Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass Testing?

Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by kitsunesoba on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:25AM (#23283671)

Masks along with general higher levels of cleanliness, especially in public transportation. I don't know what the trains are like in other countries, but between Japan and the US there is absolutely no comparison. Japan's trains are pristine next to ours.

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Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by user_50123890 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:29AM (#23283701)

Cleanliness does not really matter that much. There is little evidence for mass surface transmission.

This is a disease that is spread by breathing in air contaminated by a infected person coughing or talking.

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Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by veidr on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:35PM (#23284303)

Yeah, but one thing about the subways here in Japan that I think is weird: if I ride the subway to work (11-minute ride) most of the time literally nobody talks.

Nobody uses the phone (it's bad manners here), so like the only time anybody talks is like when a group of people gets on together (not usually the case when I commute).

I mainly bike so my subway experience might not be very typical, but it's one anecdata point.

Almost all my subway-riding experiences this year have been such that 95% of the other passengers are wearing masks, and nobody talks.

Can't be the main factor, but it might be one factor.

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Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by flocial on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:59PM (#23285862)

This. Talking on the phone on public transport is considered bad manners and practically never happens. Commute trains are dead silent with the exception of friends/family/coworkers traveling together. On top of all this everyone wears masks.

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Re:Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass T... by xeromal on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:27AM (#23283683)

I read that NY doesn't clean their subway nightly. Kind of insane considering how dirty public transit gets. At least run it through a gas chamber once a week to kill off everything.

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