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Sour grapes considering western reports of imminent disaster? Emergency was a gov't suggestion, no legal penalties applied for non-compliance. So there was no lock down in Japan as understood elsewhere
https://abc.net.au/news/2020-05-23/japan-was-meant-to-be-the-next-italy-on-coronavirus/12266912
https://theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/from-near-disaster-to-success-story-how-japan-has-tackled-coronavirus https://telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/05/22/has-japan-fared-much-better-britain/
https://abc.net.au/news/2020-05-23/japan-was-meant-to-be-the-next-italy-on-coronavirus/12266912
https://theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/from-near-disaster-to-success-story-how-japan-has-tackled-coronavirus https://telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/05/22/has-japan-fared-much-better-britain/
Independent pvt sector confirmation, this Dutch guy heads a western insurance company active there since late 1800's
I said then itself about families of Wuhan virus patients, see pt 3
https://twitter.com/Rjrasva/status/1243184045447675905
So use some common sense when u read western media fantasies about Far east (or for that matter anywhere in the world)
https://twitter.com/Rjrasva/status/1243184045447675905
So use some common sense when u read western media fantasies about Far east (or for that matter anywhere in the world)
Spanish flu also led to relatively low # of deaths in Japan (only Ireland & Aus were better) which authors attribute to 1) prev exposure to
Pandemic Influenza in Japan, 1918-19: Mortality Patterns and Official Responses
Geoffrey W. Rice and Edwina Palmer
https://www.jstor.org/stable/132645
Pandemic Influenza in Japan, 1918-19: Mortality Patterns and Official Responses
Geoffrey W. Rice and Edwina Palmer
https://www.jstor.org/stable/132645
milder strain 2) mask wearing 3) use of traditional herbal medicines etc
The trust based system called Okigusuri (after medical salesman leaves chest of herbal medicines @ ur home,use what u need & pay for it next yr when he comes back to replenish chest) is still alive even now
The trust based system called Okigusuri (after medical salesman leaves chest of herbal medicines @ ur home,use what u need & pay for it next yr when he comes back to replenish chest) is still alive even now
In their willingness to use masks, the Japanese people also showed themselves far more alert to the dangers of droplet infection than most European peoples in 1918
Okigusuri : Trust-Based Medicine Marketing
