Japan Reports Highest Daily COVID Case Rate Since the Start of the Pandemic

Well so much for all the false claims that Ivermectin was causing Japan to have such a low COVID rate:

A mother wears a mask while holding her child near Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes)

The sixth wave of COVID-19 in Japan gained strength over the weekend, rising to a daily total of 26,801 new cases on Monday and exceeding the previous peak reached six months ago, according to the World Health Organization.

A government panel could recommend a modified state of emergency, or quasi-emergency, in 11 prefectures, including Tokyo, on Wednesday due to the spike in cases nationwide, Japanese media reported Tuesday. 

Three other prefectures, including Okinawa, are already under a quasi-emergency. The new emergency may last three weeks, according to reports. The government would ask bars and restaurants to close early and refrain from selling alcohol, among other measures.

The U.S. military in Japan as of 6:30 p.m. Tuesday had not reported its total COVID-19 infections from the holiday weekend around Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It last confirmed 715 new infections across 17 military installations on Friday. 

Yokota Air Base, the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, reported 138 new cases between Jan. 12 and Tuesday, for a 273 active cases, according to the base website. Most new infections, 130, were acquired locally and eight tested positive after recently arriving in Japan.

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You can read more at the link, but Japan now has a higher daily case rate than at any during the Delta Wave that hit the this past summer.

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

It is amazingly hard to pin down the exact situation with Ivermectin in Japan.

It doesn’t seem to be officially used in any way.

A medical organization with a lot of influence is recommending it… though the media downplays this rather important development.

Is it being quietly used by some doctors without government threats (unlike some countries)?

No statistics are available on sales and use.

All very odd.

So we know at worst, it does no harm. It is a well-known drug with a great deal of use history. Saying this (or HCQ) is dangerous while claiming new and relatively untested covid vaccines to be unquestionably Safe and Effective is a lie so big it nullifies any further statement or opinion.

(Anybody saying the covid vaccine is Safe and Effective is an intentional liar and a dangerous person… they are clearly not very effectivd and they haven’t been around long enough to claim they are safe. That’s the facts, fats.)

At best, Ivermectin has a positive effect. Of course doctors didn’t open a drug book and point to the first thing they saw. There is a theoretical reason why this should have some effect against covid.

And, interestingly, it is the same mechanism the new $400 anticovid pills claim to use.

Soooo… your choices are:

1. They both work.

2. Neither work.

3. Only the one that politicians hooking up the drug companies with my tax dollars works.

Now that we have talked about Ivermectin not saving Japan, let’s talk about the Safe and Effective vaccines.

What percentage of the infected are vaxxed or unvaxxed?

If only we had a control group.

Wait… what’s that you say? This just in!

We have a control group of an essentially 100% vaccinated population. Outstanding! And here we though the modern military was only good for taming our tranny in uniform fetish.

I bet they are so Safe and Effective, the caseload must be zero.

Ooooo… bet wrong.

Well let’s look at some numbers.

USFJ has ~54000 people. There were 3600 cases as of one week ago. The population is 100% vaccinated. 6.7% of the population is infected.

Japan has ~126,530,000 people. There are 141,620 cases as of yesterday (40% cases are fully vaccinated). The population is ~80% vaccinated. .11% of the population is infected.

You could see why I might think everybody is full of shìt, right? Right?

Don’t agree with my numbers? Let’s double them. Still can’t rationalize it all away. How about say I was ten times wrong. No? 30 times wrong? 60 times? Getting close.

But I’m not wrong. And the testing is not wrong. And the counting is not wrong. And there is nothing 60x wrong.

For some reason a fully vaccinated and healthy military population has 60 times the infection rate of an 80% vaccinated population with mixed levels of health.

Is nobody just a little bit curious?

Can any intelligent and rational person explain this or is it all going to be denial and avoidance?

liz
liz
2 years ago

Think Israel leads the world in covid cases right now. It’s a record for them, and they are the most vaccinated country on the planet.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/covid-in-israel-new-cases-break-yet-another-record-as-isolation-period-cut-1.10549118

Korean Man
Korean Man
2 years ago

What happened to “Factor-X”, this is a pen – superior clean Japanese genes that their media and their scientists said supposedly prevented genetically pure Japanese people from getting COVID?

Here’s the truth of it all. When they were getting 50 Covid cases for the entire country, just last month, they were testing around 1000 people per day, and they charged $200 per test. That had the intended effect of artificially lowered numbers.

Now that they put back the free tests somewhat, now they’re testing 140,000 people a day, with 32,000+ and rapidly climbing infections – an extremely high positive rate. This suggests if they increase the COVID tests as in Europe, the positive count will soar even much higher. In a perspective, South Korea tested 350,000 people yesterday and got 4000 positives. Yet Japan has 2.5 times South Korea’s population.

