Last week, we saw how baffled Japan’s experts were as to why Japan’s Covid deaths are higher than ever despite high booster rates among the elderly. Earlier this week, the experts took a shot at the answer. Here’s Takaji Wakita, chairman of Japan’s Covid Response Advisory Board.
There is no upside to extending the lives of Japan’s elderly. Sorry, that is just the way it is. Naive observers may wish to believe there are government operatives who care about end-of-life extension. They don’t. Maybe they care about their own parents but then again, probably not.
Among other things… I own a business that provides seasonal / cultural installations in high-end Japanese senior care facilities.
Residents love it. Their guilt-ridden children love hearing about it from their parents. The facility staff love it. Our work brightens their days; gives them something new to talk about, and gives them something to take photos with. Japanese love photos. Our work is soul satisfying work. I feel incredibly blessed to be involved with it.
However, the reality is that our clients are the facility owners. The emotional-spiritual benefits that we provide are tatemae. The honne is that our business model costs the owners less than what competitors were charging them. That is our company’s actual advantage.
From my clients; the owners, I know for a fact that the 1.8% monthly death rate has doubled to 3.7% since the required mRNA injections began. And that rate is still accelerating.
Thankfully, my staff were never required to be injected. I refused. We go in and replace the installations while wearing masks. We add to the bottom line and make people happy. Exemptions are made for us.
Please don’t take this the wrong way. Higher turnover due to premature deaths at senior care facilities is simply more profitable for everyone. Replacing incontinent residents with ambulatory-continent residents is more profitable. Children inherit 1/2 of their parent’s assets but only when they die. Government gets a threefer - pension payments stop, medical insurance stops, and 1/2 of the deceased’s assets go to pay death taxes. The government benefits the most from accelerated death of Japan’s untaxable elderly.
Anyone who looks at Japan’s inverted population pyramid can see the logic of what I am describing. It is exactly what the structure and systems require. It is logical. And it’s not only Japan. This same is happening in 17 of the G20 nations.
In summation, there is no institutional incentive to prolong life in Japan. The best that can be said is that efforts are made to create a more positive end-of-life experience. Like with the work we do.
If the tax system and physical structures are changed so that life extension creates instead of consumes value, then everything would reverse. For now and for the foreseeable future, accelerated deaths can not only be expected, they can be understood as required.
Just finished the second part of a two part lesson on how masks can not, do not stop viruses. I hope I was able to plant seeds of doubt. These 1st year students stated they believe the computer modeling over field testing, and studies and knowledge that predates the panic, so we’ll see. None are aware that there could possibly be even a correlation between shot rates and death rates. Med students.
So we are suppose to go back to Japan in April. We just can't get excited but I will try for my girls. Who want to come back with their Obachan. My mother in law is from Nagasaki and we (used) to take her every year back for several weeks before COVID. In fact, we were in Sapporo in January 2020 before my wife said let go home before it got bad (I thought she meant the virus....she meant cultural/social). She called it. She knew the pressure to conform would be intense. As a 6'2 200lb native american man, in places, I can sit down in a train and people will get up and move. My girls call it my Japanese superpower:)
Love your posts. Many thanks for the reply and source of data. Will take a look. By the way I've had a trip planned to Japan since march 2021, resceduled Sept 21, then Mar 22, then sept 22 then Mar 23. Now cancelled due to entry requirement. Lots of Yen not spent.
Is it just like here in the US? Are the regulatory agencies captured over there too? How can the same thing be going on in so many different countries?
Covid deaths are relatively stable in Taiwan the past couple of months. And now make up only 1/3 of excess deaths. Unlike Japan Taiwan has a committee which determined if a PCR+ deaths is a COVID death. Since only 5% of the population is unvaxxed but make up almost 50% of the total deaths their may be some bias in the determination.
Unlike Japan Taiwan people seem resistant to the bivalent boost. Last I checked only about 8000 doses per day of any COVID vax was given. Not sure about the % of how many got it, but the fact this is hard to find suggests its low
The firsst chart Vaccine doses and New death is interesting. The peak deaths are increasing but for me more importantly the summer deaths (when flu/colds are at a minimum the New deaths are increasing dramatically. Is this vaccine related? Can someone send me a link to the source data. Thanks in advance.
