Gov't panel OKs adding Wakayama Prefecture to COVID quasi-emergency

As someone who rarely eats out or goes out drinking the state of emergency has not imposed any change on me at all.

This is not a boast but how absurd these quasi emergencies are.

The measure will allow the governor of Wakayama to ask dining establishments to shorten their business hours and limit or stop the serving of alcohol. 

That's going to really help tamp down those infection clusters in schools, isn't it? Something like a quarter of today's reported infections in Tokyo are in school-age children and young people.

Far more urbanized Nara, on Osaka’s doorstep and having a larger proportion of residents who daily commute into Osaka, and with nearly double Wakayama’s daily case count, isn’t one of the declared zones. Safe as houses Nara is!

Critical increase weekly by only 10-20% but deaths grow at a much faster pace nearly every day.

A. The playing down of the severity has been a lie.

B. Critical cases have been left out of the numbers purposely to save face.

C. Japan could really not GAF anymore as long as money keeps moving.

D. All of the above.

Do they really think that closing bars and restaurants a couple of hours earlier and handing out cash to them will solve this

I don't think they do. This is posturing to seem like they are doing something. Rather than actually useful policies that would require them to work like increase hospital capacity, deregulate vaccination requirements to allow pharmacies to do it without prior registration, stagger working hours of major companies, reduce paperwork in government and private sector... But if they could do any of these Japan wouldn't be Japan as we know it.

Bugger all cases in Wakayama. Seems ott.

Thé quasi emergency does little to stop infections even for the fully vaccinated