So why doesn’t Japan just stop testing COVID, and just pretend there are no infections, as they were doing recently? Because they can do so much to hide all the unexplained illnesses and deaths without causing an economic and medical collapse.

Last edited 2 years ago by Korean Man
Korean Person
Korean Person
2 years ago

Think Israel leads the world in covid cases right now. It’s a record for them, and they are the most vaccinated country on the planet.

Another attempt by the minions of setnaffa to twist the facts to their advantage.

The United States leads the world in Covid cases and the most vaccinated country on the planet is the United Arab Emirates.

Get your facts straight.

Moose Knuckle
Moose Knuckle
2 years ago

KM, why is it that you heavily criticize CH and Setnaffa for their supposed conspiratorial covid claims against the west as pure right wing nonsense yet apply the same logic as CH and Setnaffa when it comes go Japan?

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Why is KM so pro-Trump these days? His kvetching about the so-called “Covid vaccine” skeptics is amazing.

Granted, I voted for Trump over Cankles in 2016 and over Joey Leghairs in 2020; but I was never a fan of his rushing a vaccine, much less an experimental mRNA jab that needs to be repeated ad infinitum even before we know what the five and ten year consequences will be.

And we Know there will be consequences. Every medication, prescription and over-the-counter, has side effects. Some develop much later. And many even influence the growth of specific cancers.

I don’t trust Trump, nor the Medical-Industrial Complex bureaucracy, enough to subject my family to the jab… But KM sure does.

I can’t get it because of my earlier chemotherapy. But I wouldn’t have known that without specifically asking.

What about the others who never thought to ask? Or those who had other conditions that contraindicated the jab?

It’s still experimental, so Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson can’t he sued, even to help pay medical billed from the side-effects of the vaccine.

But the real Trumpsters, KM, KP, johnhenry, and others, will keep on pushing it.

Go ahead. Be Safe and Effective. Make Fauci’s day.

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
2 years ago

Or maybe Ivermectin has kept at 26,000…maybe without it cases would be at 52,000….show me proof I am wrong.

Korean Person
Korean Person
2 years ago

In what can be considered as a news making event, Dear Comrade Setnaffova has thrown his Messiah Trump under the bus.

And to top of it off, he blames the ones who do not agree with Trump and his supporters for his misguided beliefs.

I guess now we know what type person the Dear Comrade is, and if he can disavow his Messiah, what will stop him from disavowing his country and commiting treason by colluding with the Russians?

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Sad LP, obviously as delusional as Joey Puddingpants, thinks support of the “vaccines” is not proTrump and thinks it was Trump, not Puddinpants who destroyed the US Energy Industry so he could build up Russia’s influence in Europs, while also giving them a free shot at invading the Ukraine…

I am reminded of the “insult” scene from Mel Ferrer’s magnificent Cyrano where he ends up offering examples of how the poor effete pseudo-intellectual might have offered a competent insult but instead was mearly a man of letters. Three letters: A. S. S.

I’m nowhere near as competent to offer insult to our local feeble-minded trolls; but it’s an enjoyable scene”–even as redone by Steve Martin in Roxanne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1nYEH6EDwM

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

From the WSJ: https://archive.fo/OHS9q

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Awww… Our trolls don’t like Steve Martin…

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

GI may be right.

Apart from a seemingly influential recommendation, I can’t find any actual evidence of Ivermectin use.

That doesn’t mean that it isn’t being widely used… as it could be one of those things nobody talks about… but there is no open evidence.

Record skip: What kind of tinfoil hat stuff are you talking about “widely used” with no evidence? Yeah. Ritalin, Xanax, and diet pills are yours for the asking in Korea but you wouldn’t necessarily know it you were looking on the internet… or maybe even living in Korea. So. Yes. Ivermectin could be something doctors quietly provide but aren’t out making a big deal about because they don’t want international condemnation.

Or maybe it is:

– healthy population: not a lot of perfectly healthy 230 pound 9 year-olds to die

– high vaccination rate: not really higher than many other places with many cases (see USFJ and USFK with 100% vaccination rate… eventually somebody has to make an excuse for that).

– masking: masks don’t work, masks work, double masking works, now masks don’t work… again. We have come full circle. Only the cucks don’t grasp the levels of significance in this. But the reality is masks don’t do much and we have always known that. It is more of a visual thing so people don’t forget there is a pandemic and an easy way to spot the non-compliant.

– good hygiene: Japanese do very well in this area… though covid is more like chicken pox than hepatitis in how it spreads… not sure hygiene plays as big of roll as people would like to think.

