Japan, like Sweden, is a crucial control country with no lockdown. Japan got almost no impact.

Ivor Cummins.  Who is he?  

Find him on Twitter at @FatEmperor. 

Japan and other Asian countries had incredible low death rates.  And they matched New Zealand, but nobody wants to talk about them.  

Tom reviewed some of the headlines in April at the time that the death rates were falling off in Asia, explaining that all of the mainstream media had grim predictions for Japan and absolutely none of them occurred.  

Did we get an apology, a re-think of this?  No, they're onto the next country.  Or if they have to talk about Japan, they'll stumble around and say they wore masks or something.  They don't even know what happened.  

"Japan's Coronavirus Is Too Little, Too Late," William Pesek, WaPo, April 10, 2020.

"Did Japan Miss Its Chance to Keep the Coronavirus In Check?" Dennis Normile, Science Magazine, April 22, 2020.  

Japan, like Sweden, is a crucial control country with no lockdown.  So Japan, in a brief summary, Japan got almost no impact.  Wow!  So if you look at the graphs in Europe for the deaths per million, the big curves, and you plot Japan, you can't see it.  It's that low.  And even the most dedicated mask-o-path, whose pushing the mask, will acknowledge that it will reduce some forms of transmission . . . maybe.  So it's not masks in Japan, because look at the mortality curves.  It's basically huge humps (in Europe) versus nothing (in Japan).  So it's not masks.  

I really liked this quote of his: 

Talked to a retired detective inspector of the Irish Police Force today. Top guy, well connected. Asked him the question.

He said yes - *of course* the Gardai rank and file know this is complete bullshit, similar to a bad flu - period.

But they have to just follow orders... 🤨

— Ivor Cummins (@FatEmperor) December 21, 2020

Then there was this on December 7^th, 2020.  

This is a big one, like my epic Sept 8th Crucial Update which got 1,700,000 views. RETWEET pls to inform the masses!

Explains most of what you need to know about the pivotal seasonality, the European and USA dynamics, what lockdown really achieves & more! https://t.co/CPLw8BGqCE

— Ivor Cummins (@FatEmperor) December 7, 2020