I advised the government to put off its decision as I saw a need to prepare a convincing explanation backed by evidence by analyzing the results of epidemiological research into Japan's coronavirus infection situation. But my advice was not accepted.

Therein lies the problem. People like Abe and Nishimura are in the lead, not medical experts.

Part of the problem also is that he should have already analyzed the results of the epidemiological research to have a convincing explanation to back up his advice

It's Go To square one again, the way this country is heading.

@Pukey2

Nice.

So the boys up the top squashed the pretty much self-evident recommendation to NOT GoTo, and made the call. Tells everything right there. Incompetent, and more harm than good. Get your act together fellas, please!

Actually, just do whatever the scientist ask you too. Self serving idiot politicians that have got away with color coded slogans and thin air until now should kindly step aside. Bring in the experts, admit to your underlings that you are as clueless as they are, and let the experts in their science and medical fields gather and decide the best strategy to deal with COVID from here. It’s never to late to make the better calls!

Some of these outdated polis surround themselves with yesmen who wouldn’t speak up even if they knew it were wrong so there’s no surprise they’ve dropped the ball on this one,

gambare!

''Self serving idiot politicians that have got away with color coded slogans and thin air until now should kindly step aside.''

I would have said....should kindly be prosecuted.

amazing how the Abe and Trump administrations are similar. both are run by populist demagogues and both don't listen to the advice of the medical experts