Japan is completely different culturally from the USA — they have strong no-touching culture, they wear masks and gloves and they have high trust in their government and high obedience to authority.
That’s the opposite of the USA.
you can’t compare the two
Compare the reaction of the Japanese people to the last Tsunami or Fukishima nuclear disasters with the reaction of the people of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
The Japanese people lined up, cleaned up and took care of business. There was never any thought of looting or taking advantage of a bad situation.
On the other hand, we can all remember the locals of NO, Heineken Man, organized gangs from other states going in to rob jewelry stores. People looting and grabbing big screen TVs. They should have been shot on site.
I've thought since this thing started that the Japanese culture should be fairly well insulated from physical transmission vectors. The no-touching thing is baked in pretty much from birth. I imagine that Japanese tourists are freaked out my all the kissing and stuff involved in Italian culture. :-)
So you would rather be in locked down New York where 600+ are dropping dead every day. As apposed to not locked down Japan were 95 have died in total?
Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but go with it.