After three booster campaigns in 2022, the Japanese are now in a league of their own among mRNA consuming countries, administering far more boosters than countries that had far more coercive vax campaigns.
A friend contracted the dreaded Kraken variant (what's next, Godzilla?) at New Year's. Symptoms were mild (but he still tested) and he was prescribed Paxlovid, resulting in stomach discomfort far worse than the Cthylla head cold. People would rather risk injury from new drugs than suffer the annoyance of a cold with a scary name.
I am not surprised. It is not the coof that is killing these people. I think we all know what it is. I did my best to persuade people not to get the hokey pokey and I was successful with some. Perhaps I could have done more.
The problem is "educated" people methinks. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the neuroscientist, once claimed that "brilliant" people can be a problem because they don't think they have to work hard (my paraphrase). Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an example of this. Recently, he has become painful to listen to. Not as painful as listening to these coof stories.
We are own our own. Looks like I have to become my own medical adviser.
There is a deeper irony to this article. One might argue that there is a whole hierarchy of causes responsible for the deaths. And one might further argue that solution proposed by Japanese medical authorities - (further) payments to hospitals for covid patients and treatments - is a more fundamental cause of the deaths even than the vaccine itself.
Wow; you are lurking on these pages, Will? Wonderful to see you here. I LOVE the Daily Sceptic; THANK YOU for your work. I hope you're a regular reader of this Substack. "Guy Gin" is by far the best source for any info on Japanese Covidiocy. I hope you can interview him for a comprehensive take on everything he knows - and can back up with official data.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm certain that Japan has many World class scientists & engineers. For all I know, doctors as well.
But odd to see a country so enthused by experimental gene therapy "vaccines" produced by Big Pharma outfits (like Pfizer, with their record of being fined $2.3 Billion for mis-marketing Bextra in 2009), that the old are on their 5th jab and 6 month babies now jabbed; but the same country that rigorously bans Vicks Inhalers as potential defiler of Youth? Seriously?
Of course, Japanese doctors and academics are likely no more heroic, no more careless of getting fined or ostracised or fired, that their counterparts in the West. And Japanese culture doesn't encourage routinely challenging authority.
But someone will sooner or later have to answer for this Global monumental policy failure. OK, I doubt it will be the people really responsible (Fauci, Collins, Ferguson, Farrar, Shi Zhengli, [add your favourite "expert" here]) will get away, smelling of roses, but someone must be found as a scapegoat.
It is no good insisting, as our Genius Politicians routinely say: - "Follow The Science™.
As the great scientist & communicator Richard P. Feynman pointed out: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says 'science teaches such and such', he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn't teach it; experience teaches it” (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, p. 187).
The Scientists will point fingers at the Politicians. And the Politicians will point fingers at the Scientists.
During the ensuing Chaos, opportunists like Clown Schwab will run away with the Prize, i.e. Absolute Control over the Lives of All People on the Planet.
I work (Worked?) with an infectious disease control expert at one of my vocational schools. I asked him why HE was wearing a mask. Surprised at the question who stood there bugged eyed as I started to explain that I was certified in respirator use and knew that masks can not do what they are telling us they do. His eyes returned to normal, he gestured for me to stop and said in English, “It’s political.” . Reverting to his native Japanese, he explained that all in his field knew that everything they were having us do would have no positive effect, but that Japan was special and they could not speak out about it. I did not get an actual answer to the question of what would happen to those who did speak up but he was shocked to learn that similar was happening elsewhere in the world.
Slightly off topic (well, very off topic) but if masks work to some reasonable degree and the Chinese are still wearing masks all the time how come everyone there is catching Covid?
How do they know it's covid? By using a test that is not a test, testing for a virus that doesn't exist. The virus has NEVER been proven to exist as anything else but a product of dead or dying cells.
You can see the gravy train in action where I am. In the last month two new PCR clinics have opened up advertising 'free' tests. Why are they needed now?
Those thing are all over Tokyo. I have more of them than I have people using them. I think I have seen a total of 4 people using the countless testing sites I have seen.
Experts can be extremely thick when their jobs depend on it. But it's pretty simple - Japan has the highest ratio of oldies on the planet and they are susceptible to dying from anything, including overvaccination. Anyway, all very convenient for the completely broke Japanese government.
