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Posted in: Tokyo raises healthcare alert to highest level after virus cases soar to 822 See in context

Typo: "They don't know people" - "They don't know what they are doing. I think the Japanese people are surprised..." :)

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Posted in: Tokyo raises healthcare alert to highest level after virus cases soar to 822 See in context

Here in Osaka the alert went to Red (already finished?), but nothing changed in practice here xD it's all a facade. They don't know people are surprised by this number (still the testing is relatively very low), as they probably still think they are immune as they are the cleanest people on Earth, with the highest human and cultural standard, and speak the word PEN without air-explosions like foreigners do.

Give me a break.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 533 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 2,518 See in context

In Osaka, the severely ill people beds are already 63.6% full, approaching the 70%. The governor may chose tonight at 6pm to ask people to refrain from going out until the 15th:

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/18527aac0423081e9d4d42b70d7976e47c1b0f28

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 186 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,205 See in context

And number of tests unreported as of yet.

https://www.fukushihoken.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/index.files/021124sokuhou.pdf

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 534 new coronavirus cases as Japan goes on maximum alert See in context

@daito_hak

1) this is non-peer reviewed and not published, 2) this is one publication so you always have to be careful with the data 3) there are serval ways to calculate excess death with different models and algorithms (e.g. Farrington algorithm) and the threshold is usually quite high (as you van see in their data if you cared to take a look)

As a scientist myself, I get quite annoyed by people not understanding processing data and giving their work catchy headlines for attention reasons. There is more research out there suggesting differently, so wouldn't get too excited by one none-reviewed manuscript.

https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/ja/from-idsc/493-guidelines/9835-excess-mortality-20aug.html

Another main I want to make is not that I am convinced that we know the situation, as I was hoping for you to understand my my posts is that we are not sure because of the lack of testing. Another main point, besides this, are people like us living in Japan for a long time are tired of the government giving mixed messages on how to handle the pandemic: there is no leadership and above all, I hope we can all agree that handling a contagious virus is not done by encouraging people to go travel and to go eat.

Even if the cases are better than in the EU: I don't care, it would obviously be amazing, because I don't want people to die. The point is not that, because is it - again - not a game: the situation is obviously much worse because of all the reasons me and many commenters have been going through for a long time now. COVID-19 stats are an understatement in every country, but especially Japan, simply because of the lack of testing, before and after death.

I am not sure if you live in Japan or not, but if you do I think you should try to image how it is to live in a country with no leadership, having a government telling you mixed messages, a government encouraging people to go out and eat and drink and travel during a pandemic, a government choosing not to test people and choosing to make people pay for testing, to live in a country where the economy always comes before its people. There are no excuses how this government is handling the pandemic.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 534 new coronavirus cases as Japan goes on maximum alert See in context

@daito_hak

If the methodology and amount of testing is completely different between groups of results, it scientifically cannot be compared directly. Your logic simply is incorrect.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 534 new coronavirus cases as Japan goes on maximum alert See in context

Come on, this is conspiracy theory. Do you have any evidence showing that it would be similar or worse? Anything?

@daito_hak

This is not a conspiracy theory, it is a fact: we don't know, is a fact. There is no testing before or after death in Japan, so it is a scientific fact that we cannot compare the data of Japan to that of the EU.

@Zoroto

Yes exactly, it falls into the realm of reality of possibilities. It may be that some commenters and readers read news about the numbers in Europe, and have the impression and people are falling dead on the streets of Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin: there is no overflow of dead bodies in the EU either. For Japan to have thousands or tens of thousands extra death (hypothetically for the sake of the argument, not implying this is the case), there would not have to be any hiding of bodies. If elder people die in a higher abundance at their house, without getting tested, due to COVID-19, they will just get buried (burned) like normal, without being a COVID-19 number on the official Japanese list.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 534 new coronavirus cases as Japan goes on maximum alert See in context

