronavirus cases

Is it really necessary to report on twenty hospitalized people every day against a population of 125 million?

How about the 111 dead bit?

I have a simple solution to reading & commenting on news that you feel is irrelevant. Wanna hear it?

Masked and vaxxed to the max.

Yet huge numbers. Again.

All this when globally it seems every other nation has moved on. Long ago.

Mask up and Vax up, yet nothing much has changed, still infection and transmission of the virus. Most of the civilized world has caught on and subsequently moved on, but not Japan.

Not a good time of the year to be heading down this slippery slope. How many more Covid waves must Japan endure before the government comes up with a different approach and reality based solution? One life to live...

Gaijin in Japan love to look at other countries as some kind of model for dealing with Covid. Yet very few countries have fared better than Japan and even now most are in exactly the same position. With 111 deaths in Japan today that is right on par with the US considering per capita. But yet overall Covid deaths in the US are over 1 million while Japan is maybe 60k. We’ve had no real lockdowns here and I’ve been able to live same as always with a few safety precautions. In my mind, we’ve coped better than almost all countries, and even though Japan continues to stumble through it, there’s no where else I’d rather be.

Infection rate probably similar elsewhere in the developed world. Japan just still reporting it. Give up commenting in clicking on the link if you don't want to know.

Border is open. Restaurants are open. WFH is an acronym of the past.

Really don't see what all the fuss is about. We all know it's out there, and we're living with it.

What 'plan' would you want Japan to come up with to stem it? What 'reality based solution' (what kind of language is that anyway) do you want them to come up with?

To move on is to stop reporting it and suggesting it's still something to fear and be alarmist about. It's not helpful to anyone except those who crave the hysteria. Of which, the pandemic has shown us there are many. And sadly the fear allowed so many things that with hindsight were wrong and harmful to take precedence.

How does Japan move on?

Maybe end all meaningless mitigations that do nothing and were long since removed elsewhere - from temp checks (because you somehow don't know if you are running a fever or not, and cheap electronic thermometers are always reliable and accurate anyway) to plastic divider screens in restaurants (long since they were shown to potentially increase risk by limiting natural airflow), the sanitizing obsession and irritations that come with that - not just inconveniences, to enforced masking - which brings with it many harms that are not talked about here, not just the waste and plastic pollution, but social, emotional and language development, particularly in elementary children and teens. It's criminal that this has continued now for so long. For what?

The border controls/restrictions were something that were never justified beyond late 2021 (and hardly justified before). No one would disagree with that I'm sure. And at it's heart was xenophobia and the fear of the dirty foreigner sadly.

Japan did some things right in the early days. No not masking. Which hasn't worked. Clearly. But keeping society relatively open despite some nonsensical stuff like making businesses close early as covid only comes out after 9pm.

But it's looking silly now and has for the last year or so.

It's not 2020 or early 2021 anymore. Covid deaths globally are at lowest levels since it began. Winter is kicking in in the UK and cases are falling. Hospitals are fine but for dealing with all the fallout that lockdowns and missed screenings for cancer caused.

We don't keep running records and daily fatality numbers for suicides or cancer deaths or deaths from cardiovascular disease or flu or car accidents.

They would raise a few eyebrows above the Uniqlo cloths masks I'm sure.

Move on.

Looks like I’m double masking from today I ain’t gonna catch Covid again, no way. Long Covid was the worst for me and completely wrecked my life. Luckily I’m very slowly getting better.