Japan reports 50,107 new coronavirus cases

Vietnam is not reporting daily counts anymore. Waste of time. Most of Southeast Asia have already stopped reporting daily counts. They have moved on. Countries with a future have moved on. Japan? Is there even a future here?

Again, why report individual daily cases at this point. We don't do that for any other disease.

Many countries are only reporting actual hospitalised patients and ICU numbers. These are the metrics we should focus on. If those numbers are increasing dramatically then we should do something.

People in actual hospital beds, not anyone that's simply gone to the doctors nor someone staying in a hotel. Actually ill patients.

Unfortunately masks and the vaccines designed for the original omicron are not going to stop this omicron 4/5 wave. Unfortunately apparently is also a little more severe than the previous omicron 1/2. Japan will see new record highs. Already happening in many prefectures such as Ehime with new highs already a couple times this week.

The question is when will the quasi SOE's return and the closure of the bars and restaurants, public and sports events etc, plus of course the old favourites stricter border controls with testing and quarantine at the airport. This is the only way Japan knows how to deal with COVID yet we have not heard of their reintroduction. Reason, of course, because of the election. But that will be over on Sunday and the reins will be off.

Wait and see what happens soon after the election

Why Tokyo does not report the 3 times vaccinated ?

otherwise, it might not push as it wants toward the vaccination

BA4 and 5 are not more severe. Look at the data from Portugal and South Africa, who are already through their BA4/5 waves.

No conspiracy theory here …. The vaccines have proven to be safe and effective at drastically reducing your chances of getting a severe case! The naysaying anti everything minority want to keep pushing their patently false narrative that the drug companies said the vaccines will prevent infections. That simply is patently false information! The vaccines are working as advertised! And NO!!! Getting infected does not provide anyone with better protection or some mythical immunity! Furthermore, herd immunity is a dream being chased by the minority of highly irresponsible and dangerous minded people. 2 weeks ago the anti everything clan declared Covid over ! Then the hot weather drove most indoors…. Hence the rapid spread. Luckily, the vast majority of responsible people who get infected won’t be a major stress factor on the healthcare system. With nearly 200,000 people currently hospitalized, the healthcare workers need a break ! Get vaccinated or boosted! Stop making up excuses! It only hurts for a day or two. Mask up when necessary! Follow the 3 C’s! Keep safe people!

I do need to know this though …. Where can I buy those mask scientifically created for individual variants?

Here’s the latest info on “hospitalizations” from the gov website, published today:

7000 in hospital, 12,000 in hotels, 160,000 recuperating at HOME.

FIrst link at the top. Steven have your jwife translate.

forgot the link

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/newpage_00023.html

Weird, tho.

Most of the people in Japan wear masks everywhere (including themselves in the car), Covid shots have been administered to at least 80% of the population and there's hand sanitizers at the entrance of almost every business. Yet, we're entering the seventh wave.

I'm sick of skipping meeting friends and people I've lost contact over the last two and a half years.

Just gonna go on with life and hope I don't get it bad. If I get it, at this point it's really shoganai. If I don't get it from friends I will get it from work.

are not going to stop this omicron 4/5 wave. 

It's the seventh wave in Japan we are facing.

I think he meant Omicron BA.4 and BA.5....

The vaccines have proven to be safe and effective at drastically reducing your chances of getting a severe case!

No, the data is increasingly showing that these "vaccines" are risky and ineffective. They have very early on been shown to not prevent infection, and now it looks quite clear that they do not even prevent severe cases.

So people vaccinated twice make up about 2/3 of the total

I think you are missing some key pieces of data if you want to form a conclusion. But basically what percentage of the population has received two vaccinations? If more than two thirds, then it would suggest vaccination helps. (OK, that's a very crude explanation. It would also be better to know the ages of those infected and the equivalent vaccination rates for those age groups. I'll let you do the research.)

So people vaccinated twice make up about 2/3 of the total even if you count every single 不明 as unvaccinated. This seems to be the general trend as well from the previous times I've checked.

Very strange

I am surprised to see that people still don't understand that vaccination has nothing to do with getting COVID. It PROTECTS you from severe illness only. Anyone and everyone can get COVID. The reason there are more cases of vaccinated is because...um, there are MORE VACCINATED PEOPLE than not! Simple math!

