Tokyo reports 714 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,821

Here we go again...

Troubling but expected numbers.

Cancel the trainwreck Olympics.

Totally predictable, as will be the call for another SOE. A total farce.

Quite high a Wednesday number… Yes, of course cancel that damned games immediately, that’s the only conclusion that makes sense. But wait, she’s now teleworking from home and the Hanko stamp is unreachable in the office’ desk, very clever. lol

SOE. Shut it down! Cancel the games. Force mask wearing. People are dying

This is not looking good

Out of last 15 days reported numbers, last 14 days are higher than previous week (for apple to apple comparison) - link below

https://omatomesan.com/tokyo-covid19/

Today number is 95 more than last week and fast approaching the 1000 mark/day number

But no way they will even consider cancelling the train wreck of this Covydimpics - they will revert to emergency for Tokyo for whole of Olympic period, ask Tokyo residents to stay home but at same time welcome more than 90,000 foreigners to come to Tokyo so that they can make their money and Japan can have bragging rights? Who cares for local population - sadly no one!!!!

[Paraphrased from 4:47pm] - a recent uptick in cases has officials concerned. According to Mainichi Shimbun, the govt is considering extending the measures by 2-4 weeks, that would overlap the Olympics that open Jul 23. - A meeting on measures late Wed to discuss dealing with signs of an impending surge in numbers that has experts worried, along with concern about the spread of more highly transmissible variants. ‘

Yesterday up 159 today up 238 but we are not heard nothing from certain quarters like we got bombard with on Saturday and Sunday!

Total silence.

Waiting to see what happens today with Osaka after its cases doubled in one day!

They should be posting the numbers soon.

But as every time before when the cases rise in Tokyo the rest of the country follows not to long after.

The takeaway from @5:13pm:

“recent uptick,… concerned,… Olympics open Jul 23,… worried,… concern about the spread of more highly transmissible variants.

They’ll let us know, … later.

it can be forcasted easily, stop the games!!

Even the most optimistic person might have trouble explaining this number.

Vaccinate, Vaccinate and Vaccinate more, that's the only way to beat this virus.

Interesting how cases rise with an increase in testing.

High positivity rate means more to come.

As much as I expected this, I honestly was hoping I would be wrong.

Financial I am under serious pressure to open my business to the public, my clientele are mostly older and Don not like to do business online.

So being closed for face to face business is not going to be sustainable much longer.

Some clients are now saying that because they are vaccinated they are now fine in coming over but I am not and won't be fully vaccinated until the end of August.

Rising numbers makes opening now even less likely.

How much worse can the Japanese government have handled things all because they wanted these stupid Olympics.

Man this feels like Groundhog Day ;-(

Going up!

Interesting how cases still rise despite an effort to reduce testing to hide the numbers for a certain event. That damn delta virus doesn’t play by the Olympic playbook. Poor Koike coming out of hospital today to this news which might disrupt her recovery.

@anon99999

It is because Tokyo cannot prevent private labs from testing during the week.

Also the private labs are obligated to report positive results.

Now I will not be surprised to see a change bin the reporting obligation and Tokyo suddenly no longer accept private lab results, then the numbers would remain low like they want.

Totally predictable, as will be the call for another SOE

as are comments like thiS

this feels like Groundhog Day 

as does reading all the negative comments here

Cancel the trainwreck Olympics.

not gonna happen, get over it

Vaccinate, Vaccinate and Vaccinate more, that's the only way to beat this virus

spot on

Not testing close contacts, not contact tracing and with a varient that's more easily spread? Do they want this to spread uncontrollably? Because by not doing the tracing, that's what we are getting.

Interesting numbers to analyze. We see a rise in numbers in Tokyo and severe cases slightly rise. Nationwide severe cases fell dramatically again. 

Where are the Olympics being held? Refresh my memory.

FrapokeToday  05:36 pm JST

Man this feels like Groundhog Day ;-(

"It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life."

very fitting

From the data provided  ...