There is no upside to extending the lives of Japan’s elderly. Sorry, that is just the way it is. Naive observers may wish to believe there are government operatives who care about end-of-life extension. They don’t. Maybe they care about their own parents but then again, probably not.
Among other things… I own a business that provides seasonal / cultural installations in high-end Japanese senior care facilities.
Residents love it. Their guilt-ridden children love hearing about it from their parents. The facility staff love it. Our work brightens their days; gives them something new to talk about, and gives them something to take photos with. Japanese love photos. Our work is soul satisfying work. I feel incredibly blessed to be involved with it.
However, the reality is that our clients are the facility owners. The emotional-spiritual benefits that we provide are tatemae. The honne is that our business model costs the owners less than what competitors were charging them. That is our company’s actual advantage.
From my clients; the owners, I know for a fact that the 1.8% monthly death rate has doubled to 3.7% since the required mRNA injections began. And that rate is still accelerating.
Thankfully, my staff were never required to be injected. I refused. We go in and replace the installations while wearing masks. We add to the bottom line and make people happy. Exemptions are made for us.
Please don’t take this the wrong way. Higher turnover due to premature deaths at senior care facilities is simply more profitable for everyone. Replacing incontinent residents with ambulatory-continent residents is more profitable. Children inherit 1/2 of their parent’s assets but only when they die. Government gets a threefer - pension payments stop, medical insurance stops, and 1/2 of the deceased’s assets go to pay death taxes. The government benefits the most from accelerated death of Japan’s untaxable elderly.
Anyone who looks at Japan’s inverted population pyramid can see the logic of what I am describing. It is exactly what the structure and systems require. It is logical. And it’s not only Japan. This same is happening in 17 of the G20 nations.
In summation, there is no institutional incentive to prolong life in Japan. The best that can be said is that efforts are made to create a more positive end-of-life experience. Like with the work we do.
If the tax system and physical structures are changed so that life extension creates instead of consumes value, then everything would reverse. For now and for the foreseeable future, accelerated deaths can not only be expected, they can be understood as required.
Just finished the second part of a two part lesson on how masks can not, do not stop viruses. I hope I was able to plant seeds of doubt. These 1st year students stated they believe the computer modeling over field testing, and studies and knowledge that predates the panic, so we’ll see. None are aware that there could possibly be even a correlation between shot rates and death rates. Med students.
So we are suppose to go back to Japan in April. We just can't get excited but I will try for my girls. Who want to come back with their Obachan. My mother in law is from Nagasaki and we (used) to take her every year back for several weeks before COVID. In fact, we were in Sapporo in January 2020 before my wife said let go home before it got bad (I thought she meant the virus....she meant cultural/social). She called it. She knew the pressure to conform would be intense. As a 6'2 200lb native american man, in places, I can sit down in a train and people will get up and move. My girls call it my Japanese superpower:)
Love your posts. Many thanks for the reply and source of data. Will take a look. By the way I've had a trip planned to Japan since march 2021, resceduled Sept 21, then Mar 22, then sept 22 then Mar 23. Now cancelled due to entry requirement. Lots of Yen not spent.
GREAT work as always from Guy Gin. Guy Gin, please write me by email like before. I can't find our old correspondence. Thanks!
Is it just like here in the US? Are the regulatory agencies captured over there too? How can the same thing be going on in so many different countries?
Covid deaths are relatively stable in Taiwan the past couple of months. And now make up only 1/3 of excess deaths. Unlike Japan Taiwan has a committee which determined if a PCR+ deaths is a COVID death. Since only 5% of the population is unvaxxed but make up almost 50% of the total deaths their may be some bias in the determination.
Unlike Japan Taiwan people seem resistant to the bivalent boost. Last I checked only about 8000 doses per day of any COVID vax was given. Not sure about the % of how many got it, but the fact this is hard to find suggests its low
I advise that they increase the amount of Rat Juice in the jab and urgently get as many boosters into the CovIDIOTS.
The firsst chart Vaccine doses and New death is interesting. The peak deaths are increasing but for me more importantly the summer deaths (when flu/colds are at a minimum the New deaths are increasing dramatically. Is this vaccine related? Can someone send me a link to the source data. Thanks in advance.
I'd question this last diagram completely...