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What do I think? I don't understand why people are not looking at the US state of Florida, which stopped this nonsense about a year and a half ago. Why aren't these buffoons using Florida as a reference? Apart from the recent hurricane, Florida has been booming on all fronts. One simply can go to a live stream of Florida and see people walking the streets smiling and unmasked. People can also see this by simply putting on a Major League Baseball game. And yes, the fans are allowed to cheer. Is COVID smart enough to recognize political borders? Apparently so. This is a leadership problem. If you have poor leaders, the only thing to do is to become one yourself.

In regard to Eric Topol? For some people it's a publish-or-perish lifestyle.

I would also like to mention that there are now PCR test gift cards at convenience stores. It's time to start looking for a parallel economy.

I have been thinking about making a business card for those that ask me why I don't wear a mask. It will say:

"Why don't I wear a mask? I am not a dumb, soulless brainwashed moron. I can think for myself. Any questions?"

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Guy Gin, PLEASE consider diet. The Japanese diet consists of numerous products consumed on a daily basis that address inflammation and other initial symptoms of SARS CoV-2 and that are known to support immune health. I believe you know that and it does a lot to explain the outcomes you graphed. Additionally, the US population in its entirety experienced tremendous stress and anxiety for a substantially longer period of time than Japan, which can easily cause premature death.

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I wrote a post a few months ago about how westerners could benefit from copying Japanese dietary habits. Check out the paper I cite that compares Japanese and American food consumption amounts.

https://guygin.substack.com/p/copying-the-japanese-masks-microbes

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While this may be true, and probably is to at least some degree, I chalk up the differences in numbers to the differences in scales used to assess which are and are not covid deaths. Much of the US casts an extremely wide net as it catches “covid deaths”.

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If you look all over south-east Asia, you find that before the Delta variant of covid, people weren't getting sick. This is as true in places where masking was everywhere, in places where there was no masking, and in places where there was masking in the cities but not in the countryside. People in south-east Asia just weren't getting sick. And then delta showed up, and people began getting sick with it. Whatever was protecting them before, wasn't working any more.

One hypothesis is that the people in south-east asia had previously been infected with a different corona virus, one that went unnoticed at the time, and that prior infection with this unidentified disease provided good immunity against the earliest variants of sars-covid-2, but not later ones. But whatever caused it, the effect is there. There is strong evidence that Omicron is a much less deadly disease than the earlier strains. It is widely believed that Delta too is less deadly than previous versions, but I do not know how strong the evidence for that is. This will explain a certain amount of the difference -- the Japanese were protected against the most severe version of the disease.

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Hiya,

No, I don't agree with him. Death rates are purely due to the measures imposed in a country; forced ventilation, midazlolam here, remdesivir in the states, loneliness and despair; which is why the virus seemed to change or stop at political borders. There. Is. No. Covid. https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing

https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/x-ray-crystallography-and-3d-computer

Jo

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Good point. Obvious but good: Like pollution, viruses do not recognize political borders.

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so the deaths aren't caused by a virus!

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More likely comorbidities. According to the CDC, 75% of the deceased had 4 or more comorbidities. 94% had 2 or more.

In my neighborhood, there are a vaccine center and 2 PCR testing sites. Approximately 1000 people a day die from cancer in Japan but I have yet to see an cancer-testing facility in the neighborhood. That cancer death rate will increase because everyone is focusing on COVID. Masks may be a cause.

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yes except they are not COmorbidites, they are just morbidities!

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Yes. Life is also a morbidity because humans or mortal so life is precious. Some people are not aware of this. If they were, would they wear the mask?

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As you obviously know, masks very well indeed may play a part. They are not benign.

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I agree. Treatment protocols are the key. Also I may be wrong but IVM although not recommended is permitted to be used in Japan w/o risk of loss of license. IVM was discovered by Japanese scientists working for Merck.

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IVM is not fully banned in the States either. It usage is warned against in Japan. AND, it is well nigh impossible for a MD in Japan to lose their license. That does not mean there are not controls, however. But even those in the Staes and elsewhere that promote IVN use it in conjunction with other medications. I may be wrong, but I am not aware of a single doctor saying IVN on its own is effective against Covid-19.