@daito_hak

Did I mention anything about hiding bodies? For a significantly excess amount of people to pass due to COVID-19 complications, one doesn't need to hide bodies at all.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 534 new coronavirus cases as Japan goes on maximum alert See in context

@daito_hak

But that's the main point many people are trying to make. There is no testing, neither before nor after death, so we simply don't know. Is it similar, worse or better than in the EU? It's not a game so having that that: it's speculation, and one thing you don't want as a government and a citizen during a pandemic are wild speculations. Secondly, many hospitals are getting quite full here in Japan, so wouldn't be too sure.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 534 new coronavirus cases as Japan goes on maximum alert See in context

@blahblah222

Yes, this, 2nd that.

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Posted in: More than 2,000 daily coronavirus cases reported in Japan for 1st time See in context

Closed**

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Posted in: More than 2,000 daily coronavirus cases reported in Japan for 1st time See in context

@Didou

It seems strange indeed, but these are the official numbers (see their link in the article) from the local government, it takes 3 days to process in Japan (I guess because of fax systems...) and Sunday there is less testing (15th Nov) as many clinics are cloned, that's why the rate is always higher for Sunday, on average for the week it's around 6%.

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Posted in: More than 2,000 daily coronavirus cases reported in Japan for 1st time See in context

@Fanch

To be fair you can only get tested in Japan if you have strong symptoms so no wonder the ratio is high. Other countries tend to test a larger asymptomatic population.

There is nothing to be fair about; if there is no free testing and people with very mild symptoms might not wanna get or cannot get tested in Japan (because they don't have the right symptoms, because of social pressure or because it is expensive, or a mix of these) - and most people have mild or no symptoms - then you miss our on a lot of important data.

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Posted in: More than 2,000 daily coronavirus cases reported in Japan for 1st time See in context

@NipponGlory were you similarly "fully confident" a month ago? What changed?

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Posted in: More than 2,000 daily coronavirus cases reported in Japan for 1st time See in context

@Monty: In many EU countries (where they test 50-100x more than Japan by the way) corona figures have been significantly going down for a week now, because the governments are not actively telling people to go travel or go to restaurants on a discount.

You keep downplaying the virus and blame it all on the weather, there seems to be no critical thought about the Japanese government in your mind, just to the weather and some people "getting tired of this BS virus, like yourself". Fairly strange, I must say, but hey, blissful "the government is here to protect me"-ideas you have at least probably make you sleep a little better at night than me.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 352 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,731 See in context

Until people really take this serious which includes the government we are going to end up like the States and Europe.

I honestly think it's already like some EU countries now, just with 100x less testing...

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Posted in: New coronavirus cases in Tokyo top 300 for 1st time since Aug 20 See in context

And now while everyone is enjoying Go To Eat, and many hotels are completely booked due to Go To Travel for the 3-day weekend about to come. Let's enjoy crowded trains, shops and restaurants together while spending for the economy! As long as you test 1000 people in the biggest metropolitan in the world, you're gonna find what you want to tell your people. Are dead citizens really worth the Olympics? I'm afraid the answer to the Japanese government is yes.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 293 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,270 See in context

Um, this statement literally doesn’t make sense. You went on to say that I’m right, but then went on to say the same thing about blanket testing. It doesn’t appear you know contact testing works.

Well, I was trying to be nice to you, and say that indeed contact tracing is important, but there cannot be contact tracing if there is no testing. It literally makes sense.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 293 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,270 See in context

Which 50,000+ people should Japan be selecting each day to do testing?

Just wondering about practical matters.

Japan should not select, the can be criteria, such as people who have been in contact with positively tested people, staff working in the hospitals, if they have symptoms (many EU countries write you can get tested if you have a runny nose, cold-like symptoms, are sneezing, have a sore throat, are coughing, have a fever, lose your sense of smell/taste, etc). And this in combination with free testing.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 293 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,270 See in context

Strangerland

You are right, but it really should be both: without enough testing there cannot be enough contact tracing, because people will also spread without being tested (obviously).

