Japan - Indonesia - Slovenia
"In Japan they follow the measures and don't have such idiots as we do. With them a warning is enough, no need to back it up with law, they follow it anyway."
Whoever writes such epidemiological nonsense in three days, it applies to him: Who despises gets despised himself, the basis is the enemy's heel.
The goal of epidemiological measures is to limit the spread of infections and consequently hospitalizations and deaths. In Covid Worldometer you can see the infection spread curves for each country. The first curve, total confirmed cases, has an S shape. The flatter and smoother the curve, the more the epidemic is under control. The second curve, daily cases, has a bell shape. The more peaked, narrow and high this curve is, the more infections follow natural laws. The goal of restrictive measures is to flatten this curve.
You need to know this: data in worldometer are only a reflection of some pandemic, confirmed cases are only part of all infected, the more testing, the closer confirmed cases get to actual infections. Japan did 4 times fewer tests per million inhabitants than Slovenia.
If we compare the curves of Japan and Indonesia, especially in the last wave they have a similar course. Both disciplined Japan and relaxed Indonesia survived the last wave similarly. So the shape of the curve in the last wave is not a result of discipline. If Indonesia had the last wave, for Japan it's a question whether it happened to them too or they allowed it. Both countries introduced ivermectin for covid treatment.
Various explanations for such a course appear. It will probably turn out that the key is what German-American epidemiologist and biostatistician Knut Wittkowski said at the beginning of the pandemic (and was immediately buried in a landslide of criticism): a respiratory infection epidemic goes through the population and in 6 weeks it's all over. During this time vulnerable groups need protection, if everyone protects themselves, vulnerable have no advantage anymore.
If we look at the daily cases curve for Slovenia, we see that after introducing measures in autumn, the curve is distinctly flattened. Slovenes allowed themselves a little relaxation only for New Year. Comparison with all neighboring countries Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia shows that Slovenes followed measures the most. Even more than Danes or Irish or Portuguese. Of course the question is at what infection height to start restricting - dr. Beović said they missed it? For such behavior Slovenes got no praise, quite the opposite they were blamed for chaos in nursing homes and hospitals, which are fully in state's domain. But if the state pokes into every hairdresser or gym, it lacks time for essential problems. For Slovenia it showed that people faithfully followed measures for a long time, infections didn't rise, but it didn't bring real results, moreover no lower mortality, we wasted directly 1 billion euros and lost 4 billion euros GDP. Regardless of all these blunders we boldly go forward, guilty will be the nation anyway.
But we do have many idiots e.g. young doctor running in the forest with a mask, or doctor horrified by open stove, while in one nursing home more covid patients lie than in all hospitals. But dr. Dušan Keber wrote in Delo's Saturday supplement 6.11.: Citizens contributed the most, who in fear of unknown disease behaved very self-protectively.