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The difference is in US many pharmacies refuse to fill IVM prescriptions issued by Doctors for COVID and Doctors are prohibited in many hospitals from prescribing it , and those with private practice risk losing their license by Pharma controlled medical boards. That said many were able to get it via online pharmacies and at smaller local pharmacies

IVM is effective on its own when used early on those with mild symptoms. Plenty of studies showing this. With more serious symptoms other drugs are required.

In Japan IVM increased starting September 2021 due to recommendation of the head of Tokyo Health Department and deaths started dropping soon after. At the National level they still warned against it because Japan is basically still a US occupied country

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As I see it, not much difference. Yes, some areas of the States outright banned it and there are even reports of private purchases being seized by customs. I can tell you that at least several med schools in Japan, and I can not believe many differ, are completely on board for all the restrictions against covid and unauthorized treatments.

The similarities are that in both countries, it is not authorized for use. In both countries there is strong opposition to its use but it is not banned at the national level. In both countries, there are those who are openly calling for its use against covid and a few actually prescribing it and unknowable numbers of people finding ways to get it on their own.

I am suspicious of any numbers given in regards to any aspect of the panic. There is not a single universally accepted definition of the basics, such as what is a covid case and what is a covid death within single countries not to mention internationally. Even within smaller jurisdictions there are different scales being used and they have changed scales over the course of the past 2 1/2 years. Additionally, Japan has a long history of playing down the numbers of statistics that make it look less than wonderful. Thus, I do not trust any numbers coming from Japan on most anything.

In short, garbage in=garbage out. All the stats given are based upon garbage data and are thus garbage.

Then we have the issue of prohibition. How do you know many doctors in Japan are not prohibited from prescribing IVN?

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I agree, without good data its hard to draw conclusions. Both countries probably have data on how many doses of IVM are prescribed monthly (for all reasons) but thats not released or its behind a payroll. No doubt the numbers show a jump sometime in 2021.

Then we have to question the validity of COVID DEATH DATA.

In Taiwan we had almost no COVID deaths or Excess Deaths until May 2021 when vaccines were rolled out. Both spiked T same time

In 2021 - 93% of Excess Deaths were non Covid. In 2022 about 50% of Excess Deaths were COVID, and 90% of total COVID deaths and 2/3 of Excess Deaths came in 2022 when boosters were rolled out

It might be authorities can hide COVID deaths by not calling them COVID deaths. Thats more likely if nobody is tracking Excess Deaths.

Overall, since May 2021 Taiwan has 33,000 excess deaths and 2/3 are not COVID. So either a lot of COVID DEATHS are being hidden to make COVID measures look good or the vaccines are killing a lot of people, or some combination

I don’t know about Japanese Excess Deaths.

There is also a theory that BCG vaccinations are protective against COVID. In which case the Excess Deaths are due to Vaccines or some combination of Vaccines and treatment protocols

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Excess deaths are not as useful, IMO, as it once was in determine the actual toll of a disease. The world has never undertaken the insane measures we have for covid. These measures are not without deadly consequences and unless effects are taken to remove them form the over all excess deaths count, this number too is garbage. Suicides have spiked worldwide during the panic. In the US, substance abuse deaths have shot up. The US is also suffering a unique increase in homicide during the panic years. Large numbers of people in various nations have died as a result of hospitals turning away all except covid and emergency patients. Then we have the those who have caught disease that they might not have if they had not lived in isolation for extended periods of time allowing their once robust immune systems to weaken to the point of allowing once easily to defeat diseases to take hold.

In the US, we had this:

Dr. Birx, in a nationally televised press conference said that for the first time we were counting not only those who died of it but also those who died with it. At an April 7 news conference, Deborah Birx, MD, the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, said, "There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem -- some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now ... if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death."

In April 2020, the Illinois (The 5th most populous State of the Union) Director of Public Health Dr. Ngozi Ezike told a coronavirus news briefing that the state’s COVID-19 death toll was counting those who died of “a clear alternate cause” but had the virus at the same time.

“It means, technically even if you died of clear alternate cause, but you had Covid at the same time, it’s still listed as a Covid death.”

“So, everyone who's listed as a COVID death doesn't mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death,” she said.

Thus, I strongly believe that all the numbers being used are just plain old garbage.

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Hi, what does IVM treat? It merely suppresses inflammation and therefore symptoms of the body trying to heal itself. It's not curing anything.