I still have no personal concerns

that's your problem : mixing personal and subjective views with data to be analyzed in an objective way

Well, based on what I see happening in my neighbourhood, I'm not surprised at all. The majority of the infections are happening to people in their 20s, yet university circles/clubs and other activities are going forward as everything would be normal, shopping malls are full of young crowds either just having fun with friends or dating. Young people telling week after week of all the fun things they've been doing on their freetime; amusement parks, cafes, shopping, movies, local travelling, etc. I really question the logic, the intelligence and the sense of responsibility, when you can't refrain from things like these, at a time like this. So I'm sorry, I'm not blaming the Olympics like the majority of commentators here want to do, I'm blaming general irresponsibility and ignorance, that is further fuelled by similarly irresponsible content on TV, Youtube etc. People here seem to honestly believe, that simply wearing a mask (often on your chin) is the cure-all.

Today will be the first day in a while that new cases have exceeded recoveries, although Kanto is the only real hotspot at the moment. Just hope the vaccination program can continue to ramp up.

Bob Fosse

"Interesting numbers to analyze. We see a rise in numbers in Tokyo and severe cases slightly rise. Nationwide severe cases fell dramatically again." 

Where are the Olympics being held? Refresh my memory.

These numbers have nothing to do with the Olympics. They haven't started yet. I've been to the village, and it's a highly organised place, with strict security measures, temperature checks and disinfectants here and there, their own covid clinics etc. I honestly doubt the athletes would cause any harm for the population in Japan. It really is the other way around. I'm sick of Japanese people not knowing or doing even the simplest things to do to try and stop the spread - recently the number of people wearing a mask has started to drop, and only a random few will disinfect their hands when entering supermarkets or other shops. Like I've said for a year now, nobody is properly distancing from anyone or anything, but there are crowds simply everywhere.

Must be the E484K mutation. (Eek variant)

@Antiquesaving

Financial I am under serious pressure to open my business 

I understand that your life is hard. You also explained to us here your life situation many times.

Let me tell you my opinion:

Many of us here, and millions of japanese are in the same situation.

We also have to think about our financial situation.

But, we dont complain nonstop how bad is the japanese government handle the things here.

You know what we are doing?

We take a risk.

We the risk to get infected with Covid by going every day to work with full packed trains into full packed offices.

If we dont do that, we will have a big financial problem and dont know how to bring food on the table.

And you are in a much better situation than us. Because you have your own business. And your clients are already vaccined.

So Antiqusaving, take the risk and improve your financial situation.

And you can lower the risk by wearing mask, sanitizer, social distance, speparater...whatever.

But whining every day how bad everything here is will not help you or your financial situation.

You and me are living here In Japan since many years. So we know how Japan is working.

So get out of your paranoia and self pity hole and start to live your live.

You have kids, who you are responsible for.

Is it not worth to take a small risk for our kids?

I think you know the answer.

These numbers have nothing to do with the Olympics. They haven't started yet. 

Obviously.

I've been to the village, and it's a highly organised place, with strict security measures, temperature checks and disinfectants here and there

Uniqlo have staff at the door, temperature checks and disinfectant.

I honestly doubt the athletes would cause any harm for the population in Japan. It really is the other way around.

It’s a two way street. The bus driver for the Ugandan team may disagree with you.

At least deaths are going down

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/michael1732/viz/TokyoCovid/TOKYOCOVID-19

We don't want overshoot so please wash your hands, wear a mask, social distance and stay home! Please.

So Antiqusaving, take the risk

obviously you don't know how things work in Japan especially traditional crafts and even more a Gaijin.

Any hint at covid and that will end years of building up my business.

And just how many of the 1821 nationwide / 714 in Tokyo are the Delta strain - or is Japan just not bothering to test that specifically?

Tokyo will be back over 1,000 by Saturday.

@Antiquesaving

Ok...I just wanted to help you....

Bob Fosse

> "I've been to the village, and it's a highly organised place, with strict security measures, temperature checks and disinfectants here and there"

Uniqlo have staff at the door, temperature checks and disinfectant.

Right - but Uniqlo doesn't have a covid testing unit or a fever clinic adjacent to their stores, or staff and police to ensure people don't mingle with each other. I also doubt Uniqlo has offered the vaccine to their staff members.

"I honestly doubt the athletes would cause any harm for the population in Japan. It really is the other way around."

It’s a two way street. The bus driver for the Ugandan team may disagree with you.

