Japan’s total population is 127 million. According to their local statistics, a total of 26.98 million people have been diagnosed with the epidemic in Japan, and the cumulative number of deaths is only about 53,000. At the same time, there are only about 482 severe patients.
This survey is an N-antibody survey conducted by the Japanese Red Cross in November 2022 based on volunteers aged 16 to 69 who have donated blood.
In other words, During these three years, the number of infected people in Japan only accounted for about 25% of the total population. How did the Japanese government do it without mandatory positive isolation or lockdown?
Japan is actually a relatively conservative country, because they also know that the impact of the virus is very large, so they did not choose to liberalize early like other countries, but slowly liberalized in March 2022. This kind of liberalization is not actually liberalization. It just means that compared with some cities, life is more convenient, but most cities are still closed.
In October 2022, Japan chose to fully liberalize the vaccine. At this time, their vaccination rate reached more than 80%, which is basically the same as our country.
Many people will definitely think that Japan is doing very well after liberalization. I can definitely tell that that is only on the surface. They don’t even publish data now, so this situation will naturally look better. But in fact, their epidemic situation is very serious.
According to information provided by the Internet, as of December 17, there were 158,383 new infections in Japan that day. The number of infections has exceeded 150,000 for five consecutive days, and the death toll today reached 264.
So after Japan chose to fully liberalize, although the economy did grow well, their number of infections increased sharply. I don’t know what their senior officials would think. So don’t just look at the surface of anything, you must look at the real situation behind it. Only in this way can you understand it very clearly.
It is estimated that life in Japan is not easy now. It can be said that it is a difficult choice whether to continue to block the epidemic or to allow the infection to continue.