I hate to sound like a broken record but: The Japanese/South Korean model is also what's described here as the Chinese model (social distancing to reduce transmission) but it's less extreme… (View Post)

I'm repeating myself for about the billionth time here but Japan/SK seem to be succeeding at containment without a lockdown, and without serious disruption to the economy. If you succeed in redu… (View Post)

It may *look* like the government has no idea what the fuck it's doing, but it is in fact being guided by a complicated mathematical model that you non-experts would not be able to understand (View Post)

I've got a friend with a little restaurant out in the mountains, it seats about 10 people in a teensy little wooden cabin. Since coro-chan showed up it's been permanently packed... (View Post)

I think you have to consider the measures as part of the whole strategy, rather than in isolation. If you decline to ask people to cancel events - like gigs at the Osaka live house which was a *huge*… (View Post)