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 vaccination campaigns.
Japanese over-65s have done their best to reduce Japan’s 612-million-dose stockpile of mRNA jabs, with third, fourth and fifth jab rates of 91%, 82.5%, and 56%, respectively. But unfortunately, Japan has started 2023 by reporting its highest ever daily Covid death tolls. During the booster era starting in early 2022, each wave has been noticeably higher than the last.
What could possibly explain this? Let’s ask Takaji Wakita, Chairman of Japan’s Covid Response Advisory Board: “The cause of the rise in Covid deaths is hard to explain.”
What about Dr. Satoshi Kamayachi, Director of the Japan Medical Association? “There’s a lot we don’t know, and we don’t have evidence.”
Nice to see an expert admit the limit of his knowledge. But there must be something Dr. Kamayachi can tell us, right?
Dr. Kamayachi, citing the rapid spread of Covid infections as one reason, explained that the majority of those who died were over 60 and many had underlying medical conditions. The direct cause of death is often heart failure or kidney disease, and he said that “thorough analysis is needed”.
Heart failure, you say? Well, it’s not like most Japanese over 60 have been injected multiple times with anything that causes cardiovascular problems, is it? And kidney disease is coincidentally a side-effect of Remdesivir, an approved Covid treatment in Japan.
Of course, Japan has been counting anyone who dies with a positive test result as a Covid death regardless of actual cause of death since 2020, but Dr. Kamayachi and the rest of Japan’s experts haven’t bothered bringing up the issue of attribution until now. In fact, they were more than happy to cite inflated mortality data to help promote the jabs. But now that people may question why daily reported Covid deaths are higher than ever after the majority of over-65s have taken the experts’ advice to get multiple boosters, underlying medical conditions can apparently be discussed.
But although he’s three years late, Dr. Kamayachi has a point. Although reported Covid deaths have been much higher in the booster era, far fewer Covid cases have been receiving mechanical ventilation (the grey line shows the number of ventilators (with ECMO) secured for Covid patients).
But even if hardly any of them have been struggling for breath on mechanical ventilation, Japan’s elderly have been dying in higher than expected numbers in the booster era. The national figures for December won’t be out until late February, but Yokohama (Japan’s second largest city) has already releases its all-cause death numbers for 2022. Somehow I doubt Dr. Kamayachi will call for a “thorough analysis” to find out the cause of the increase since August.
Although there’s no good news here for Japan’s vaxxed-to-the-max elderly, there is for Japan’s medical establishment: high numbers of Covid deaths mean the publicly funded Covid gravy train will keep going. From the Nikkei.
On January 11th, experts offered their on views reclassifying COVID-19 under the Infectious Diseases Act. In light of the current situation where the number of reported Covid deaths per day is the highest ever, the experts called for the Government to continue to provide a certain amount of financial support to cover treatment and hospitalisation costs and for securing hospital beds.
Basically, the Government’s selected experts, including Dr. Wakita above, recommend that Covid should be downgraded ‘gradually’, i.e., medical costs should continue to be covered by public funds rather than health insurance or out-of-pocket payments like every other medical condition. This might seem reasonable. But under the current scheme of Covid support payments, hospitals can be paid ¥436,000 ($3,370) per day to ‘secure’ a single ICU bed regardless of whether anyone is in it. And overpriced Covid treatments include glorified cold medications like Shinogi’s Xocova.
So let’s recap what the experts have told us. The cause of increased Covid deaths? “Dunno.” Should the Government keep showering medical institutions and pharma companies with money? “Absolutely!”
Well, what were you expecting them to say?
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And I didn’t see the word ”autopsy” mentioned once. You can’t find what you’re not looking for…
I think that the poor old elephant in the room should be claiming more overtime.
Elephants
only live till around 70! At this rate he’ll be cramped up in that tiny room until he retires!
at him saying “mum, whats that elephant doing in the corner of the room?”
All the kids will be pointing
While all the experts busily push past ignoring them all.
They’ll eventually cover it with a table cloth and claim it’s a fancy table someone brought back from a holiday in India.
