Isolation periods will be abolished both for positive cases and close contacts. Masks to no longer be recommended indoors unless symptomatic or at risk. The downgrade to level 5 pathogen means the state no longer foots the medical bills
The reason for the shift is that Kishida has broken away from the neo-Keynesianism of his predecessors with its emphasis on investment in innovation and maximum employment. The ageing population and high population density will see death rates explode.
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Dr Satoshi Akima FRACP 『秋間聰』
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Yet there are doubts about whether Kishida is as committed a neo-Keynesian as Abe. Kishida sympathises with neoliberal fiscal austerity. This explains Japan's soaring death rate—the adoption of a laissez-faire attitude slowing technological innovation https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Comment/Is-Japan-s-Prime-Minister-Fumio-Kishida-a-Keynesian#…
Whether people will comply with orders to demask is uncertain but currently worn cloth and surgical masks are no longer adequate as viral evolution has made COVID aerosols too contagious to be stopped by anything less than an N95 respirator.
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The rational calculation has likely been factored in somewhere that it will cost less in the long run by “naturally” unburdening the state of its surfeit of an unproductive ageing population
I can't believe they're doing that at a time when CFRs are high.
It's again an attempt of governments to misinform the public, making them believe that the virus is finally safe. This is just so disappointing.
This is what Kishida sees and considers tackling debt to be his moral duty: “it's tough but it will be worse if we do not deal with this now”. Someone thinks we are naive to save lives by investing in technology instead of “saving the economy” through austerity.
This is so disappointing and depressing. The past few years every time I got really sad about our current state of pandemic affairs, I would think about all the people in Japan who wore masks. It used to give me a lot of hope.
News like this seems like strong evidence for the hypothesis that covid modifies host behavior. Given the evidence of the harm covid causes, there is no logical reason to allow unchecked spread. And yet...
It would be ok to do this if hospitals are not still turning away patients with fever over there. Health care system in Japan isn’t better than the us; it is differently messed up in different countries.
We already knew you couldn’t trust Thailand or China, but I thought Japan had more common sense. Very disappointing because all of them are walking around Bangkok without masks like nothing is happening.
How sad . We westerners always respected the Japanese culture of respecting and valuing their elder family members. Seems like they will now be a disposable group