Darnit, quote fail...

No, the data is increasingly showing that these "vaccines" are risky and ineffective. 

Except that you never provide that data, only terribly bad reports that have been debunked as faulty and misleading.

The evidence indicates the vaccines are safe and effective, why else would every scientific and medical institution of the planet support them? and no, a global conspiracy that includes every single one where everybody working there accepts damaging the health of their families and friends for money is not a believable reason for anybody with common sense.

Shutting the borders is a better opinion than vaccinations

Any data source to prove this personal belief? because that is not what the experts recommend.

The evidence indicates the vaccines are safe and effective

No No No !

There's absolutely no evidence to prove that the long-term effects of the vaccines aren't detrimental to longevity or procreation or any other health concern.

So take a step down from the soap box for a moment .

If all you can do is reference what other so called experts have told you its not critical thinking or truly logical is it.

There's absolutely no evidence to prove that the long-term effects of the vaccines aren't detrimental to longevity or procreation or any other health concern.

That is irrelevant, being vaccinated is clearly the much safer option compared with the risks of the infection, the arbitrary and illogical argument that people should be left to die a few decades just to confirm they could have been saved makes absolutely no sense.

Do you have long term data to prove the SARS-CoV-2 infection do not have any negative effects that will appear 5, 10 or 20 years from now? because if you don't with what are you going to compare the long term data of the vaccines?

If all you can do is reference what other so called experts have told you its not critical thinking or truly logical is it.

That would be the opposite, if all you can do is give your personal opinion about the scientific and medical consensus being all wrong just because your opinion has more value to you that is definetely not critical thinking nor truly logical.

Seigi Europe is not reporting either. Japan only play fear game by daily reports. On the other hand there is TV M running to advice to remove masks outside.

I follow the advice. I still don't wear mask outside, never done in last 2 years while traveling. It's interesting when other foreigners join the race and look at me like from another world while they cover they faces with masks as thin as paper. No wonder more heatstrokes are reported. Enjoy your own fresh air

That is irrelevant, being vaccinated is clearly the much safer option compared with the risks of the infection

This study (and many others) says otherwise: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239

"The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively)."

And that was preOmicron, the difference is certainly much greater now.

the arbitrary and illogical argument that people should be left to die a few decades just to confirm they could have been saved makes absolutely no sense.

Exactly! We should stop ignoring the safe and effective early treatments that are used in places where doctors are allowed to treat patients as they see fit. The IHU of Marseille recently presented their results after treating several thousands of patients, very impressive.

All these daft people saying things like, but 94.361% of people who are infected are vaccinated. This shows that the vaccines don’t work. No, it means that most people are vaccinated but still catching corona, as we expected, but far fewer people are getting seriously I’ll than before. Seriously, go and retake statistics 101!

This study (and many others) says otherwise: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239

That study has already been debunked by specialists that easily found invalidating problems with the methodology, specifically p-hacking and making invalid comparisons.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/statistical-shenanigans/

In simple terms they re-analized the data using different standards for adverse effect, ignored all the standards that said there was no difference and only included the one they liked, which is invalid

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/882:_Significant

It also manipulated the data so for vaccinated people every problem was counted in separate, while for unvaccinated covid patients all problems were aggregated into a single count, that is a clear manipulation and helps explaining why this report has not passed peer review in any listed journal.

Why insist on using a reference you already know is invalid and wrong? is it that there are no actual scientific reports that supports your belief that vaccines are not safe? that should put anybody to consider that maybe those beliefs are the ones mistaken.

Exactly! We should stop ignoring the safe and effective early treatments that are used in places where doctors are allowed to treat patients as they see fit.

No safe and effective treatment is stopped, only those that have already demonstrated to be worthless against covid and recommended against by the scientific and medical consensus. Once again, making your only argument that doctors and scientists from all around the world are letting their families die just so they can get money is not a believable conspiracy by anybody with common sense.

All these daft people saying things like, but 94.361% of people who are infected are vaccinated. This shows that the vaccines don’t work.

No it does not, having a huge difference of risk of complications and deaths clearly shows that vaccines work as intended. Pretending the main objective of a vaccine is to stop infections is not a valid argument.