petersamou
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Even south korea didn't mass test. They have a population of 52million and ran around 360k tests so far. What they did was aggressively track potential contacts of infected people and test those. This is the same approach Japan does.
I am sorry but this is a load of nonsense. Claiming that Japan is doing the same as South Korea is just flat wrong. South Korea policy has been to test the largest amount of people they can in order to detect asymptotic people and isolate them. Japan is not doing that whatsoever.
Not saying that Japan did everything perfectly, but they did comparatively well. If the virus was running wild here like in Italy/Spain/France or New York, they wouldn't be able to hide that.
This is not true since it may be possible that Japan is actually completely missing the extent of the infection since like in South Korea, a lot of asymptotic people may be carrying the virus. The available data in Japan are just not enough in order to say whether or not they did well. They aren't producing enough data, plain and simple. In any case, the comparison with Italy/Spain/France makes also little sense because those countries are seeing a large amount of people with serious/critical conditions which was actually was not seen in other countries like South Korea.