Japan to lift Tokyo area state of emergency as planned on Sunday

The numbers are going back up, so sure ~ Why not lift the State Of Emergency? What could possibly happen?

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I dont think the S.O.E was effective....its just people cooperation and discipline....instead of imposing state of emerģency in coming future gov should focus on educating people and request them to do things which are compulsory like wearing masks, washing hands frequenltly and refraining from crowded places as far as possible.

Predictably they ended it - it's clear the numbers have not been coming down the last 3 weeks, so the SOE has reached the limit of its usefulness in being able to get the numbers down further. Obviously the numbers will now head back up, but I guess the government is just hoping there wont be an explosive surge again.

I don't think they have any plan on how to stop another surge, but because they have from the very beginning, taken whack-a-mole approach to this pandemic, its not surprising they are now just basically throwing in the towel and hoping for the best.

But the daily tally for Tokyo remains far from Governor Yuriko Koike's target of reducing the seven-day average to 70% or lower than the preceding week.

Koike is absolutely hopeless - she sets all these targets (some of which she ignores if it suits), but her only strategy on achieving them is her repeating ad nauseam to wash your hands and remember the three C's. Oh, she also likes to hold up cards with silly catch phrases on them, like she's trying to explain something to a child.

A complete failure of the government that's costing 50+ lives daily

Here are the number of deaths in Tokyo alone from 2000 to 2019. 120,870 deaths in 2019 alone (so before the COVID-19), that's thousands per day. And you are saying that 50+ deaths daily from COVID-19 are significant enough to justify what kind of action exactly? Makes no sense, it's totally irrational and quite silly to be honest. Or maybe you decided somehow that death is not acceptable anymore.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1012479/japan-number-deaths-tokyo/

So how about GoTo? I have a trip planned that I would appreciate the discount on.

What a smart virus. It only comes out at night, and in small businesses. But it does not spread in crowded trains, buses, shopping malls, etc. And the high visiting dignitaries are exempted from the quarantine.

Right before hanami season, Japanese people can now think 'we are safe'.

There will be very little in way of hanami. The trees are being fenced and parks boarded.

Its not a full back to normal.

Why not? The people have been treating things like it's "back to normal" for a while anyway.

The numbers are going back up, so sure ~ Why not lift the State Of Emergency? What could possibly happen?

Tell us How you think Covid only roams around after 8pm. Please, enlighten me.

Finally, this insanity comes to an end.

Restaurants are crowded as hell these days, because everyone has to go before 7:30 when they shut down. In what universe does that help stop a virus infection?