[areyousure]

> 115 new cases of COVID today in a country of 120 million during the Delta wave. It's a mystery I tell you. A complete mystery.

In case anyone is curious, Japan has done far fewer Covid tests per capita than somewhere like Namibia, a country with one-tenth the GDP per capita.

See also https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/asia/japan-elderly-... https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14382671

(Of note: some sources like https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/covi... claim Japan's intentional testing restrictions causally decreases the number of cases, by avoiding nosocomial infections.)

[TheProbes]

This article was from almost two years ago when the pandemic wasn't even going properly.

[areyousure]

The data I mentioned about testing per capita is through today. In concrete numbers, Japan has performed ~25 million tests and has a population of ~125 million.

There are THREE articles, and I chose them so that they spanned the past two years. The second article is from June 28, 2021 and the headline is "Testing at elderly care facilities expands, but at a snail’s pace".