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 293 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,270 See in context

These are Tokyo numbers, so I am comparing Tokyo.

Well, I did, but indeed my point ;)

To all the foreigners commenting negatively every time total infections are announced, why are you on this board if you have such a negative view of Japan? No one is claiming that Japan is superior its just that population due to their intelligence listen to the recommendations and therefore this results in lowering the infection rates than other countries. Its not really rocket science.....

I think that's the thing: people aren't really doing do much against COVID because the government is making it look like the situation is not so bad here: there is Go To Travel, Go To Eat, and for me, living in Japan (for a long time now), am worried to not know the Corona situation in Japan, because it has not being documented to a meaningful extend. As for my post, I agree with you, people should listen to the recommendation and mask-wearing is going well here, but I am pointing to posters that are constantly saying Japan is doing so well compared to other countries, but the data is not comparable to many EU countries. Also, I believe this is not a game, there are no losers or winners, everyone is losing, people are dying. We should know the extend of the virus, and Japan due to low testing has always been putting the economy first and their people last. This kind of criticism is important.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 293 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,270 See in context

Zoroto

3,540 tests conducted on Nov 7.

Likely the 293 cases are form however many tests they conducted on Monday, which we will find out on Thursday. No way they did 3500 on a Saturday.

The 3540 was from yesterday (Friday's number of tests), these 293 are based on 3001 tests (Saturday).

(By the way, similarly sized Belgium and The Netherlands are performing about 40.000-60.000 tests per day, in case people are going to start comparing in order to claim Japan's superiority again).

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 221 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 803 See in context

@theResident

I understand your point, and the main argument of my post was about the comparison of the figures and numbers.

However I do partly agree with your comment, I also partly disagree. It is true that in many cases things are cleaner in Japan, but if we are talking about hygiene in terms of corona virus prevention (which in its turn according to the Japanese people and many people on here causes the impossibly low numbers), I think it is largely a facade. While it is true that many places in Japan are cleaner than in the EU (such as trains and shopping malls), during the corona pandemic, now, the hygiene practices I was referring to were about hand cleaning with alcohol disinfectants: which is a point I am making because it (from my daily experience) is countering the main arguments so many people seem to throw out here. People, when entering and leaving the shops, are in fact largely not using the sprays or gels. Not in the city center, nor in inaka areas.

As for masks you are completely right and I agree Japanese people wear masks significantly better (including those plastic ones which completely have no function). But viruses spread also through skin contact when you don't use alcohol and in restaurants when you are not wearing a mask.

My main point being; the true practice of Japanese people on hygiene precautions in terms of the Corona virus is not as hygienic and perfect as they let the world think and can additionally not account to the low and incomparable numbers and figures of the corona situation in Japan.

But, I think it is indeed better to leave personal experience and feelings out of this, after living here for such a long time, I get tired of the "we Japanese people are so special, clean and better than the rest of the world" hypocritical and discriminating mentality, but without these statements, feelings, opinions and daily personal experiences, the figures and numbers are truly not comparable to that of the EU, as stated in my previous post.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 221 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 803 See in context

Everyone comparing data of other counties to Japan; it’s impossible to compare this one on one, especially in the case of Japan.

Every country different in: amount of tests per million (Japan is one of the lowest), accessibility of testing (Japan has no free testing, EU has), criteria of tests are different, methods of analysis differ, post-mortem diagnosis differs (Japan does not even do this), method of obtaining samples differ and much more.