Not even in the same league. Going from recent memory, the definition for “an aging society’ is a any society with 7% or more of their population is 65 years old or older. Something like 30% of Japan’s population is 65 or older. While I did not know where other countries rank and that it would be similar in the US if not for immigration, legal and otherwise, I have noticed for decades that when driving around the country it is exceedingly rare to any other than elderly working the fields. When ever there is an accident on a commercial fishing boat the youngest of those involved is in their 50s, if that young. There are more elderly in Japan than children. the number of Japanese 65 and older is more than double the number of those under 15. The number of this age group has been declining for over 40 years.
Perhaps the experts are wearing their masks over their eyes as well! We've discussed the compliance before; tragically, a scrupulous cohort very often needs no coercion...
Another ex-pat in Japan here. This country has lost the plot. I finally caught the dreaded plague on Boxing Day while out shopping for a new mobile phone, having dropped my previous one into an open fire a few days before. I was the only person in the mall unmasked as usual. I thought people wore masks to protect everyone else around them? Nope, that doesn't work either.
As a lunatic prepper I have a huge stash of medical supplies, shipped in direct from pharmacies in India. Ivermectin has been in the stash for over a year and was given to my wife and son last summer when my wife caught it and I was back in Blighty. My son didn't catch it and my wife had one bad day (the first day) with a 40C fever. I took a dose in the morning and again in the evening. My fever was 40.5C. Next morning was 38C and I felt fine. Back to normal by lunch.
It's all anecdotal and maybe we would have had the same results without IVM. I take it as a win though.
My sister-in-law, 4 jabs in and about to go in for number 5 had a massive brain hemorrhage end of November. She had a miraculous recovery and was discharged a few days before Christmas. I had my wife talk to her and she says she isn't going to get anymore shots. Luckily all 3 of kids are unpoked. My wife got the first one in March 2021 before we knew how deadly they were. I talked to her and we were in agreement that she wasn't going to get anymore. Then her hospital (she's a nurse) asked her to get a 2nd. Just asked. No mandates here. And she did. SMFH. I was not happy and words were said. She hasn't had #3, #4 or #5 so it's just a matter of crossing fingers, I guess.
I live in a small town where 95% of people are vaxxed to the maxx. I'm suprised I haven't heard about many deaths or injuries. Maybe people down here in southern Kyushu got some good lots or saline. Time will tell.
IVM has never been approved or widely used in Japan. The misconception overseas that it has stems from a misunderstanding of a recommendation by the head of the Tokyo Medical Association. See the post below for the details.
Thanks for the link. However, since I don't regularly follow the news in Japan and the fact that I remembered a head doctor recommended IVM for the mass populace back in 2021 (maybe it was a Forbes article for me?), means that mainstream news covered it and the info gained some momentum and most likely convinced 'more' Japanese (doctors and patients) in using/importing it. Curious nonetheless. Also, your meme crackdown in the end was not convincing. The US also cannot constitutionally mandate the clot shots (among many other countries), but still did. Also, throwing away shots vs sending back is just semantics.
Widely reported in the West, but not in Japan. No one I know, and I work/ed at medical universities in Japan, think it is being widely used. It has been recommended by doctors in the States too, does that mean that it is widely used there? It is not banned in Japan but the government recommends that it is not used against covid. Just to show the powers of government recommendation, all the covid mitigation factories that are being followed are by recommendation only. They only one I am aware that is NOT being followed is the recommendation from last summer that masks NOT be worn outside. Most still are wearing their masks outside.
Also, Peru was an early adopter of IVM (early 2020) and somehow that dwindled down too. I know there is a large Japanese presence in Peru, maybe PM Abe or others knew how successful Peru was with IVM?
Abe resigned in Aug 2020, 6 months before any jabs were administered in Japan and a year before Dr Ozaki’s IVM comments. And there’s no reason evidence of Abe promoting IVM or any off-patent drug. The meme suggests IVM is widely used in Japan and the jabs aren’t, whereas the complete opposite is the truth.
Not sure if you know the answer, but do you know if there are any statistics on IVM usage? Of course it seems vaccinated status is everyone's business and we have numbers on that.
There aren’t any usage surveys that I know about, but IVM isn’t approved for Covid and can’t be brought over the counter in Japan, so there’s probably no real point.. No medication will be widely adopted in Japan without official approval. Japanese doctors tend to go along with the majority, the same as the rest of the population sadly.
There are reports that many individuals are buying online form overseas. No way to get solid data on this. It is not correct to say that it is not in use here, but it is also not accurate to say that it is widely used. If a hospital says it is not to be used, the doctors working there in are highly unlikely to prescribe it. If a prefectural government says “no” to its use, highly unlikely that any prefectural or city hospital will use it.
