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Make your mind MSM. Last night a national news broadcast said Japan’s medical system is on the brink of collapse from all these COVID cases. I then see articles like this.

Which is it? Is Japan improving or about to collapse?

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Severe cases lag newly identified cases, especially in cluster-tracing countries like Japan. And ICU cases are cumulative for a few weeks, so even with the lowest number of new cases, they still have to continue treat the past 2-3 weeks peak of cases.

Mainstream media has been exceptionally poor at putting news of the pandemic in context, most reporting is very disjointed and confusing.

More importantly, do they want the masses to get back to work, now that funds got their chance to buy the dip, or no?

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