The Folly of Japan’s Media Dancing to the Spectacle of PCR Testing
The essence of preventing the spread of the Wuhan virus lies in avoiding the Three Cs, keeping distance, wearing masks, and washing hands. Yet Japanese television media continue to overemphasize South Korea-style PCR testing, following a spectacle born from a country that failed in its initial epidemic control.
April 30, 2020
The thing called PCR testing is nothing more than a spectacle begun by Moon Jae-in of South Korea, a country that had completely failed in its initial epidemic defense and fallen into an overshoot, for election purposes and as an excuse to foreign countries.
The deterioration of the Japanese media, especially television media, has reached its limit.
Since I mostly watch only NHK news programs, NHK is the target in this essay, but I imagine the commercial broadcasters are in an even worse state.
As I have stated many times, what prevents the spread of the Wuhan virus is avoiding the Three Cs, keeping distance from others, wearing masks, and washing one’s hands frequently with disinfectant or soap.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is nothing else.
Those who forced an event with 6,000 people at Saitama Arena on March 22, and pachinko parlors that ignored requests and continued operating, places that are the very embodiment of the Three Cs, would probably have been arrested for attempted murder in any advanced country other than Japan.
The thing called PCR testing is nothing more than a spectacle begun by Moon Jae-in of South Korea, a country that had completely failed in its initial epidemic defense and fallen into an overshoot, for election purposes and as an excuse to foreign countries.
Testing can be done while people remain in their cars.
How on earth does such a thing help prevent the spread of infection?
Even an elementary school child can understand that it has nothing to do with how to deal with this strange and unidentified virus.
The test was done.
The result was negative.
How does that prevent the spread of infection?
Even if totalitarian-state-style surveillance like China’s were started on those who tested positive, what would happen if that person, before being tested, had casually gone to K-1, pachinko parlors, or any place where people gather?
Why should Japan, the greatest country in the world, imitate the absurd behavior of countries such as South Korea and China?
Why do the media mentioned at the beginning follow a country such as South Korea?
Their stupidity has reached its extreme.