It’s use is not zero, but far far far from widespread.
Any guesses on how many individuals/families are mail(net)-ordering IVM and just not talking about it? I'd say that even if it's not a popular treatment (thanks to thorough mainstream "debunking"), there does seem to be some degree awareness and uptake outside of institutions (as well as a bit of the anti-IVM tomshillery you see in the west). Or at least, that's my impression from the grittier parts of the net:
And yet there are organizations that STILL require Covid shots for entrance! My [former] reform synagogue in the SF Bay area, for instance.
There is still a sizable number of people who believe in the Covid shots and worship Anthony Fauci. Just reading the NYT comments from any Covid article will turn your stomach.
DeSantis Urges Permanent Law Preventing Vaccine, Mask Discrimination:
The proposal permanently prohibits COVID-19 mask requirements throughout the state, prohibits COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements in all schools, prohibits COVID-19 vaccine passports in Florida, and bans employers from hiring or firing based on COVID-19 vaccine status.
A friend contracted the dreaded Kraken variant (what's next, Godzilla?) at New Year's. Symptoms were mild (but he still tested) and he was prescribed Paxlovid, resulting in stomach discomfort far worse than the Cthylla head cold. People would rather risk injury from new drugs than suffer the annoyance of a cold with a scary name.
I got the clot shot under duress. I remarked to my wife, I have allowed myself to be given the 2 day flu to prevent from catching a cold, brilliant!
BBQ version, haven't you heard? BQ11 et al.
Throw another Kraken on the barbie, mate!
I am not surprised. It is not the coof that is killing these people. I think we all know what it is. I did my best to persuade people not to get the hokey pokey and I was successful with some. Perhaps I could have done more.
The problem is "educated" people methinks. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the neuroscientist, once claimed that "brilliant" people can be a problem because they don't think they have to work hard (my paraphrase). Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an example of this. Recently, he has become painful to listen to. Not as painful as listening to these coof stories.
We are own our own. Looks like I have to become my own medical adviser.
There is a deeper irony to this article. One might argue that there is a whole hierarchy of causes responsible for the deaths. And one might further argue that solution proposed by Japanese medical authorities - (further) payments to hospitals for covid patients and treatments - is a more fundamental cause of the deaths even than the vaccine itself.
You will be a better medical adviser than 90% of the current crop of "experts".
91%.
99%
Probably. The other 1% comes from the homeless population of Japan.
Please may the Daily Sceptic reprint this? (Email me on thedailysceptic@gmail.com for direct messaging.)
It certainly can.
I’ve emailed you under my real name, so check the junk folder if my email hasn’t got through.
Thanks very much https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/13/japans-experts-baffled-by-high-covid-deaths-from-heart-problems-despite-high-vaccination-rate/. The email didn't come through for some reason, even in spam/junk.
Thanks. I feel like I’ve finally made it! The email was just yes to reconfirm and ask whether any editing was necessary.
Wow; you are lurking on these pages, Will? Wonderful to see you here. I LOVE the Daily Sceptic; THANK YOU for your work. I hope you're a regular reader of this Substack. "Guy Gin" is by far the best source for any info on Japanese Covidiocy. I hope you can interview him for a comprehensive take on everything he knows - and can back up with official data.
I second all of this!
It’s so painful to read this stuff like in a horror movie when want to tell them to turn around!
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm certain that Japan has many World class scientists & engineers. For all I know, doctors as well.
But odd to see a country so enthused by experimental gene therapy "vaccines" produced by Big Pharma outfits (like Pfizer, with their record of being fined $2.3 Billion for mis-marketing Bextra in 2009), that the old are on their 5th jab and 6 month babies now jabbed; but the same country that rigorously bans Vicks Inhalers as potential defiler of Youth? Seriously?
Of course, Japanese doctors and academics are likely no more heroic, no more careless of getting fined or ostracised or fired, that their counterparts in the West. And Japanese culture doesn't encourage routinely challenging authority.
But someone will sooner or later have to answer for this Global monumental policy failure. OK, I doubt it will be the people really responsible (Fauci, Collins, Ferguson, Farrar, Shi Zhengli, [add your favourite "expert" here]) will get away, smelling of roses, but someone must be found as a scapegoat.
It is no good insisting, as our Genius Politicians routinely say: - "Follow The Science™.
As the great scientist & communicator Richard P. Feynman pointed out: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says 'science teaches such and such', he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn't teach it; experience teaches it” (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, p. 187).
The Scientists will point fingers at the Politicians. And the Politicians will point fingers at the Scientists.