The driver, as a staff member, should've been vaccinated. But we don't have that information, I believe. We do know, however, that the TOC has offered the vaccine at least to all staff members who are in direct contact with the athletes, and the program has been in full swing for a few weeks now.

Could it be this DELA super infectious variant creeping up on us???

DELTA

The Delta , Delta + or Epsilon variant ?

Anyway, the more contagious it is, the less efficient masks are, and need for higher efficiency masks.

Hope vaccinations will alleviate the burden on the medical staff.

It does seem to follow that bar graph shown on all the news. When it goes down, we lift the soe then it goes back up again.

Kanto is the only real hotspot at the moment. 

That's okay then - it's only 43m people after all. Nothing to worry about.

Whoever was ‘raising a flag’ earlier, claiming these numbers were just “interesting”, has to now, realistically, be reconsidering that it’s ‘not so positive‘ to continue with ‘Tokyo’s Games’?

May be a real concern for the media now..-Tonight’s Tokyo restrictions story, originating at 4:47pm, has now been amended with Today’s ‘numbers’ as well.

- “As Tokyo's infections rose to 714, their highest since May 26, …” -

Guess we’ll learn in the morning their decisions of furthering the restrictions?

Delta making it's mark... why doesn't Japan release the testing numbers or the varients? It's like saying "X people" were sick yesterday

Right on schedule. Lifted the "State of Emergency... what... 9 days ago or so?

Continue to use social distancing . . . another idea, stagger times people travel in order to minimize crowds on subways, streets, etc.

Perhaps you meant well @Monty 6:47 & 7:14pm but these up & down ‘numbers’ are frustrating everyone, no matter how positive they can claim to be:

- “Ok...I just wanted to help you....”-

However, @Antiquesaving’s plight is like many here. You @Monty, have the benefits of a big company, including company sponsored vaccinations starting Friday (“Congrats” again if you didn’t see it before).

The difference is small business owners have been ‘hung out to dry” in the last 18 months. Many have had to try alternate methods ‘on their own’ with little-to-no assistance from the government. The result: “Sacrifice & Losses”!

Like others, @robertmaes put his life’s work toward these games and what did he get by all the delays and government inadequacies. More “Sacrifice and Losses!

Also, many “gaijin” business owners may be considered ‘a part of community’ however, just *one, ***1** business ‘slip-up’ or misunderstanding, and you can easily become ostracized.

It’s not fair, but it’s built into the culture, even toward ‘their own’ people.

And , the majority of hard-working, equally tax-paying, resident foreign workers and business owners are waiting in line to get, IF they choose, to long-overdue vaccinations. In the meantime, if they get ‘sick’, in any fashion, the rumours begin, people start keeping a distance and stop patronizing their local favorite, then, houses are vandalized by cowards in the cover of night and irreversibly, the resident becomes the community pariah, regardless of the “truth”.

@Monty: My sincerest apologies again if I ever offended You in all this turmoil over the last 18 months. People have different points of view and their perception is their reality. But, admittedly, it’s not always best or correct.

So, Perhaps re-read your @6:47pm post more objectively and consider that support is probably needed more than a chastising? - Best Wishes to All.

At least deaths are going down

Perhaps a little explanation on how it works.

Infections went down, number of people with covid was down so the percentage of those seriously ill and dying will also be down.

As infections rise more will be hospitalised more will get seriously ill and more will die.

The percentages not change but more people sick the more people will be seriously ill and more will die.

The number of serious cases lags behind when cases rise, and deaths lags behind serious cases, it's a domino effect.

the olympics have been making people sick & killing them now for over a year with these on off again SOEs with the j-govt trying to pretend they can hold the games """"safely""" NOT!

Good thing out of the 714 only 66 were 60 yrs old and above.

Hopefully inoculation of the elderly will finish well ahead of the end of July target

The low deaths and severe cases demonstrate that the vaccines are working. With continued precautions and more vaccine take up we will not have a serious problem in Japan. It’s safe to go out nationwide, just take precautions. As long as you are not a very senior person, obese or have a serious underlying health condition the risks from Covid are minute.

Deaths will not shoot up now the elderly are being vaccinated.

Up 238 from Tuesday.

Holy smokes! That's an incredible increase, a major surge, as well as a rounding error on an a much greater number since the numbers can't bounce up and down so quickly. If only there was sufficient testing

Well, Japan has brought this upon themselves with their pompous and ignorant behaviour regarding Coronavirus.