It is very well possible that Japan has lower numbers than the EU. That being said: how is Tokyo gonna find more than 10k numbers if you are doing (paid) testing of up to 6000 people? With a positive rate of 4-10% (hypothetical number) Japan needs to test 100.000-250.000 people in Tokyo alone daily to get a similar number as in the EU if the infection rate would be as such...

its in our nature to compare but this is not that simple and we have to be critical of the Japanese numbers, that is only logical. I don’t understand why there is still a daily battle going on on this website where people compare deaths and positive test numbers: it doesn’t work like that use your brain!

just a side note: someone mentioned Japanese people are clean and use alcohol; in the EU, baskets in the supermarket are cleaned and in many countries an maximum number of people can enter. In Osaka where I live I’d be lucky if I see 10% of the people using the alcohol hand spray in front of the store, it’s all a facade. Like most things in Japan its just face; wear a mask in your car, but take it of in the restaurants sitting next to groups of people in unventilated izakaya’s. Don’t make me laugh xD

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 177 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 495 See in context

@Nihonview: I hope you are ironically talking about your own daily comments?

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 276 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 692 See in context

@i@n: I don't want to waste more energy on this, so this is my last post about it, it is the truth, take it or leave it (am not going to defend more to a Monty-ignorance, complete waste). To answer your question: she was not allowed to attend the funeral (obviously you can enter the other prefectures) because she (and other members) were from other prefectures, just like her husband, and other family members. The brother and his wife live in the same prefecture, so they were allowed to attend the funeral. This is my best friend, so I know there are no lies here. Can't believe some people here.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 276 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 692 See in context

@AG: I also see many here in Osaka without masks, especially when they are out in the izakayas, bars and restaurants. Japan is "selling" it's Japan Model with the three C's, always wants to export something, and idea, concept, but with little weight.

Not to discuss here not the numbers up/down trending, etc, but something related;

Wanted to mention here something I did not know and was shocked about. One of my best friends (Japanese) was allowed to travel to many different places within the past months (visited many prefectures, including Hokkaido last week (she was on that diverted Niigata flight because that man didn't wanna wear a mask, coincidentally!)).

Anyway, although this is OK (spending money on the economy by GoTo traveling with your friends around the country), it was NOT ok to visit her own biological father's funeral this week, because this was in another prefecture. What?! These rules are so hypocritical and make me furious. Super sad.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 141 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 583 See in context

Diabete, obesity and other factors explain the death rate. Japan is (currently) protected from that thanks to a better diet.

I don't think japanese health system or governement actions have something to do with it.

Yea, these factors have a big influence, there is a lot of scientific data suggesting this.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 141 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 583 See in context

@Reckless, yes indeed you are right and I’m not saying this at all. Maybe you didn’t read my post, but I was talking about many other EU countries. Spain and Italy were indeed horrific.

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Posted in: Tokyo reports 141 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 583 See in context

Even if you look at the official Japanese numbers, with the low testing and without postmortem autopsies etc, there are more daily corona deaths in Japan than most European countries. E.g. yesterday in Japan it was +17, while in Germany it was 4, The Netherlands was 0, Belgium was 1, Sweden was 0, Switzerland was 1. Of course the USA has been incomparably horrible. Which is just terrible. My points always here have been that it may just very probably be true that Japan did not have an extreme situation during this corona crisis, such as overflowing hospitals. But the same is true for most European countries, even during the first wave, and this is especially true for the second wave. I am very happy and glad that the situation in Japan has not been like the USA, and I will never state this. I do get however very tired of all these people on this website saying how Japan is doing such a great job, while the situation here now is worse than in most EU countries, and where the government is not doing anything to increase testing, to implement policies and to be transparent. And no, I am not implying at all that the government is hiding bodies, or weird comments sometimes posted here. The world is not black and white, it is not either "control" or "hiding bodies", it is somewhere in between, where the hospitals are not overflowing, fortunately, and where the government is doing almost nothing, and there there is no post-mortem testing so the scale of things here is just literally largely unknown. There have not been hiding bodies and extreme things like that, but because of the low testing, unknown infection routes and no postmortem autopsies, even if you look at May, two days ago a new analysis came out (https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2020083100804) suggesting that month the excess deaths may have been 2600 (and that is 3 months ago). My point is not - just to be clear again - that Japan is not overflowing and bodies are being hidden. My point entirely is that the more realistic numbers are far worse than the official numbers, which is true in every country, but especially Japan.

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