Tokyo reports 369 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,362

Can Japan Today just put this number on a side-bar in the form of a graph and update it daily? A sole article each day seems excessive. The numbers no longer alarm anybody. Life is pretty normal in Japan and most hospitals are coping. Separate stories would be warranted when issues arise.

Totally agree with the comments above. Makes no sense.

I expect the numbers to increase again with tomorrow's news.

There is no way the numbers will increase again. These next weeks are crucial for the Olympics to be confirmed, or not. No way the gov would let numbers increase again.

It is all staged, and it always have been around here. The virus is spread out across the country, and no one is free to get infected.

Below some interesting reading regarding the absolute lack of contact tracing in Japan, and how difficult it is to get tested.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/12/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-japan-covid-19-vaccinations-health-medicine/

It’s very easy now to get tested and for a reasonable price. I got tested yesterday for 2,700 yen. You can buy home test kits for 4,000 yen. Stop with this doom and gloom already and get on with life. We are a year into this now. If it was going to explode out of control it would have happened already.

"Kinda odd that numbers go up and down more or less uniformly across the country.

When Tokyo goes up, they all go up, when Tokyo goes down, they all go down.

Odd."

LOL with a capital L. I guess you need a crash course in stats and medicine. First, the government implemented an SOE in most of the country, so most of the country is following the same policy, so the government wants the same results for the whole country. Second, Japan is a small country, so you expect to see some uniformity in the numbers. However, in a bigger country, you would see a great deviation among the regions of the country because of geography . (Look at the US and China).

Think.

Numbers dropping across the nation. Active cases now close to a third of what they were a month ago. Well done Japan!

No opinion here. Just an answer to a commenter’s question:

@Objective  4:34p JST “can put this number on a side-bar in the form of a graph and update it?

Kyodo News, a routinely recognized JT source, has a graph similar to what your looking for: “Coronavirus infections by prefecture” but last update “As of 8 p.m., Feb. 10, 2021 (Japan time)”:

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/02/2df625004639-japan-forgoes-lifting-virus-emergency-this-week.html

@Objective (cont’d); “The numbers no longer alarm anybody. Separate stories warranted when issues arise.”

True. But you can watch the colors go up and down in the periphery while you read.

Also, Tokyo Metropolitan Govt and NHK provide the daily tallies. Agree JT would be better served by running other stories and only Covid stories when newsworthy.

345 tomorrow, 312 the day after, 389 Tuesday, who cares?

I will not accept being forced to take the inoculation against my Will without a Government pledge of Insurance against side effects... death, and having to take "boosters" for the rest of my life without having for pay for them.

But the number of seriously hill is not decreasing, it is more complicated to hide those one.

as for the olympics, a quick look at Australia Open fiasco says it all

I am not an anti-vaxer.... but I am, cautious about what is being injected into my body.

Some ... have proven benefits (over time), others.... definitely did not.

I am not one to run to join a queue just because its new and fancy.

What I do know about the current vaccination variants , that they fall into several types:

The best peformant ones, introduce a weaker version of the virus into you in the hope your body adapts...

Both appear to require yearly re-applications - just like the yearly Flu-jabs....

Note: I have never subscribed to this, and have never had the Flu....

The longer term impact of this introduction of a milder form of the virus has not yet had sufficient study to determine impact.

The sudden rush, makes me wonder whether there is a different underlying motive towards this sudden "enforcement" of inoculation... which actually does not prevent the virus, but temporarily prevents you from dying from it - so you can still pass it on to others.... inoculated or not.... who benefits from that ?

Good luck mamaw

Mmdvk

@mmwkdw

Take a deep breath and calm down. No one is going to force you to take the vaccine.

It's possible it may be a requirement for certain activities like entering some countries, but it will still be voluntary.

The best peformant ones, introduce a weaker version of the virus into you in the hope your body adapts...

@mmwkdw this is demonstrably false. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines both work by sending a set of RNA instructions to your body (think of it like some computer code). They tell your body to generate copies of the specific spike protein which the coronavirus hijacks in order to enter the body. Bear in mind, the body is naturally creating these proteins, they are NOT being injected into you. Secondly, and most importantly, there is NEVER any actual coronavirus DNA present in the vaccine, and there is ZERO risk of you, or anyone, catching covid from receiving the vaccine.

I hope this helps, but if not, then please don't spread false information.

The others try to target the specific virus

Both appear to require yearly re-applications - just like the yearly Flu-jabs....

That makes no sense, most vaccinations do not require yearly re-applications only the ones for the flu does, and that is because the specific mechanism obtained by the virus to adapt to the immune system by easy recombination of genes between countless serotypes. Childhood vaccinations or those for tropical diseases like Japanese encephalitis or Yellow fever work for years without problem. And many of those are not even attenuated virus vaccines.