The low deaths and severe cases demonstrate that the vaccines are working.

Correlation does not imply causation.

Honestly, how can most of you posting agree that a major increase in cases was measured in Tokyo? You have ALWAYS claimed that the numbers are inaccurate. You can't have it both ways. When the numbers kept dropping you claimed foul.

Look at at the overall numbers for Japan and you will see that things are getting better from month to month (Fewer deaths, fewer seriously ill, lower hospital occupancy rate, falling number of people presenting with symptoms, falling number of cases in Japan (most prefectures.) The vaccinations are protecting the vulnerable more than ever before.

Deaths will not shoot up now the elderly are being vaccinated.

2 weeks ago it was covid is beat cases are down vaccine are being given cases won't go up!

Now again the same thing but using deaths.

Only problem is deaths follow a rise in cases by about 2 weeks.

Ok I get you want to be "optimistic" but can't you for once admit when things are not going right?

No one in their right mind can look at cases in Tokyo more than doubling in 2 days and Osaka doubling in one day and keep claiming covid is beaten and nothing is worng.

You have ALWAYS claimed that the numbers are inaccurate. 

Another attempt at false information.

People never said the numbers are inaccurate.

People said the testing numbers are Low!

You know that but try placing false information.

Low testing means blow number of cases. But at this point infection rates are so high even low testing is still resulting in high number of cases.

Now imagine if Tokyo was testing properly the number of cases would be staggering!

Look at at the overall numbers for Japan and you will see that things are getting better

Now look at how things went the last several times the numbers in Tokyo went up, not long after the rest of the country followed.

Tokyo sneezes the country catches a cold!

AntiquesavingToday  10:09 pm JST

You are basing your conclusions on NO data. I am basing my conclusions ONLY on data. I agree that the number of tests are lower than in other countries but it doesn't allow you to assume anything...

"at this point infection rates are so high even low testing...."

so high and low testing means nothing since those are not numbers. We do however know: number of deaths, number of seriously ill, occupancy rate of hospitals, number of cases in every prefecture, number of vaccinations.

We do however know: number of deaths, number of seriously ill, occupancy rate of hospitals, number of cases in every prefecture

We also know that hospitalisation and deaths follow after infection rates.

Rates go up first then later comes the rise in hospitalisation and later a rise in deaths.

They are not and have never been simultaneous

But you know that, don't you?

@Antiquesaving There will be fewer deaths and hospitalizations because millions of vaccines are being administered weekly. 44M doses to date, or 34% of the population has at least one dose. And we know one dose will protect better than none.

source: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=JPN

With this incredibly fast pace, the vulnerable will be protected much better than before when there were real spikes. So NO, there will not be a significant rise in hospitalizations and deaths. We are seeing this in every country that has vaccinated so many people.

@objective

44 million total doses administered but 15 million are fully vaccinated. So 15 million people have received 30 million of the 44, which means only 14 million have received 1 dose. That makes only 23% (29/126) have received at least one dose. If we are sticking to the facts…

I had COVID here in Japan in early May, I recovered and am now basically immune. I had to get my immunity, "the hard way" due to no vaccine availability here, which still irks me to no end.

As of a few days ago, only a little over 9% of the Japanese population were vaccinated. They're near the very bottom of the list of countries in percentage of population vaccinated. Add delta to the equation, one good hot spell which will drive people indoors, and the continuous conspiracy theories online about how dangerous the vaccine supposedly is, what could go wrong in the next few weeks?

I had one Japanese friend tell me the other day she's waiting for a Japanese made vaccine, she doesn't trust the foreign vaccines. You see what I mean? They're near the bottom of countries that have been vaccinated yet they think they should wait longer. Let's see how it all shakes out...

And we know one dose will protect better than none.

Maybe not.

It generally gives a false sense of security and makes people becoming careless.

For example with the Pfizer, after few weeks, the immunity can drop at 33%.

If you add to it that the Delta variant reduces the immunity of 15-20%, you have a major risk of infection wave due to overconfidence.

Second dose is a must maybe soon a third.

