What Japan Got Right About How Covid-19 Spreads.

And Japan did not use the much-beloved-by-liberals lockdown strategy at all.

Although Japan declared certain periods of the pandemic states of emergency, that equated to not much more than strongly worded warnings and some travel restrictions for residents. (Japan has prohibited foreign tourists from entering the country.) Drastic measures, such as lockdowns, were never taken because the goal was always to find ways to live with Covid-19. (Japanese law also does not allow for lockdowns, so the country could not have declared them even if we had thought them necessary.)

This was always the correct Covid approach to avoid vast harm. Interesting, though, that the lib side went full authoritarian (more or less successfully in various places), and how that didn’t actually help very much in most areas it was attempted — especially considering the incalculable harm and trauma it caused.

Hard to explain. Very hard to explain.