Malhotra’s been on the BBC today. I thought the presenter was going to have a coronary when he started on mRNA vaccines, he was there to say statins were not as good as sliced bread then linked to vaccines. Priceless TV. Maybe the Japanese whould watch this too.
(7) Dr Aseem Malhotra on Twitter: “BREAKING BBC News: Cardiologist says likely contributory factor to excess cardiovascular deaths is covid mRNA vaccine and roll out should be suspended pending an inquiry. We did it. We broke mainstream broadcast media https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f525.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f525.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f525.svg https://t.co/F72YS7JAuE” / Twitter
Pretty funny. You could tell someone was giving her the come back questions through her ear piece. There was probably a mad scramble behind the scenes to quickly find a way to debunk what he was saying:
“So what you’re saying, that’s proven science, is it?”
Having said that, Malhotra should really stop talking once he’s said his bit about the medical info and his experience. When he goes into policy making like taxing processed foods etc, he doesn’t do himself any favours.
If he wants to project credibility as a scientist and doctor, he should stick to that.
“When he goes into policy making like taxing processed foods etc, he doesn’t do himself any favours.”
Totally agree. I am appalled by what some other people eat and how they live their lives, but am certainly not interested in bullying strangers into eating what I think they should eat, and I don’t want the state to do it for me either.
Probably some people would be appalled by how much I drink.
Unfortunately, IMO, it’s not the breakthrough Malhotra himself seems to think it is. First it was local TV so few will see it. Second it was a segment about Statins. I’m pretty much 99% certain this was the result of some local producer having his name in their “guest talking head” contact list relating to his past appearances talking about Statins. Someone from HQ is probably tearing that producer off a strip right now.
The important point is that the tweet has already got 3.2 million views.
I happened to hear an item on BBC R4 “news briefing” this morning that was, in effect, promoting the extended use of statins. Might be a coincidence, of course.
I applaud him for his actions in trying to get some exposure to this problem.
This is great!
Even the banner “7% of deaths in the UK are caused by high cholesterol” I’d argue should say “correlate with” – but that’s not why you called.
Malhotra was amazing. I’m astounded the BBC techs didn’t pull the plug on him the minute he mentioned mRNA in connection with heart attacks.
But STILL “our” MPs will adopt the Three Monkeys approach to excess deaths and the gene therapies.
A six year old child could tell them! Why cannot professionals see it?
Incentives. A six year old will often speak the truth because they’ve not learned any different. A professional adult will be well aware when they need to keep their trap shut to keep their job, career, funding going and stay out of jail.
Indeed, just like the naked emperor, only a child was bold enough to state the obvious.
So simple, a child could understand. But apparently too simple for the Occam’s Butterknife crowd in charge.
It’s incredibly fortunate that in a country facing an aging popular crisis that these jabs are culling that group at an astonishing rate. Sure a few young ones will go out clutching their chests and all the people’s lifespans will be shortened a decade or two or three, and yeah it might get even more difficult to make babies, but hey eugenics must do as eugenics does.
The Japanese and the Germans can always be counted upon to also do the wrong things very thoroughly and up until the very end.
Indeed, when they find themselves in a hole, they double down on digging.
Wow. Not only are they vaxxed to the max, at least 90-95% also still wear those awful face diapers too. Didn’t do a lick of good, it seems.
Like most of East Asia, they seemed to have had some pre-existing immunity to the original pre-Omicron and especially pre-Delta strains of the virus. But then “something” seems to have obliterated that pre-existing immunity. Any guesses what that could be? Hint: it’s the same thing that is damaging their hearts too.
Must be….climate change, lol.
USA, UK, and most of the West: Wow, we really, really messed up, it seems.
Japan: Hold my Sapporo!
If they are so sure the vaxxx is safe then why don’t they drop the emergency authorisation and apply for approval in the normal way? And why do they still get legal indemnity?
Indeed, that really gives the game away that they would still see the need to hide behind a liability shield.
Kudos to the Japanese for being honest. Covid causality works both ways, and human responses are inconsistent. It will take a decade to fully understand the Covid phenomenon.
We’ve known the authorities have been lying since March 2020.
Are you a 77 Brigade gimp?