@Objective, one dose of the vaccines isn't really going to cut it with DELTA:

According to the latest figures from Public Health England (PHE), four weeks after one dose, either vaccine offered almost 50% protection against the Alpha variant. However for the Delta variant this protection was lower, with one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab offering about 36% protection against symptomatic disease. For one dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine this figure was about 30%.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/15/the-covid-delta-variant-how-effective-are-the-vaccines

As of June 27th, only a little over 9% of the population has both shots and Japan is near the bottom of the list.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202074/share-of-population-vaccinated-covid-19-by-county-worldwide/

I guess in Japan DELTA isn't the main variant…yet.

Some think people dining out are selfish, I’d call them normal and enjoying life as the dark world some inhabit dies not reflect reality.

No, that isn't true. I also think they're selfish, but I don't live in any sort of dark world you mention.

i m going to take a hard zag and say this is a good thing.

It's going to prove vaccinations work, i.e increased cases won't result in increased hospitalizations and will motivate more to be vaccinated.

This summer was always going to stuck, so may as well prove vaccinations work so when the next wave comes people will be more level headed.

44M doses to date, or 34% of the population has at least one dose. And we know one dose will protect better than none.

That's not how it works though. The number you are citing is the number of ALL shots administered so far and does not make a difference between first and second shots. Giving the second shot to one person does not magically vaccinate another person. Of the 43,504,931 shots administered so far 14,591,068 were the second ones. So 28,913,863 people have received at least one shot so far (50.5% of those have already received their second dose). Therefore it's around 22.9% of the population that has received at least on dose and not 34% like you claim.

Also roughly half of the doses administered these days seem to be second shots. Going by the numbers from the last few days, the number of people that have received at least one shot will likely increase by around 0.4-0.5% per day. Unless they increase the speed, they will probably reach the 34% around the time the Olympics are supposed to start.

The authorities will call an urgent meeting and reach a resolution that COVID testing needs to be minimized once again. The Olympics is just around the corner so we have to show that corona is under control in Japan. Let’s bring back the four days fever requirement to be eligible for testing! Behind closed doors this is what they will be discussing!

The new case numbers are beginning to soar, yet again! It’s easy to blame the government, but it is those who are spreading it that are at fault. Avoiding catching and catching the virus is not so difficult. Wear a mask, practice social distancing and wash your flipping hands!

Why doesn’t Japan give information on clusters and contact tracing? Why isn’t Japan doing mass testing and isolating those who carry the virus? Why is Japan only testing those with symptoms? Many who carry the virus do not develop symptoms for weeks or show no symptoms at all. It’s too late once people have symptoms. They could have been in contact with hundreds, possibly thousands of other people. Japan will be battling this virus for years, possibly decades. The vaccines are not the silver bullet they are banking on. The longer they dither around the more chance there is of the virus mutating into another more infectious strain and/or a vaccine resistant strain. The Japanese strain!

Quick, reduce the testing.

So with minimal testing and obviously case numbers hugely underestimated total number of people critically ill people are 42??? Not 42 new critically ill people everyday just a total of 42...How many did there used to be in a heavy influenza year...probably a lot more.

Seriously talk abut the sky is falling! Too many chicken littles on here!!

The Delta variant has been shown to be more contagious but less deadly with the overall majority of people showing mild to no symptoms...whether vaccinated or not..

Get over it!

Vaccinate the elderly and those with secondary illnesses and move on.

This is the new flu not the end of the world!

Sanji- well said. Delta variant is 1/23rd as lethal as the original strain among unvaccinated. If you're vulnerable, get vaccinated. If not, you're not going to feel anything or get very sick from Delta.

Force mask wearing, people are dying

almost everyone is wearing a mask already.....and people are still dying......people are still contracting it........it's almost as if wearing a mask that is made of paper or an old pair of spongebob squarepants underpants has little to no effect.......

How many people are dying? THAT's the critical statistic. Rising= problem, Down= no problem. Get the vaccine out....cut down the severe patients and those that die......the virus will keep on virusing and we can all forget about the hysterical "wear a maaaaaaasssssk!" calls

look at the fatality rate worldwide

ok....it's 2.19%.....

and in Japan it's 1.8%

Vaccinated part of the population may still be low but if the elderly can be completely vaccinated by end of this month Japan would have achieved a significant milestone

It should result in far less mortality or mortality rate at least

Not that there are a lot of deaths to begin with

and in Japan it's 1.8%

That is the case fatality rate, the actual infection fatality rate is much lower as many infections go undetected (i.e. never confirmed).

t is the case fatality rate, the actual infection fatality rate is much lower as many infections go undetected (i.e. never confirmed).

