Did Japan Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass Testing?
 

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Japan's state of emergency is nearing its end with new cases of the coronavirus dwindling to mere dozens. It got there despite largely ignoring the default playbook.

No restrictions were put on residents movements,and businesses from restaurants to hairdressers stayed open. No high-tech apps that tracked people’s movements were deployed. The country doesn’t have a center for disease control. And even as nations were exhorted to “test, test, test,” Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population -- one of the lowest rates among developed countries.

Yet the curve has been flattened, with deaths well below 1,000, by far the fewest among the group of seven developed nations. In Tokyo, it's dense center, cases have dropped to single digits on most days. While the possibility of a more severe second wave of infection is ever-present, Japan has entered and is set to leave its emergency in just weeks, with the status already lifted for most of the country and likely to exit completely as early as Monday.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

The curve looks very similar to countries/cities that have locked down.
Begs further analysis.

Yes exactly my point.

Agreed, I would comment further but don’t think I could say it better.