The longer term impact of this introduction of a milder form of the virus has not yet had sufficient study to determine impact.

The most important difference between inactivated and attenuated vaccines is that attenuated ones stimulate immunity not only because of their antigens but also because there is viral nucleic acids inside the cells of the body making a much more natural simulacrum of an infection. That is part of what happens with mRNA vaccines.

The sudden rush, makes me wonder whether there is a different underlying motive towards this sudden "enforcement" of inoculation... which actually does not prevent the virus, but temporarily prevents you from dying from it - so you can still pass it on to others.... inoculated or not.... who benefits from that ?

The clinical trials run for the approved vaccines has been used before on other vaccines that had no problems, the mRNA technology has been tried on humans for years without problems.

Also, no vaccine can guarantee lack of infection, that is realistically impossible, vaccines efficacy is measured by preventing the disease, there is still no information to assure people will transmit the disease less than non-vaccinated people, but that is not the same as saying it is already a sure thing. It is very likely they will also help with this.

What do you mean with "temporarily prevents you from dying from it"? do you believe that people will get sick and die later from the infection? there is nothing to indicate that, for all we know the immune response is equivalent to having a very symptomatic case of the natural disease, just much more safely.

The main people that benefit from vaccination are obviously the vaccinated people themselves.

You can refuse vaccinations as much as you like, the same as people that refuse to use antibiotics or blood transfusions, what you cannot do is to try to justify it as a logical or rational decision.

@Burning Bush ever heard of the measles, smallpox? Vaccines did quite well in those instances.

Kinda odd that numbers go up and down more or less uniformly across the country.

When Tokyo goes up, they all go up, when Tokyo goes down, they all go down.

Odd.

The pattern is led to conclude that there is no significant difference between SOE and non-SOE prefectures. Numbers have declined for weeks in the same manner, regardless of SOE. The government should review or question the efficacy of the latest restrictions.

You can refuse vaccinations as much as you like, the same as people that refuse to use antibiotics or blood transfusions, what you cannot do is to try to justify it as a logical or rational decision.

Then why has the WHO advised pregnant women to refrain from getting it?

You can refuse vaccinations as much as you like, the same as people that refuse to use antibiotics or blood transfusions, what you cannot do is to try to justify it as a logical or rational decision.

also, the CDC is now recommending "intubation kits" at Covid vaccine sites.

Why? Because the VAERS reports include many cases of anaphylactic shock following vaccinations so severe that intubation and ventilation was required.

Ahhhh, Im sure its nothing...

ZorotoFeb. 13  08:16 pm JST

Japan has been reporting an about 5% death rate for the past 2 weeks.

If we go by the generally accepted number, 0.1% CFR, the positive cases are underreported by about 50x.

So instead of 1300, we likely have around 60,000 positive

Well if your right, what's all the panic about?

A 0.1% death rate means hospitals won't be overrun and deaths will be no different than a regular flu season.

Then why has the WHO advised pregnant women to refrain from getting it?

Pregnant women are advised to avoid all sorts of things, from medication to too much coffee, because not many safety tests are done on foetuses and it’s better to be safe than sorry. What’s perfectly safe for a healthy adult can have unforeseen effects on a few hundred grams of emergent life.

’Pregnant women should take care and consult their doctor before accepting the vaccine’ does not mean ‘This vaccine is a danger to all’.

You can refuse vaccinations as much as you like, the same as people that refuse to use antibiotics or blood transfusions, what you cannot do is to try to justify it as a logical or rational decision.

Then why has the WHO advised pregnant women to refrain from getting it?

Unless you're a pregnant woman @bob using that WHO advice to refrain from getting vaccinated is not a logical or rational decision.

Then why has the WHO advised pregnant women to refrain from getting it?

Because they haven't cleared it for pregnant women.

Are you suggesting pregnant women should take untested vaccines?

also, the CDC is now recommending "intubation kits" at Covid vaccine sites.

You know where intubation is much more often used? in ICUs where COVID patients are treated.

You keep making the mistake of thinking vaccines would need to be perfectly safe without ever anyone having problems to be safer than the natural disease, that is false.

If you have a few cases per million where a person has a severe reaction that can be safely treated, and the option is having people dying from the infection at the percentage level that still means the first option is the rational, logical one. Specially because people with propensity to allergies do not have to refuse anything, they are contemplated in the valid medical exceptions, the same as pregnant women or children under 16yo.

If you have a few cases per million where a person has a severe reaction that can be safely treated, and the option is having people dying from the infection at the percentage level that still means the first option is the rational, logical one.

You're arguing risk management and logic. They're arguing ideology.

I appreciate your continued efforts though. They provide information for those who are swayed by information rather than ideology.