SketchyMagpie
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Interesting ONS data about Japan's covid response was released recently.
They had the least restrictive measures (no national lockdowns), a death rate 10x lower than the UK and the lowest drop in GDP among the G7.
The reason they avoided national lockdowns is because they focused their precautions on airborne transmission with strong messaging (ie not "wash your hands to the national anthem"....) plus effective contact tracing.
The report also shows that "economic inactivity" (ie people leaving or looking for new jobs) has reversed everywhere except in the UK, where "the increases in inactivity have been more persistent".
This somewhat breaks the whole "lockdowns vs economy" argument favoured by the media.
They had the least restrictive measures (no national lockdowns), a death rate 10x lower than the UK and the lowest drop in GDP among the G7.
The reason they avoided national lockdowns is because they focused their precautions on airborne transmission with strong messaging (ie not "wash your hands to the national anthem"....) plus effective contact tracing.
The report also shows that "economic inactivity" (ie people leaving or looking for new jobs) has reversed everywhere except in the UK, where "the increases in inactivity have been more persistent".
This somewhat breaks the whole "lockdowns vs economy" argument favoured by the media.
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