Why is Japan's death toll from the virus so low?

krispy kremlin._._._._. wrote:

4. The foreign aid of this country keeps sub-Sahara Africa alive (from AIDS) and feeds large swathes of other countries. If we stopped sending antivirals to Africa (and no one else stepped in), it is estimated that 30-50% of the population of Africa would be dead in 5 years. Weird coming from such a racist country....

It's best for earth to be purified from time to time from this great predator called "human". Don't you think?

The plague did-it in the middle ages killing hundred of thousand of populations.

There are TONS of reasons, and the combination of them all is the likely reason:

1) NO issues with wearing masks -- they have been doing this for years for other things.

2) OLDER people are not as fat as Americans, BUT that is becoming increasingly not as true for the younger population there.

3) Biology.

In a real pandemic we would be seeing deaths distributed throughout the age spectrum and literally people dying at work, in the streets, at home, etc.. This bug takes those the edge of life (aged and frail, obese with comorbidities). This overall episode (accepting govt figures which in fact are suspect) ranks at #8 in mortality just for the last 30 years....a tough flu year except the flu kills the young.

Basically this is a referendum on a population's obesity, age structure, and diabetes prevalence. Hence African nations are virtually unscathed and will remain so, whereas India (highest diabetes rate) is in deep trouble. Japan only has to deal with elderly effectively, which is what they clearly can do.

krispy kremlin._._._._. wrote:

With this understanding, what's there to be laughing at?

That despite us being such a high and mighty country we absolutely failed at controlling the disease in our own territory. That is what I meant by my previous comment.

Monkeys Skyping wrote:

ehwr wrote:

Using your own tactics, please provide a link proving that. Oh, for every country in the world.

Generally in science, you can't prove the absence of evidence, but you can disprove the assertion by finding a significant counterexample. In this case, one could in principle counter the claim by showing unexplained significantly poor correlation between excess deaths and COVID deaths. Let me know what you find.

Excess death data for a bunch of countries is available here:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker

Covid death data for most countries is nicely tabulated here:

https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data/jhu/new_deaths.csv

You scared them all off, it seems

Eating raw fish builds your immune system

Lhotse wrote:

In a real pandemic we would be seeing deaths distributed throughout the age spectrum and literally people dying at work, in the streets, at home, etc.. This bug takes those the edge of life (aged and frail, obese with comorbidities). This overall episode (accepting govt figures which in fact are suspect) ranks at #8 in mortality just for the last 30 years....a tough flu year except the flu kills the young.

Basically this is a referendum on a population's obesity, age structure, and diabetes prevalence. Hence African nations are virtually unscathed and will remain so, whereas India (highest diabetes rate) is in deep trouble. Japan only has to deal with elderly effectively, which is what they clearly can do.

Thus, a unique bioweapon that thins the herd of the weak and enslaves the remainder through fear. Genius.

Jenner for Gov wrote:

Simple: preexisting natural immunity.

If that was the reason, why are Asian Americans (who're mainly of East Asian descent) more likely to die of the virus than White Americans?

"But as another wave of infections sweeps across the country this fall, losses among racial and ethnic minorities remain disproportionately large. Black Americans were 37 percent more likely to die than Whites, after controlling for age, sex and mortality rates over time. Asians were 53 percent more likely to die; Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, 26 percent more likely to die; Hispanics, 16 percent more likely to die."

bc it is an island country

CopperRunner wrote:

Because they have been smart, and are overall significantly more healthy than most countries.

Yep, I was thinking along these lines and summed it up as discipline. They have more discipline in their diets. More disciple to follow rules. Probably not a huge amount of "Karens" in Japan.

3% obesity rate

The most important factor.

USA with their tipping the scales at 7/10 overfat makes it very clear.