I would think the only people traveling to Japan these days are Japanese people. I wonder if the ban would also include people with Japanese passports.
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#12Reconsidered my opinion: I agree with a reply below. The primary determiner of how well a place responds to Covid seems to be their experience with SARS, and possibly other infectious respiratory diseases like TB.
If you disagree or downvote, please explain. I'd like to hear reasons and evidence.
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#13With all these provisions: if you've decided it would be a good idea to do, why not do it now? If it's a good idea now, it's going to be twice as good of an idea in three days. And it's going to be four times as good of an idea in six. Etc. Over and over again the organs of governments announce decisions that would be a good idea today that don't come into effect until a few days from now. Which means that the harm d…
>The restriction applies even to Japanese nationals returning from the United States. That's probably the answer. Some amount of heads-up is owed to Japanese nationals. A Taiwanese friend was in a similar situation w.r.t. Taiwan closing borders. Uncertainty of timeline and parameters can be incredibly disruptive for citizens trying to travel back to their home country. They might not have permanent lodging in the U.S…
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Re: Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week
#14With all these provisions: if you've decided it would be a good idea to do, why not do it now? If it's a good idea now, it's going to be twice as good of an idea in three days. And it's going to be four times as good of an idea in six. Etc. Over and over again the organs of governments announce decisions that would be a good idea today that don't come into effect until a few days from now. Which means that the harm d…
> why not do it now?
I'm guessing to give people time to alter their plans etc.
> Unless they are magically different from every other country
They seem to be! Nobody really knows why, but even if their testing is inadequate you'd still expect to be seeing a lot more deaths if the virus was rapidly spreading. More info: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/20/national/corona...
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#15Re: Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week
#16Reconsidered my opinion: I agree with a reply below. The primary determiner of how well a place responds to Covid seems to be their experience with SARS, and possibly other infectious respiratory diseases like TB.
If you disagree or downvote, please explain. I'd like to hear reasons and evidence.
lol. shouldn't you first present evidence and reasons as opposed to ideology?
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#18Doesn’t logic dictate that all international travel time and from all countries be stopped for a few months?
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#19Seems like a logical decision. Japan has managed to avoid a massive outbreak so far.
Not anymore. Tokyo is already [edit: entered the hockey-stick part of] an exponential trajectory as of around 5 days ago.
https://stopcovid19.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en
Every press conference ending with Koike (Tokyo governor) or Abe (PM) babbling along with no material countermeasures being announced has been making me feel all the more dreadful. They needed to have already shut down everything long ago. We will be joining the world's other major outbreak cities in a week or two.
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#20My only question is: "Why hasn't the world done this two weeks ago?"
The US is failing to test on a massive scale, and the outbreak has been growing exponentially, week after week. Control measures are being taken, but on an inconsistent, fragmented basis.