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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2020.SoftBank's Son asks people on Twitter whether state of emergency should be declared
By Sam Nussey TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Mocheake
The people voting in favor are smarter than the bureaucracy, but we already knew that. Maybe Son can use some of his considerable influence to push them into doing the right thing now before it gets out of control. I don't recommend anyone holding their breath.
Alex80
A CEO of an IT giant that asks for emergency state, that would boost anything internet related. There's no any conflict of interests in this.
JeffLee
Son staked most of his investment empire (funded mostly by other people's money) on the sharing economy. Right now, "sharing" is the last thing people should do. This crisis threatens to take down his floundering Vision Fund once and for all-- no wonder he's so concerned.
Kag
Most businesses are already treating it as state of emergency. Most have already closed or changed their business hours, the businesses here are more humane than I would have thought.
therougou
In that case, us foreigners are screwed. Here in Hyogo, they are planning to restart schoools... The governor is an old stubborn guy who told the Osaka governor he was overreacting...
ZENJI
Being a pragmatic cynic, I would suggest that trump has involvement in this.
Abe -san is being pressured by trump NOT to go to a full declaration of Emergency, because it would make trump look "stupid", as if trump needed any help anyway.
therougou
That is great, until they start passing it to their parents and grandparents. And one of the major hospitals is already understaffed because someone working there got the virus.