Japan barely tested and required no autopsies, for those reasons alone we will never actually know the full numbers of covid related deaths.

The Japanese government is not interested in the truth only perception.

Look at Canada at least their government is willing to double check and now it is emerging that it is likely tend of thousands of covid related cases when uncounted or reported.

If the Japanese ( and many here) would be honest and admit that by not testing or requiring autopsies the official deaths is far below or at least not what is being presented and would do a proper review to see if or how many were not reported then perhaps there numbers can be trusted.

But Japan will never do such a review even if it could.

Unless you buy into the " Japanese are special beings" nonsense, then common sense tells us the numbers just don't add up.

That is the case fatality rate, the actual infection fatality rate is much lower as many infections go undetected (i.e. never confirmed).

Lack of information means you can't calculate the infection fatality rate, nor say how different it is compared with the case fatality rate, because lack of detection can apply also to deaths. "Much lower" would require evidence that nobody has.

klausdorth

My error. I was on the Vaccine Doses metric which was vaccines per 100 people. That number is 34% which was an overlook. We are closer to 25% in Japan and growing at about 2 points every 4-5 days which is very fast and encouraging. I will try to be better when posting data. But I won't post conjecture or assumptions based on feelings, only the public numbers given.

That is the case fatality rate, the actual infection fatality rate is much lower as many infections go undetected (i.e. never confirmed).

Lack of information means you can't calculate the infection fatality rate, nor say how different it is compared with the case fatality rate, because lack of detection can apply also to deaths. "Much lower" would require evidence that nobody has.

I never claimed to have an exact number. I just used this thing called common sense. World-wide, the IFR is considerably larger than the CFR. And for over a year, people here have been continually complaining that they can't get tested, including people that have multiple Covid19 symptoms. So obviously, the actual infection number is much larger than the confirmed case number.

Some have suggested that many covid deaths go unrecorded, but I have yet to see any evidence or rational for that or that Japan is particularly bad at keeping records...

As Ian recently asked "That no autopsy thing you always say, for example, can you provide the basis for that?"

There is no evidence that the government is concealing the death toll of Covid. 

Again you try and make up stuff.

No one said the government is covering up or concealing anything.

Everyone is saying by not testing properly the true numbers are not known.

It is that simple, why do we know how many died in the UK and Canada because they tested everyone possible regardless of their symptoms.

Not Japan it barely tested a tiny tiny tiny fraction of what other countries did.

It is as simple as this.

I can claim no one speeds on my road because no one has gotten a ticket.

But if the police have never checked or sent up a Radar, is my statement accurate?

I never claimed to have an exact number. I just used this thing called common sense.

"common sense" is not enough to guess something that you have no information about, the Japanese situation is mostly unknown because of lack of efforts from the government to properly follow the infection. The lack of testing include also lethal cases. From the very limited data of seroprevalence Japan don't have as many cases (yet) as in most of the countries, so the IFR is impossible to guess.

If the argument is that evidence is not being collected as it should be the complain that "you have not seen any evidence" actually works against your position, that requires evidence of absence, not absence of evidence.

That is the case fatality rate, the actual infection fatality rate is much lower as many infections go undetected (i.e. never confirmed).

According to John Ioannidis, globally the average IFR is 0.15%. In Asia/Africa it's 0.05-0.1%.

According to John Ioannidis, globally the average IFR is 0.15%. In Asia/Africa it's 0.05-0.1%.

That is the same researcher that was completely wrong about incidence in Santa Clara County with a report of terribly low quality, something that was a huge surprise since most of the problems and mistakes of the study were of the kind he usually heavily criticized. Surprised until it was found out he had a completely undeclared conflict of interest because he was funded precisely to make those mistakes.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-coronavirus-neeleman-ioannidis-whistleblower

At this point it is completely clear Ioannidis has been wrong about the pandemic since the beginning, apparently because of financial interests in him being mistaken.