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Thoughts On Why COVID-19 Was Easier On Japanese People Than U.S. Residents

Or … could it be the US for-profit healthcare system, food system, Big Pharma, social decay, activity levels, and … yeah …

Amy Sterling Casil
8 min readNov 8, 2022

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I recently saw a health professional ask via Twitter why Japan’s COVID-19 metrics are so much better than the appalling U.S. record of serious illness and death during the global pandemic. The “replies” were moronic bleats divided between, “Trump,” “Mask and vaccine deniers,” and a combination thereof, with a healthy dose of “Americans are sociopaths!” It was almost 100% about U.S. politics and zero percent about any actual measurable metrics and health.

While there are many American sociopaths, most in positions of power in industry, healthcare, and government, I’m pretty sure few, to none of the 1.1 million U.S. people who died from COVID-19 were any more sociopathic than anyone else in the world population.

U.S. Poor Health Measures + COVID-19

I’m giving serious consideration to becoming a wellness coach, and I do not even need any classroom education to know that telling a person with prediabetes, high blood pressure, and a BMI of over 35 that they are going to die of COVID because they are questioning vaccine…

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.

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