University of Tokyo economics professor Tsutomu Watanabe. Experts say the public, already used to the spread of the coronavirus and tired of life under self-imposed restrictions seem less scared o fthe virus during the current state of emergency than they did under the first one last year.
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It is understandable for young people with a lower risk of developing serious symptoms not to exercise voluntary restrictions. Criticizing them will only trigger opposition.
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TrevorPeace
Dumb comment from an educator.
Aly Rustom
It is understandable for young people with a lower risk of developing serious symptoms not to exercise voluntary restrictions.
especially when politicians like Suga don't set a good example and host steak dinners
gaijintraveller
And it is most certainly not understandable when politicians, those who are supposed to be leaders, do not exercise volutary restrictions.
Aly Rustom
like hosting steak dinners AND visiting hostess bars during the state of emergency
carpslidy
Good for them, no reason to stay home if your under 65.
zurcronium
This a recent report for Tokyo, young people are getting infected at higher numbers than other age groups currently. The data and clueless opinions above are sadly out of touch with what is current fact.
SandyBeachHeaven
With all those stats on ages, why not stats on ethnic backgrounds as well? Would be helpful.
Luddite
Same elsewhere. The numbers of young people infected are on the rise, they are most likely to ignore lockdown rules too.
carpslidy
How many will quickly make a full recovery? 99.9%.
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Mickelicious
Is the commenter a behavioural economist?
virusrex
One thing is that a problem can be understood (the reasons why the younger population is not taking proper measures) another completely different is to say that this makes the situation less problematic. The same reason can be used to "justify" a lot of other health problems, smoking, unprotected sex, abuse of substances, etc. Fear of triggering opposition is not a reason to let those problems develop without giving them attention.
That is not supported by evidence, is just wishful thinking, specially because not dying is not the same as fully recovering. Also, best survival rates are completely dependent on having a fully functioning public health care system, having waiting lists for necessary hospitalizations means a lot of patients (including those that were young and healthy before infection) would not get the proper treatment that would save their lives. Widespread infection because of young people not taking proper care is a sure way to get into that situation.
Sven Asai
No, that is by far not understandable, you crazy university ‘expert’. They just have to be taught to develop a minimum of responsibility and respect to all other people, also those of higher risks in their own age group and of course the age groups above in general, as some of them may develop serious symptoms or even die, btw unnecessarily more than usual , exactly because of that behavior and opposition.
Wick's pencil
If you are young and healthy, this "pandemic" is over if you want.
AtsushiExiled
Wherever you're getting your 99.99% figure, it's wrong. More like 80%, and recovery takes about 2-6 weeks for mild cases. And whatever you mean by "full" recovery, that's still up for debate, because of lingering symptoms, even from people with mild cases. I know a few young people (20s-30s) who were infected in March and are still suffering, one who still has pretty severe symptoms.
From a September report from the WHO about long-term effects of Covid:
• Most people with COVID-19 experience mild symptoms or moderate illness.
• Approximately 10-15% of cases progress to severe disease, and about 5% become
critically ill.
• Typically people recover from COVID-19 after 2 to 6 weeks. (See figure below)
• For some people, some symptoms may linger or recur for weeks or months following
initial recovery. This can also happen in people with mild disease. People are not
infectious to others during this time.
• Some patients develop medical complications that may have lasting health effects.
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