Japan reports 81,401 new coronavirus cases

Terrifying. But seriously, I wonder if they will be higher or lower in Nov 2023?

Oh no 20 people in hospital in Tokyo with serious symptoms…the sky is STILL not falling!

I hope the 20 get well soon.

Me too elvis but I wonder what they will need to get well from…Covid or the other illnesses that had them in hospital in the first place?!

The question is not the low number in the hospital the question that begs to answered is how many ambulances that were turned away by hospitals carrying COVID patients who were seriously sick?

Only months ago, an injured motorcyclist who turned out to have COVID was rejected by a few hospitals and the ambulance turned around and dropped off at the scene of the accident where his father had to go and fetch him. I am sure this is not an isolated incident.

Are the media here not questioning why Japan's covid numbers are regularly posting the highest daily numbers of new infections - despite being one of the most masked up countries in the world?

Iraira

I suggest reading up on the subject regarding the immune system. In layman’s terms; worry and stress can reduce the immune systems ability to function by over 50%. Exercise, especially of the vigorous kind will help increase the immune systems ability to work to the max. Being positive minded and not allowing yourself to live in fear will also have the opposite affect of stress and increase your immune system and your well being.

Thinking of growing rich has nothing to do with what I’m discussing, it’s all available online in peer reviewed studies, but of course nobody can profit from you being like that except yourself .

Masks are having zero impact. Clearly.

Vaccines are not working. Clearly.

Time to move on like the rest of the world. Clearly.

Some complain ineffective masking, but the real problem is, that this is the only measure in place besides maybe other self restrictions like avoiding crowds. In other words, no antivirus measures are in place, only those behavior self restrictions, which is better than nothing, but of course not sufficient to keep the cases down. The same for those few vaccinations, better than none, but they aren’t adjusted to the variants in circulation. That’s why we have rising numbers and those would be even much higher without any masks or vaccinations. Finally, why are the numbers higher here, but not in other countries, those with even less masking and vaccinations? Well, look into the pandemic history, they all had their even more victims before and have already a much higher factor of people who had contact with the viruses, were infected once or multiple times and have more immunity levels out from the earlier waves.