So on Twitter Alex Berenson wrote the following on March 29th (
link)
1/ Japan, Japan. Japan is THE puzzle in all of this. It has avoided the steps Western health experts demand - no lockdown, few tests. It has an aged population, huge cities, close air links to China. It should have been overrun a month ago. Instead, NO outbreak. Why?
Today there is an article on
Forbes saying
Topline: In its largest daily increase of coronavirus infections, emerging hot spot Tokyo recorded 144 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the capital city’s total up to more than 1,300 a day after
Japan declared a state of emergency and enacted a one-month shutdown in Tokyo and six other areas.
So you may want to take his words with a grain of salt. Remember, if the lock down succeeds in stemming the infection, then everyone will say we overreacted, but that is precisely why the death counts didn't sky rocket. Let see what happens in Sweden.