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Japan reports 96,392 new coronavirus cases

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Japan on Thursday reported 96,392 new coronavirus cases, down 28,716 from Wednesday. Tokyo reported 7,719 new cases, down 1,468 from Wednesday.

The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo was 44, unchanged from Wednesday, health officials said. The nationwide figure was 681, down nine from Wednesday.

The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 451.

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Japan reports 451 covid related deaths.

How about this headline?

One question-how this is possible in country with high% of vaccination,facemasked people,social distances,all of these plexi walls and vinyl curtains in taxi,buses,kombinis?

Any serious thoughts?

Its is hard to admit that all of covid "science" is completely useless?

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Omicron’s mortality rate was essentially zero for people under 60 and 0.18% for those aged 60 to 79, putting it very close to the seasonal flu’s mortality rate of 0.01% for people under 60 and 0.19% for those aged 60 to 79.

Downgrade it to the same level as the flu and get rid of masks already.

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My serious thought is what about the 451 families grieving while keyboard warriors complain about a clear piece of plastic being such an inconvenience for them. Japan has never had any vaccine or mask mandates. If you think Japan enforces social distancing, 7:45-8:45am on the Yamanote line will prove you wrong.

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One question-how this is possible in country with high% of vaccination,facemasked people,social distances,all of these plexi walls and vinyl curtains in taxi,buses,kombinis?

Any serious thoughts?

You take the lead.

Might I add, in all seriousness, nothing beats finding things out yourself if you really want to learn.

But I suspect your request for "serious thoughts" is a product of a deep sense of insecurity created by the pandemic, and your mind is already closed to alternatives to your narrative. Ponder those points before going any further.

11 ( +20 / -9 )

@eastman, I agree totally.

but in Japan everyone shuts up and gets back in line with ya mask and santized hands without questioning it.

-8 ( +8 / -16 )

Wow! These Covid numbers are certainly numbers!!!

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The Christmas and New Year's season is over, so infections are going down. As the deaths are delayed by a couple of weeks, these are staying the same. As expected. But wait, these deaths are not due to COVID, they are deaths with COVID (the propaganda spreaders may say). Infections are down, so the deaths shoould be down as well. But they are not! Because, these are deaths, due to COVID!

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santized hands

I mean just how dumb are you not to understand that sanitizing or washing hands is helpful

5 ( +12 / -7 )

When the government decides to downgrade Covid to flu, which it will in all likelihood do this Friday for sometime in the spring, then say sayonara to these daily counts, plastic shields and 99% compliance to the masks. All other Asian countries are in a race to downgrade as a matter of economic survival. Just look at China’s massive about turn. Covid will become a taboo topic in a few months.

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I don't mean just the time spent here.

If taboo to talk about how will they share the newfound knowledge they learn from all the sleepless nights spent in YouTube and other scholarly sites?

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I think Bronco's "facts" lead us to this;

“Is Omicron the same as flu? No. But the vaccines have made the risks to the individual very similar,” said Dr Raghib Ali, senior clinical research associate in epidemiology at Cambridge university, who added that this made a “large spike” in hospital admissions or deaths “unlikely” while Omicron remained the dominant strain.

https://www.ft.com/content/e26c93a0-90e7-4dec-a796-3e25e94bc59b

The more they say, the more they lose.

4 ( +9 / -5 )

Seems "wave number 8" (got got to love how they split it up into waves to keep us engaged and fearful) is up. Onwards to no 9!

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It's not clear at all what's happening here. Every person who dies is tested for covid. When we get the figures for excess mortality October-December 2022 we'll know more.

It's just been annnounced that deaths were 30% more than expected in England and Wales for the first week of the new year.

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Its is hard to admit that all of covid "science" is completely useless?

Exactly. Covid science is quite solid, but Covid "science" is completely upside down...

-4 ( +3 / -7 )

Good to see case numbers fall

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