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Japan was feared to be the next US or Italy. Instead their coronavirus success is a puzzling 'mystery'
ABC Australia ^ | May 22, 2020 | Jake Sturmer and Yumi Asada

Posted on 05/23/2020 3:58:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

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To: politicianslie

Spread that far and wide. Dems are utter scum, and that fact needs to become more widely known among the electorate.


41 posted on 05/23/2020 5:01:17 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr

I believe you are 100% correct.


42 posted on 05/23/2020 5:02:24 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Ancesthntr

It started in China.

That is why.


43 posted on 05/23/2020 5:04:33 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Maybe the Japanese have good immune systems, they walk a lot and eat good. It’s a flu not ebola.


44 posted on 05/23/2020 5:06:08 PM PDT by The Sentient Sheep
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To: The Sentient Sheep

They seem to be very science-minded.

Maybe their high school health ed classes do not focus on how to have anal sex correctly and focus on nutrition instead.


45 posted on 05/23/2020 5:08:51 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

The bowing thing makes a lot of sense.

No germs are passed hand to hand and it is good for the stomach and back muscles.


46 posted on 05/23/2020 5:11:50 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: MinorityRepublican

“They shut down their borders after they saw what was happening in the rest of the world.”

Always learn from other’s mistakes so you don’t have to redo them.


47 posted on 05/23/2020 5:14:29 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Mr Rogers

Masks.

For real. Everyone wears one, for four months.

Now (some) no longer wear masks. But many, many do.


48 posted on 05/23/2020 5:15:29 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Bonemaker

And perveted as all get out. In a good way for both.


49 posted on 05/23/2020 5:16:24 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: CheshireTheCat

A very good point Chehire. Incorrect anal sex can be life threatening I hear though....


50 posted on 05/23/2020 5:17:43 PM PDT by The Sentient Sheep
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To: BenLurkin

Death rate in Italy is 14%. In the US it is 6%.

While we get all the press, it’s not nearly as bad as Italy (and both have been steadily climbing since March when I started tracking this). And NY became the capital of bad in the last month. It and a few others throw off the curve.


51 posted on 05/23/2020 5:20:55 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Japan is a closed society ... very few "foreigners" and mixed marriages.

Their culture is not oppressive (to them) and is intact.

They have a fairly keen sense of respect and cleanliness.

I think the countries that have more "infection" problems are the ones that have a lot of different people .... the US SHOULD be more "diseased" than others, but to our advantage, we've been inoculating and USDA (and others) interfering in most all our food production and imports.

52 posted on 05/23/2020 5:26:12 PM PDT by knarf
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To: CheshireTheCat

I just watched NHK news, and Tokyo had TWO Wuflu deaths yesterday.

We’re still talking about plateauing here in the DC area, maybe declining a little, and Tokyo is bottoming out.


53 posted on 05/23/2020 5:34:08 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: CheshireTheCat

They eat a lot of fish: vitamin D rich. They eat seaweed: fairly high in zinc. Also, a relatively low rate of testing, so asymptomatic and mild cases may never be recorded when people shrug them off due to possible diet-aided resistance. And when told to wear masks, they are very obedient and wear masks.


54 posted on 05/23/2020 5:34:47 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: CheshireTheCat

That’s what I was thinking. Lots of green tea, lots of shellfish and other foods rich in zinc. Their food is their medicine.


55 posted on 05/23/2020 5:36:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Philosophy isa battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Wittgenstein)
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To: fhayek
Vitamin D. Black skin does not absorb vitamin D from sunlight very well, hence the overrepresentation of blacks coming down with Coronavirus. No, its not racism. (Not sure how well orange skin perform...). And if you ask me why the Chinese had so much more incidence of the disease than Japan did, I will tell you...

No racism. Two of my children are black, and we live in sunny Phoenix. My wife still gives them Vitamin D, and me too, as I avoid the outdoors by habit.
56 posted on 05/23/2020 5:36:15 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: CheshireTheCat

1. The don’t warehouse their elderly and have a long tradition of keeping their elders in the family home.
2. Their diet contains shellfish, mushrooms, green vegetables, and beef that contain high levels of zinc.
3. They have a lower incidence of diabetes and obesity.
4. Salmon, soy, kale, mushrooms, and oysters are also good sources of vitamin D which many Americans are deficient in. Vitamin D along with zinc has been cited as important nutrients for a strong immune system.


57 posted on 05/23/2020 5:40:08 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: Grognard49

Don’t overdo it. And there is no info regarding this virus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc#Precautions


58 posted on 05/23/2020 5:40:48 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: CheshireTheCat

The Japanese are FAR more compliant to social distancing and mask wearing. And hygiene.

This is both a cultural thing and the result of a SARS scare several years ago.

The US is not compliant. And, generally speaking, our hygiene sucks.


59 posted on 05/23/2020 5:43:21 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Japan is monocultural, we are not.


60 posted on 05/23/2020 5:44:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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