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Japan doesn't do an awful lot of useless PCR testing. That's how they "crushed covid". Somewhere between a fifth and a tenth of what the States does.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart&country=JPN~USA~GBR

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Who funds ourworldindata. It's most convenient that the data is provided by the various Gov health authorities who are funded by the very same institution. They are colluding to create a number scare using a fictitious test not fit for purpose. https://ourworldindata.org/funding

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Thanks, Jack.

"Our World in Data is supported by grants from the Quadrature Climate Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a grant from the German entrepreneur, businesswoman and philanthropist Susanne Klatten.

In the past we have also received grants from the World Health Organization, the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom, the Centre for Effective Altruism – Effective Altruism Meta Fund, and the Nuffield Foundation."

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Oceania is at war with East Asia. It has always been at war with East Asia.

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