– low ttesting: when people have no symptoms and don’t know they are sick and can’t spread the disease and it goes away in a couple weeks, the medical term is “well”. We can make the case numbers say anything we want if we test everybody with a test known for false positives. Testing is probably not even necessary. “If you show symptoms, isolate and stay away from grandma,” would probably be an ideal policy. Covid, cold, and flu could all be beat.

Soooo… no claims here about Ivermectin in Japan… but worthy to keep a lookout for it.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Here is something you can try…

Google: “イベルメクチン錠”

That would be “ivermectin pill”.

What do we get?

…a few pet shops selling horse paste.

…and a lot… a LOT… of people-grade Ivermectin for sale.

Couple this with some articles in Japanese explaining how the government is quite concerned that so many people are ordering untested and unapproved Ivermectin without a doctor being involved…

…and you might start wondering if maybe… just maybe… Ivermectin might play some part in keeping cases low.

Korean Man
Korean Man
2 years ago

Or maybe Ivermectin has kept at 26,000…maybe without it cases would be at 52,000….show me proof I am wrong.

Flyingsword, Japan confirmed 46,000 new COVID cases for yesterday alone. I just proved you wrong, what do you say now?

KM, why is it that you heavily criticize CH and Setnaffa for their supposed conspiratorial covid claims against the west as pure right wing nonsense yet apply the same logic as CH and Setnaffa when it comes go Japan?

Moose Knuckle, it’s one thing to say that an extremely corrupt abusive government which has a long history of fabrication of important numbers. For instance, the Japanese government got caught and admitted that they fabricated the size of Japan’s GDP. You’re comparing that to CH and Cancerman’s conspiracy theory that the world’s governments have colluded with each other to enslave and control the world’s population under the one-world government’s helm… well what do you think is more believable?

Korean Man
Korean Man
2 years ago

It is likely hardly anyone in Japan is taking Ivermectin and their prior low infection numbers is because of a healthy population, high vaccination rate, masking, good hygiene, and low testing.

Nope. It is because Japan does not do much COVID test compared to the West. Partly intentional (to make the government and country look better to the world than it really is), and partly due to lack of technology (tests and test results are transmitted through fax and stamp, telephone, floppy disks, and other analog technologies). And many COVID deaths are just written off as natural deaths or deaths by other diseases. This is possible in Japan because the Japanese government has a firm grip on their media (Japanese press freedom is ranked 66th in the world, below Tanzania), and the Japanese hospitals are turning away seriously sick patients. Some of those patients die at home. Those types of patients don’t get included in the COVID stats.

In other words, the level of national honesty and transparency are what are affecting the outcome.

Last edited 2 years ago by Korean Man
Flyingsword
Flyingsword
2 years ago

GI are you going to fund me going door to door in japan for an extensive study or will you just kowtow to approved propaganda outlets? Of of course nothing can be found as the overlords work hard to scrub the truth. But good for you to keep grabbing your ankles.

Tbonety1r_lives
2 years ago

approved propaganda outlets” says the crowd who get their “news” from sources like Newsmax, OAN, Infowars, Gateway Pundit etc.

LOL

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

tbone, can you – for once – address the issues flyingsword brings up instead of just spewing ad hominem?

Otherwise, you more closely resemble a chimpanzee throwing your own body wastes at people tossing you peanuts. You’re not doing your side any favors.

Of course, that’s not your goal, is it?

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Korean Man
Korean Man
2 years ago

GI are you going to fund me going door to door in japan for an extensive study or will you just kowtow to approved propaganda outlets? Of of course nothing can be found as the overlords work hard to scrub the truth. But good for you to keep grabbing your ankles.

Flyingsword, you said:

Or maybe Ivermectin has kept at 26,000…maybe without it cases would be at 52,000….show me proof I am wrong.

Japan’s daily COVID cases top 49,000, new record
Now, are you going to be mature and admit you were wrong?

Tbonety1r_lives
2 years ago

“GI are you going to fund me going door to door in japan for an extensive study or will you just kowtow to approved propaganda outlets? Of of course nothing can be found as the overlords work hard to scrub the truth. But good for you to keep grabbing your ankles.

Flyingsword, you said:

Or maybe Ivermectin has kept at 26,000…maybe without it cases would be at 52,000….show me proof I am wrong.

Japan’s daily COVID cases top 49,000, new record
Now, are you going to be mature and admit you were wrong?”

Don’t argue with the monkeys, they only repeat what they read on their “favorite” sites. LOL

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

So tbone really is KM. Good to know.

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
2 years ago

Setnaffa… disappointed you didn’t figure that out long ago.

You need to pick up a statistics book.

What is the chance of having two people that stupid?

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

CH, in my defense, they had not posted so nearly simultaneously before. And I had been busy with medical stuff until quite recently.

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