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medical workers worry that the similarity of symptoms to COVID-19 may place extra pressure on a health care system already creaking under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic.

It would be nice if the journalists and the government could get their story straight honestly.

"Creaking"

Is there a problem here with Covid19 or not? Do the fatality numbers even closely represent reality?

Everything seems 100% BAU except extra mask wearing, the govnerment encourages travel, the tests are always trending down; however the medical system is is creaking from Covid19?

I've learned to except the complete weirdness of being stuck in Japan during this pandemic only because, what else can you do? It's absolutely bonkers.

Well done Japan, Koike an Abe are great parents! Abenomics FTW!!!

@Monty, even if that were remotely accurate, it would be hardly possible to produce and administer that many dosses in such a short time frame, and no one is going to rush something like that just for the Olympics sake.

I think everyone is working to restore travel no?

@wanderlust, it doesn't matter, they've downgraded the credit rating.

Thanks for urging us to stay home Koike! Now I urge you to do something about it so I don't have to loose the next several long weekends, or worse.

@Jax,

There is absolutely no way I will listen to her urges. They don't allow me to go back home for Christmas, I am gonna "go to travel" the hell out of Japan domestic wise.

While taking precious measures like washing my hands, of course.

It's this type of attitude which will likely result in new lock down laws being instated. I don't want a lockdown, but I also think people just go over the top with "challenging the system".

Put a cap on the age of politicians and voters, way too much deadwood.

Same thing will happen here soon.

Why blame the hosts, what about the customers? Have doctors call them?

The blame game needs to stop, it's everywhere, this is not helpful to blame hosts, ridiculous.

Clearly this is all the fault of nightlight workers and young people, right?

Are they playing Bingo in that photo?

How about just doing your job Ko-ike?

WELL DONE JAPAN!!! OPEN THE ECONOMY!!!!

The people of the world are si.....oh wait....

Like, as a leader, you need to take charge of a situation? Does she know that?

How about offering those people social welfare and putting the money you'll give to the mafia to better use?

@sir_bentley28, are you sure you're a cop?

Just walked passed plenty of Izakaya FULL of red faced Ojisan, maybe their just testing young peoples venues, try harder.

@therougou, the important word there being had

Oh little pond, why do you desert us?

There was an article on here about how devestating a natural disaster combined with a Pandemic will be.

Here we are.

At least they do testing in Melbourne!

Obviously, it's the young peoples fault?

Where are the politicians who we the tax payers pay to get a handle on the rising numbers????

Obviously, in the hostess bars?

Everybody’s’ focus has been only on the new cases. No mention at all on the decrease in deaths.

Hopefully there is a decrease, but even a very basic person understands that you'd rarely die within 24 hours.

Sadly first comes the positive test result and depending on how a person reacts, it can take up to three weeks before dying.

So there will be a spike in cases, then deaths to follow after that.

And no word in the fact that the death rate plummeted completely, with a lower death rate than that of march, many days with 0 deaths, the fact that most of the new cases are from asymptomatic people, and the fact that the PCR test methodology changed... No, let's only focus in "big numbers bad"

This is all assuming that, the real number is only 68 and that all the deaths so far are being accurately reported and there isn't a delay on autopsy results, which ofc will take longer than the tests.

Tokyo has "fought" nothing. It's been cooking the books and hiding from the truth since day one.

Anyway, onto the next useless experiment by Koike.

lol

What are the alternatives ?