© Kyodo News via AP, FileIn this Sept. 13, 2021, file photo, a woman receives the first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as others wait for their turn in front of pachinko pinball machines at the pachinko parlor Freedom in Osaka, western Japan. Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Case numbers are way down, but experts worry that without knowing how exactly it cut cases so drastically, the nation may be in store for another devastating wave like during the summer.
Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo, with caseloads in the densely populated capital now routinely below 100, an 11-month low.
The bars are packed, the trains are crowded, and the mood is celebratory, despite a general bafflement over what, exactly, is behind the sharp drop.
Japan, unlike other places in Europe and Asia, has never had anything close to a lockdown, just a series of relatively toothless states of emergency.
Comment: Part of the reason for this is that it's actually against Japan's constitution to lockdown and they can only 'request the public's cooperation'; obviously violating citizens rights didn't stop countries in the West.
Note, this also goes to show that the massively destructive lockdowns enforced across much of the planet were totally unnecessary.
Comment: Despite the eventual 'successful' vaccine roll out compromising people's immune system, it may be that we're still able to detect any benefit that delaying the vaccine roll out had, as well as the numerous negative repercussions that come with them, that we've seen elsewhere in countries that rolled out earlier:
- The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19
- Japan suspects metallic contaminant in Moderna vaccines, issues recall of 1.6 MILLION doses
- Pfizer vaccine in Israel: Mortality rate 'hundreds of times greater in vaccinated young people'
And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?