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Tokyo reports 10,169 new

coronavirus cases;
nationwide tally 61,259
Feb. 24 | 06:46 pm JST | 19 Comments

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TOKYO —— The Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday reported 10,169 new
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By age group, 1,468 cases were in their 20s, 1,672 in their 30s, 1,636 in their 40s and 927 Tell us your thoughts about
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The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 81, up
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Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 61,259. After Tokyo, the prefectures National
with the most cases were Kanagawa (6,485), Saitama (5,710), Osaka (5,657), Aichi Feb. 24 | 06:40 am JST | 15 Comments
(4,375), Chiba (4,058), Hyogo (2,766), Fukuoka (2,667), Hokkaido (2,621), Kyoto
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(1,726), Ibaraki (1,273), Shizuoka (1,197), Nara (1,036), Shiga (806), Gifu (580), from listed Japan firms
Okayama (542), Ishikawa (539), Kumamoto (505), Gunma (504), Miyagi (471), Niigata hit record high in 2021
(456), Toyama (347), Nagano (333), Aomori (323), Oita (313), Iwate (305), Kagoshima
(294), Saga (283), Fukui (281), Fukushima (281), Kagawa (259), Yamaguchi (233), Feb. 24 | 04:35 pm JST | 10 Comments
Wakayama (226), Tokushima (195), Yamanashi (182), Yamagata (158) and Ehime (150). 45 killed in 3 months in
accidents while
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 206. clearing snow in Japan

Feb. 24 | 06:00 am JST | 14 Comments

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Jexan Feb. 24 | 05:13 pm JST

Omicron is circling the drain
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Steven Mccarthy Feb. 24 | 05:21 pm JST

Minimal testing from the holiday yesterday. Terrible news. Over 10,000 new cases in Tokyo , on a
holiday . Probably 1/3 of reality. Kids still leading the surge . Time for Kishida to put on his big boy
pants and make some hard but wise decisions. The economy has proven resilient. Still has time
to do the RIGHT and SAFE thing. Lock Japan down. All public transportation, restaurants, bars ,
malls, virtually everything except truly essential businesses , clinics, and hospitals. This inferno
known as omicron is burning outta control and is in FACT the deadliest variant of Covid in Japan
to date. And adding in that it’s also the most virulent has proven to be the deadliest of
combinations. No more children should be refused admission to a hospital s and sent home to
DIE. In fact , no one should be sent home or to some hotel to possibly die. Shut this place down
and give healthcare workers and hospitals a fair chance to recover. The healthcare system is
broken down.

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Foreigner In Tokyo Feb. 24 | 05:43 pm JST

This inferno known as omicron is burning outta control and is in FACT the deadliest variant
of Covid in Japan to date.

Has it occurred that when you have a larger sample, you get larger results? You don't look at the
actual severity of the virus and how damaging it is to people's health and longterm condition.
You don't seem to care that omicron reportedly doesn't target the pulmonary system which is
why it's less severe. You simply obsess over raw data and draw the most opportune conclusions
possible that suit an agenda.

It's wonderful that fearmongering takes precedent over the lives and livelihood of everyone else.
The entire world is starting to go back to normal, but some feel that it's more important to sit
home for another two years until the virus is gone, something that will clearly never happen.

So much talk about the hundreds of people who may have died here during the current wave,
but no compassion whatsoever for the untold numbers of people who work in the travel, service,
and amenities industries, all of whom continue to have their income sources destroyed by
draconian policies, assuming they're still in business to begin with. No compassion for parents
who have had their lives upended by school closures. No compassion for children who have lost
valuable years that will never be returned.

Take a good look around key areas in Tokyo like Shinjuku, especially Nishiguchi, and explain to
every single business that is now gone how more panic and fear is the solution.

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Sven Asai Feb. 24 | 05:48 pm JST

Yes, our lives and future prospects are restricted by corona, now the Ukraine-or-more crises and
afterwards when you think it’s getting better again they will beat out of you physically and
ideologically all the combustion motors, any energy usages and other consumption that is
slightly above the simplest ones just keeping your body functions alive. It’s all over and I guess
you know it. If not, you’ve just been told anyway.

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falseflagsteve Feb. 24 | 05:50 pm JST

Numbers shooting down, double plus good

Out in Namba at present enjoying a. Burger with my partner. Very busy, life as normal so to
speak. Restrictions obviously not required. As Foreigner said, businesses need us and our
support, something I did locally the last two years.

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vendingmachinemusic Feb. 24 | 06:05 pm JST

Lock down Japan? No way. Wear a mask, sanitize and live your life.

who going to Jvogue tonight?

see you there!

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stickman1760 Feb. 24 | 06:15 pm JST

@steven you gotta be kidding. No country anywhere is going to lock down at this stage. Japan’s
economy has hung precisely because there was no hard lock down. That ship has sailed man.
Wake up.

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Steven Mccarthy Feb. 24 | 06:28 pm JST

If businesses that over charged year in year out here , failed because of poor money
management; shame on them . The general public has had to pull through without trillions in
corporate welfare to prop them up . And the only numbers “shooting down “ are the number of
ambulances and hospital beds available for people that should NOT be forced to go DIE at
home . I noticed y’all missed that . I understand facts annoy people that constantly spread
patently false and misleading information near daily .