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The targets of activity of ivermectin can be divided into the following four groups:

A. Direct action on SARS-CoV-2

Level 1: Action on SARS-CoV-2 cell entry.

Level 2: Action on importin (IMP) superfamily.

Level 3: Action as an ionophore.

B. Action on host targets important for viral replication

Level 4: Action as an antiviral.

Level 5: Action on viral replication and assembly.

Level 6: Action on posttranslational processing of viral polyproteins.

Level 7: Action on karyopherin (KPNA/KPNB) receptors.

C. Action on host targets important for inflammation

Level 8: Action on interferon (INF) levels.

Level 9: Action on Toll-like receptors (TLRs).

Level 10: Action on nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway.

Level 11: Action on the JAK-STAT pathway, PAI-1, that could be involved with COVID-19 sequalae.

Level 12: Action on P21 activated kinase 1 (PAK1).

Level 13: Action on interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels.

Level 14: Action on allosteric modulation of P2X4 receptor.

Level 15: Action on high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1).

Level 16: Action as an immunomodulator on lung tissue and olfaction.

Level 17: Action as an anti-inflammatory.

D. Action on other host targets

Level 18: Action on plasmin and annexin A2.

Level 19: Action on CD 147 on the red blood cell (RBC).

Level 20: Action on mitochondrial ATP under hypoxia on cardiac function.

The direct “antiviral targets” may be useful in the early stages while the anti-inflammatory targets might be addressed in the later stages of the disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8688140/

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Hiya,

thank you.

You are presupposing evidence for SARS 2 and its infection of cells; I see none https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing

Jo

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Look harder.

Thanks for the link. I will respond when I get a chance. In the mean time

https://pete843.substack.com/p/are-viruses-real

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Hiya,

last link I promise and if you only read one please read this one https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-intellectual-freedom based on the impeccable logic of the Perth group on HIV which is how I got a handle on the methods used in the non science of virology - mostly importantly the lack of control experiments. Looking at HIV/AIDS it is somehow easier to see how we have all been fooled over the real nature of disease using the benefit of hindsight.

thanks

Jo

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Topol is too stupid or corrupted to understand that Japan used ivermectin to get the job done.

https://vinuarumugham.substack.com/p/pharma-conflicted-washington-post

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Actually, IVM isn’t recognised as a Covid medication or widely used in Japan. My next post will cover this misunderstanding.

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It is widely used, please see:

https://vinuarumugham.substack.com/p/four-major-crimes-enabled-the-covid

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IVM is used by some doctors and medical institutions, but its use is not widespread.

https://guygin.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-widespread-ivermectin

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Sorry, but Dr. Topol was wrong on just about everything. He just doesn't understand the medical or physical science behind the transmission of a 100nm virus particle; nor does he understand that at least 1/3 of the people are protected by a term I coined, "immunity-in-place".

Anyone who believes masks significantly slow the spread of this virus needs to examine their cognitive functioning. It's all in my book "Heroes and Villains: The COVID-19 Book of Lists". You and Topol are both listed, Guy Gin. (on opposite ends of the ledger, I might add). If you want to do a Substack on the book, please contact me. It is a very important book. And I'd love to meet you. I was SHOCKED at how little the Japanese doctors and politicians understood about this. The answer wasn't masks. It was the superior endothelial health of the Japanese. I'll explain if we do the story. PS my book can be found at heroesandvillainsbooks.com

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If you’re in Tokyo, let me know. I assume you got my email last week?

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I never got an email from you; at least one that I ever saw. Your posts have been great. I ranked you very highly and among some real stars. I think it will increase your readership (subscribers) tremendously as the book gains traction. I'll let you know if I can get to Tokyo on my way back to VN and Cambodia. heroesandvillainsbooks.com please take a look around the site.

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Read Denis Rancourt’s paper. Here he is being interviewed by Ryan Cristián:

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/denis-rancourt-interview-data-proves-covid-19-actually-illusion/

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Sorry, wished to add this in my previous comment but forgot. I am not sure if your date on the reopening of schools is correct. I believe they started back in June 2020. If I recall correctly, June 15th was my child’s first day at elementary school. True, different schools started back at different times but when we brought him to school for his first day, news crews were everywhere as his was the first school to reopen for in person instruction in the country. As I type this, I wonder if his was the first elementary school or perhaps the first, 1st grade school. I was made to understand that his was THE first in the nation to reopen for in person instruction. As an aside, I can tell you from my employment situation that at least one med. university and its nursing school are still on line for at least some classes.