During the ensuing Chaos, opportunists like Clown Schwab will run away with the Prize, i.e. Absolute Control over the Lives of All People on the Planet.
I work (Worked?) with an infectious disease control expert at one of my vocational schools. I asked him why HE was wearing a mask. Surprised at the question who stood there bugged eyed as I started to explain that I was certified in respirator use and knew that masks can not do what they are telling us they do. His eyes returned to normal, he gestured for me to stop and said in English, “It’s political.” . Reverting to his native Japanese, he explained that all in his field knew that everything they were having us do would have no positive effect, but that Japan was special and they could not speak out about it. I did not get an actual answer to the question of what would happen to those who did speak up but he was shocked to learn that similar was happening elsewhere in the world.
Slightly off topic (well, very off topic) but if masks work to some reasonable degree and the Chinese are still wearing masks all the time how come everyone there is catching Covid?
There you go with that fancy pants logic again.
Next you'll be saying that the jabs don't work either.
Or that the bivalent shot wasn't active against any existing variants, even though they throughly tested it on so, so many mice.
Anyone would think you didn't trust the Experts™.
And after all they've done t̶o̶ for us.
How do they know it's covid? By using a test that is not a test, testing for a virus that doesn't exist. The virus has NEVER been proven to exist as anything else but a product of dead or dying cells.
Because! Shut the Fauci up! You you you MASK DENIER you!
Almost an exact quote of the answer I get when I ask the same question.
You can see the gravy train in action where I am. In the last month two new PCR clinics have opened up advertising 'free' tests. Why are they needed now?
Those thing are all over Tokyo. I have more of them than I have people using them. I think I have seen a total of 4 people using the countless testing sites I have seen.
What a tragic loss of this older generation and the cultural knowledge that they carry. Irreplacable in the world.
Yep. They are killing their own culture.
Experts can be extremely thick when their jobs depend on it. But it's pretty simple - Japan has the highest ratio of oldies on the planet and they are susceptible to dying from anything, including overvaccination. Anyway, all very convenient for the completely broke Japanese government.
The population of the entire western world is old
Not even in the same league. Going from recent memory, the definition for “an aging society’ is a any society with 7% or more of their population is 65 years old or older. Something like 30% of Japan’s population is 65 or older. While I did not know where other countries rank and that it would be similar in the US if not for immigration, legal and otherwise, I have noticed for decades that when driving around the country it is exceedingly rare to any other than elderly working the fields. When ever there is an accident on a commercial fishing boat the youngest of those involved is in their 50s, if that young. There are more elderly in Japan than children. the number of Japanese 65 and older is more than double the number of those under 15. The number of this age group has been declining for over 40 years.
If only they had taken a 7th jab...
German man gets himself vaccinated against Covid 90 times so he can sell forged jab passes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10681259/Man-Germany-gets-90-COVID-19-shots-sell-forged-passes.html
And the 8th, followed by the 9th, 10th.......
Perhaps the experts are wearing their masks over their eyes as well! We've discussed the compliance before; tragically, a scrupulous cohort very often needs no coercion...
All these "experts" are same, same but different the world over.
Another ex-pat in Japan here. This country has lost the plot. I finally caught the dreaded plague on Boxing Day while out shopping for a new mobile phone, having dropped my previous one into an open fire a few days before. I was the only person in the mall unmasked as usual. I thought people wore masks to protect everyone else around them? Nope, that doesn't work either.
As a lunatic prepper I have a huge stash of medical supplies, shipped in direct from pharmacies in India. Ivermectin has been in the stash for over a year and was given to my wife and son last summer when my wife caught it and I was back in Blighty. My son didn't catch it and my wife had one bad day (the first day) with a 40C fever. I took a dose in the morning and again in the evening. My fever was 40.5C. Next morning was 38C and I felt fine. Back to normal by lunch.
It's all anecdotal and maybe we would have had the same results without IVM. I take it as a win though.
My sister-in-law, 4 jabs in and about to go in for number 5 had a massive brain hemorrhage end of November. She had a miraculous recovery and was discharged a few days before Christmas. I had my wife talk to her and she says she isn't going to get anymore shots. Luckily all 3 of kids are unpoked. My wife got the first one in March 2021 before we knew how deadly they were. I talked to her and we were in agreement that she wasn't going to get anymore. Then her hospital (she's a nurse) asked her to get a 2nd. Just asked. No mandates here. And she did. SMFH. I was not happy and words were said. She hasn't had #3, #4 or #5 so it's just a matter of crossing fingers, I guess.
