Children in Japan are no longer required to wear masks at school, but 68% said they would continue anyway while just 5% said they would stop. Their development is greatly suffering and suicides are at record levels.
The persistence of the mask madness, the partitions and hand sanitisers that will seemingly never be removed, the embrace of lockdown isolation – the Japanese would seem perfectly happy to do it all again.
Despite having third, fourth and fifth vaccination rates of 91%, 83%, and 56%, respectively, Japan's Covid death toll has never been higher, and many of the deaths are heart related, baffling the country's experts.
Professor Masanori Fukushima, a Japanese infectious diseases expert, describes the mRNA Covid vaccines as an “unprecedented disaster” in an exclusive interview for the Daily Sceptic.
Middle-income countries like India and South Africa fared worse during the pandemic than low-income countries like Central African Republic. Though this may be partly due to poor data quality in low-income countries.
Law professor David McGrogan has spent Christmas in Japan, where the masked up population still lives in mortal fear of catching Covid, in spite of government efforts to get them to return to normal.
Virology Journal has published a heart surgeon's call for all Covid vaccine booster programmes to be stopped on safety grounds, calling Covid vaccines a "major risk factor for infections in critically ill patients".
Studies show that the benefits of closing schools are marginal at best. But the costs are very real. It’s no wonder that even erstwhile members of Independent SAGE are admitting they get this one wrong.
South East Asian countries are experiencing their deadliest Covid waves to date despite the milder Omicron variant being dominant and high vaccination rates. This was not part of anyone's plan.
Western countries, which claim to stand for civil liberties, have introduced vaccine passports. By contrast, the Japanese government has explicitly told citizens: "do not discriminate" against the unvaccinated.