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The earliest reopenings were in Aomori and Tottori in early May 2020 during the first state of emergency. Most prefectures reopened schools as the SoE was lifted in May, but schools didn't reopen in Greater Tokyo till June.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/05/770242811ab7-schools-reopen-in-some-parts-of-japan-after-pandemic-shutdown.html

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I guess his must have been the first in the Tokyo area. Thanks for the correction and the link.

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No problem. I've added a link to the article in the post for any other Kanto residents who remember schools being closed in May.

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For me it was the memory of the news crews and seeing my kid and their friends on NHK news that had me thinking his was the first nationwide to start that school year. But, it could just as easily have been that his was the first in the Kanto region of perhaps and even smaller geographic area.

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Topol is a punk! I would not believe him if had said the Sun will rise tomorrow.

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Didn’t Japan use ivermectin, before it was banned? Didn’t Abe Shinzo get assisnated for his anti vaxx sentiments? Wasn’t ivermectin discovered by a Japanese scientist, who was then awarded a Nobel prize a number of years ago?

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IVM has never been officially recognised as a Covid treatment in Japan. Lots of people seem to be confused by the head of the Tokyo Medical Association (a private org with no actual power) saying nice things about it in 2021.

Abe wasn’t anti-vax and had been out of office for 2 years before he was killed. Some Japanese conspiracy theorists think he was killed to sever relations with Russia since he had a good relationship with Putin, but nobody in Japan thinks the assassination had anything to do with the jabs.

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I believe your are correct about Ivermectin. If this is true, Japan may be in serious trouble because of informed consent. Not informing patients about may also violate the Nuremberg Code. By the way, I have mentioned the Nuremberg code about 175 times in the past year. That should never happen.

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The informed consent issue is not unique to Japan. Those in the States, I would wager, were less informed that at least I was upon getting the shot here in Tokyo.

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You have really inspired me to look into the origins IVM and Satoshi Omura.

Here's my critic of his paper on this Japanese wonder drug https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/ivermectin

$4 billion worth of drugs being donated by Merck to Africans for biannual prophylactic treatment for river blindness, though there's no evidence that this mass preventative treatment works. Not suspicious at all

Jo

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Hiya,

I am very wary of the Nobel prize, yes Satoshi Omura was awarded it for allegedly treating tropical diseases with it, but mostly for services to the infectious disease narrative.

The Nobel prize was also to Monatagnier for HIV, not shown exist let alone be infectious https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-intellectual-freedom

Prusiner for prions (the 'i' stands for infectious proteins) that are not infectious https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/prions-the-next-scamdemic

Marshall for helicobacter that doesn't cause ulcer https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/the-story-of-helicobacter-pylori

Yersin was nominated for it for culturing Yersina pestis said to cause the Black Death, although there's no evidence that it did https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/the-black-death-killed-50-of-the

So, the major outlier is of course Kary Mullis, to whom they really had to give, though I bet they really didn't want to!

Jo

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Thanks for this, I followed the Japan story and was waiting for our western governements/scientists to perk up and start asking themselves about why the difference, and indeed in looking at other countries who were doing better for best practice reasons. Instead there was deliberate ignoring of it and silence - which tells us a lot! I am not surprised that the was "explained away" by the likes of Topol doing a hatchet job!

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First, anyone who claims masks had any positive impact upon the pandemic should not be taken seriously on any subject regardless of whatever heights in their profession they have previously obtained. Second, he is guilt of the same nonsense that all these “experts” have engaged in of late; comparing measurements form different scales as if they used the same scale. As you have pointed out earlier, there is more than one scale being used to determine which are and are not Covid deaths in Japan. There are even more in the States with the feds using an extremely broad criterium unique to covid. Either this Bozo knows this and is lying or he doesn’t know this which means he has not performed his due diligence. Either way, I hope he was paid well because he has shot his creditability all to hell. Whatever this clown writes from now on does not rate even a glance as it is garbage. Garbage in=garbage out.

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