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CommodoreFlag Feb. 24 | 06:42 pm JST

I understand facts annoy people that constantly spread patently false and misleading
information near daily .

But the thing is you don't cite any facts. You just type things in capital letters. But that doesn't
make what you say a "FACT".

If you were serious about wanting a lockdown (I don't actually think you are), you could possibly
try make a case saying that it would save x many lives, cause disruption for x number of weeks,
and shorten the prevalence of omicron by x number of days.

The case has already been made here that lockdowns are an exercise in futility and madness.

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hattorikun Feb. 24 | 07:01 pm JST

“Lock down Japan? No way. Wear a mask, sanitize and live your life.”

not that I take the risk lightly but you for one shouldn’t bother replying to that Lock-Japan-Down
guy… He has been posting relentlessly everyday, indicating something like we are all dying. We
are not. Yes I agree with you, wear a mask wear necessary. Sanitize. live your life.

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TokyoJoe Feb. 24 | 07:24 pm JST

down 7,695 from last Thursday.

Fantastic!

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Waywardnihon Feb. 24 | 07:28 pm JST

businesses need us and our support, something I did locally the last two years.

While I have sympathy on a personal level for small business owners and their families who have
suffered fiscally, in my opinion it is a failing of the larger economic structure and business
practices which have for decades operated in such a way as to make it impossible to survive an
entirely predictable, and indeed ultimately inevitable, pandemic. It is not individuals'
responsibility to risk even mild illness, let alone potentially deadly ones, to support the economy.
It is the reoccurring theme of the free market advocates; when there is money to be made don't
you dare regulate me, when the proverbial hits the fan, you have to bail us out. Similarly, I even
take issue with the government giving too great a weight to 'saving the economy'. Certainly,
citizens have some interest in saving business, but for the vast majority, as waged or salaried
employees, we will suffer from economic downturn most severely even despite the capital
owners receiving support, all the while having to sacrifice our health or even our loved ones
lives. When I do participate in democracy, my primary interest is protecting my human needs, not
the economic interests of those who buy into a system designed to exploit me and which refuse
to build resilience against reality.

Anyway, this is somewhat off topic so I imagine my borderline socialist rant will be removed soon
enough. Just wanted to scream into the void.

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kurisupisu Feb. 24 | 07:42 pm JST

Omicron is no big deal.

If it were then people would be dropping in the streets.

They aren’t so it isn’t…

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as_the_crow_flies Feb. 24 | 07:59 pm JST

Omicron is no big deal. If it were then people would be dropping in the streets.

206 deaths were recorded today. But it's 'no big deal' because they didn't die on the streets.
Riiight. The fact that Omicron is causing record deaths doesn't seem to bother some people.

The damage caused by a particular virus is a combination of how infectious it is, and how severe
illness it tends to cause. Omicron is demonstrating that, as epidemiologists pointed out before
this wave, a massively more infectious variant that tends to cause milder symptoms will still tend
to cause more deaths and severe illness, even though a larger percentage of the infected
experience mild symptoms. It is burdening local health centres, hospitals, emergency services,
care homes, all of which are also likely to be causing more non-Covid deaths too, because the
system is overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

This pandemic has sadly exposed scary levels of empathy deficit in the population.

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Steven Mccarthy Feb. 24 | 08:00 pm JST

You’re kinda right Kuri-Chan. They’re not dropping in the streets . Nope. Instead they’re
“dropping” at home , in hotels , in ambulances if they’re lucky , and for the very fortunate few…
the hospitals. Omicron is the deadliest and most virulent variant of Covid in Japan to date. Not
an opinion. Just a fact .

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Waywardnihon Feb. 24 | 08:06 pm JST

So many on this forum like to berate others for lack of facts or analysis. Here is some cold
analysis based on data sourced from Toyokeizai. This data is provided for context and for you to
draw your own conclusions.

Average age of covid related death, in Japan, as of February 15:

70.15 - 76.23 years old (data is provided in ranges, so this range is reflective of the upper and
lower numbers).

First three weeks of February as percentage of total deaths:

**14.58%** (in 2.87% of the total period since the first covid related death in Japan on February
21st, 2020)

First three weeks of February as percentage of total positive test results:

37.13%

For the first three weeks of February, there was a covid related death every 10 minutes on
average.

CFR for the first three weeks of February:

0.18

CFR for the pandemic in Japan to date:

0.48

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theResident Feb. 24 | 08:39 pm JST

Two years we've got through this @Steven Mccarthy... And now, yes NOW you want a full
lockdown?Totally out of touch, totally unfeasible and it would totally destroy the economy. I'd
suggest be happier living in China. Moving around to whichever city is currently locked down.

Delusional.

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ian Feb. 24 | 09:00 pm JST

We're having record highs in daily deaths and hospitalizations but of course it doesn't register in
the minds of idiots, who, expectedly, fail to grasp the seriousness of the situation and continue to
say it's nothing to be concerned about.

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