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In light of concerns about a spread of variant strains in the future, another state of emergency may well have to be declared during the national holidays in May.

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Satoshi Hori, a professor of infection control at Tokyo's Juntendo University. Experts have raised concerns about a rebound in new infections as people start venturing out once the state of emergency is lifted nationwide.

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How about they get on the immunization of the population like other countries are doing instead this utterly useless state of emergency declarations and extensions?

They've had a entire year to cook up a roll out plan for these shots and they did jack.

The incompetency in the political sphere of this country is staggering.

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A voice of reason and sanity. What a welcome breath of fresh air

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robert maesToday 08:25 am JST

A voice of reason and sanity. What a welcome breath of fresh air

This. Spot on.

But our government doesn't listen to voices of reason, sanity or just people with rationality. They rather listen to some random oyaji from a different field of working. They have proven it so many times in the past.

Instead of learning from mistakes being done in Europe, USA or just any other part of the world and using the advantage of things happening here with a delay, our dear leaders rather have to do it the unique way. The more erratic, the better, it seems.

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To be honest I am still undecided to be onboard with the olympics or not, but a SoE on May would be the final stone in its grave, there is no way the games can be held after that (or worse, if the games have to happen there is no way May will have an SoE).

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And what exactly is it, that is completely different after those May holidays? What did the next set of Tarot cards say that professor about it? lol

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The situation this year is completely different, as long as doctors and scientists are on board with the new measures that is fine.

A complete different situation would be if the measures were based on fake evidence that somebody wanted to pass as genuine, like false, inexistent transcripts, lol.

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William RoundMar. 4, 2021  07:53 pm JST

To be honest I am still undecided to be onboard with the olympics or not, but a SoE on May would be the final stone in its grave, there is no way the games can be held after that (or worse, if the games have to happen there is no way May will have an SoE).

Interesting to look back and see the SOE was extended to the end of May 2021; but the games went on.

https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_japan-extends-covid-19-state-emergency-may-31/6205557.html

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Not really, at some point people realized the organizers were too deep and would have no shame to contradict themselves and do anything to hold the games.

Still, not as shameless as going to a comment a year back in "revenge" for someone commenting how a fake transcript used as an argument did not exist at all, THAT would be too much even for them lol

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Just continue this one straight through Golden Week

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In light of concerns about a spread of variant strains in the future, another state of emergency may well have to be declared during the national holidays in May

Many more cases this year, but no concern.

They pulled a fast one on us.

William RoundApr. 29  04:25 pm JST

Not really, at some point people realized the organizers were too deep and would have no shame to contradict themselves and do anything to hold the games.

Nah, nothing like that.

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