Japan did not lock down. They shut down for a few weeks. You need to educate yourself a little better.

The reason other countries had the huge spike and then drop is because it largely ran it's course while they were ineffectually bumbling around trying to figure out what to do. It ran it's course like any other illness does. Now they are past it and moving on. We, on the other hand, are dragging it out by playing tiddly winks with it. If we just open up, let it run it's course, just like the flu, the problem will go away eventually. But no, we need to crush the economy to get an agenda pushed and that's exactly what is going to play out. Damned if I'm wearing a mask unless it's absolutely necessary.. Not happening. I needed to get tags and pick up my ccp so I had to mask up long enough to do that and then it's off again. Drove to Shelby county for lunch. Won't spend one damned penny in Jefferson that I don't have to. I hate it for the business owners. It sux for them. They need to band together, get an attorney and sue the county commission for dereliction of duty. The health officer should have zero power to do a damned thing other that suggest to the commission they pass a statute. Instead they give him full power to hurt anyone he chooses for any reason he chooses. That's bulldoodoo. I've already offered to send $300 to any attorney someone can point me to that will file that lawsuit. People need to be held accountable and the JCC has been completely absent to reign in the health officer.