I live in a small town where 95% of people are vaxxed to the maxx. I'm suprised I haven't heard about many deaths or injuries. Maybe people down here in southern Kyushu got some good lots or saline. Time will tell.
Anecdotally among neighbors & friends of Japanese family these past few years:
* Handful of covid cases, all mild. No hospitalizations or fatalities
* Neighbor with arm rashes after each 2 doses, died of stroke in middle of night after 3rd.
* Next block neighbor hospitalized with heart attack immediately after flu shot. Bivalent taken 2-3 weeks prior
* Relative unable to use injected arm for two weeks following 2nd shot (soreness and zero strength)
* Different relative needing surgery after sudden appearance of cataracts in both eyes (by then 2x injected)
* Neighborhood senior walking group reduced to about half (i.e. 2 dozen down to dozen) due to dementia, frailty, difficulty walking, 2 no contact
I remember in 2021 Japan started using ivermectin and all their cases went down- so what changed?!
IVM has never been approved or widely used in Japan. The misconception overseas that it has stems from a misunderstanding of a recommendation by the head of the Tokyo Medical Association. See the post below for the details.
https://guygin.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-widespread-ivermectin
Thanks for the link. However, since I don't regularly follow the news in Japan and the fact that I remembered a head doctor recommended IVM for the mass populace back in 2021 (maybe it was a Forbes article for me?), means that mainstream news covered it and the info gained some momentum and most likely convinced 'more' Japanese (doctors and patients) in using/importing it. Curious nonetheless. Also, your meme crackdown in the end was not convincing. The US also cannot constitutionally mandate the clot shots (among many other countries), but still did. Also, throwing away shots vs sending back is just semantics.
Widely reported in the West, but not in Japan. No one I know, and I work/ed at medical universities in Japan, think it is being widely used. It has been recommended by doctors in the States too, does that mean that it is widely used there? It is not banned in Japan but the government recommends that it is not used against covid. Just to show the powers of government recommendation, all the covid mitigation factories that are being followed are by recommendation only. They only one I am aware that is NOT being followed is the recommendation from last summer that masks NOT be worn outside. Most still are wearing their masks outside.
Also, Peru was an early adopter of IVM (early 2020) and somehow that dwindled down too. I know there is a large Japanese presence in Peru, maybe PM Abe or others knew how successful Peru was with IVM?
Abe resigned in Aug 2020, 6 months before any jabs were administered in Japan and a year before Dr Ozaki’s IVM comments. And there’s no reason evidence of Abe promoting IVM or any off-patent drug. The meme suggests IVM is widely used in Japan and the jabs aren’t, whereas the complete opposite is the truth.
Not sure if you know the answer, but do you know if there are any statistics on IVM usage? Of course it seems vaccinated status is everyone's business and we have numbers on that.
There aren’t any usage surveys that I know about, but IVM isn’t approved for Covid and can’t be brought over the counter in Japan, so there’s probably no real point.. No medication will be widely adopted in Japan without official approval. Japanese doctors tend to go along with the majority, the same as the rest of the population sadly.
There are reports that many individuals are buying online form overseas. No way to get solid data on this. It is not correct to say that it is not in use here, but it is also not accurate to say that it is widely used. If a hospital says it is not to be used, the doctors working there in are highly unlikely to prescribe it. If a prefectural government says “no” to its use, highly unlikely that any prefectural or city hospital will use it.
It’s use is not zero, but far far far from widespread.
Any guesses on how many individuals/families are mail(net)-ordering IVM and just not talking about it? I'd say that even if it's not a popular treatment (thanks to thorough mainstream "debunking"), there does seem to be some degree awareness and uptake outside of institutions (as well as a bit of the anti-IVM tomshillery you see in the west). Or at least, that's my impression from the grittier parts of the net:
https://krsw.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/covid19/1673063746
And yet there are organizations that STILL require Covid shots for entrance! My [former] reform synagogue in the SF Bay area, for instance.
There is still a sizable number of people who believe in the Covid shots and worship Anthony Fauci. Just reading the NYT comments from any Covid article will turn your stomach.
Time to move to Florida!!
DeSantis Urges Permanent Law Preventing Vaccine, Mask Discrimination:
The proposal permanently prohibits COVID-19 mask requirements throughout the state, prohibits COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements in all schools, prohibits COVID-19 vaccine passports in Florida, and bans employers from hiring or firing based on COVID-19 vaccine status.
https://flvoicenews.com/desantis-vaccine-protection/