Extra Virgin Palm Oil comments

So, is the Japanese government going to shift its enormous funding subsidies to a domestic pharmaceutical company who can make RNA vaccines, or is it just going to keep pumping money into this lost cause?

--By lost cause I mean the vintage chimpanzee-based adenovirus vaccine, not the vintage lost cause occupying the prime minister throne.

I wish Mrs. Oil and I could have been there.

It seems like a once-in-a lifetime chance.

I've been completely bewildered why so many mistakes have been made.

And very distressed by the careless destruction of so many Japanese people's lives and businesses.

All this pandemic kabuki and intimidation, for such little return for so few people in power.

Thank you, Japan Today, for publishing this, but I think that almost no one will read it.

Tell me when we've triumphed over anything.

Well, that's a lie.

And then there's this:

(T)he government's job is to tackle challenges.

The key word there is "tackle" NOT "poke someone else's finger into"

Overwhelming problems require overwhelming solutions, not overwhelmingly empty vows and pledges.

And lies.

LOL.

Tell that to Julius Ssekitoleko, if you can find find him.

Last seen buying a shinkansen ticket to Nagoya.

Cold fresh cucumber slices dipped in your favorite miso sauce with a bottle of ice-cold beer (Asahi is my preference) makes summer a good friend.

One look at this hastily-prepared hotel conference room with its fold-up PTA banquet tables and loose, mismatched carpet tiles and I know that yes, this is going to be the best-ever.

If they were all wearing green toilet slippers, I would give this photo a chef's kiss.

I hear you, Kawaguchi-san.

We were all originally hoping for some kind of benefit from the Games.

Or now, at least some competent leadership and management through the crisis.

tone down Olympic-related festivities

LOL this, from tone-deaf leadership

What a mess. Let's look at the truth.

--"126 on Tuesday compared with 1,200 in mid-May."

Mid-May Osaka numbers ranged from 851 (5/12) to 415 (5/21). There was a 1262 high on 05/01 but it continued to fall since that day.

The number was 40 on July 28, but now, just over a week later, it's 151.

With no vaccine and no leadership we are now headed toward disaster.

That's all well and good, but how do the magnets taste?

So, what happens when the car-chasing dog finally catches a car?

"Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a vibrating object ... always use the indefinite article 'a vibrating object', never 'your vibrating object'."

yo, burningbush & blacklabel, so you think it was perfectly ok for the e-mail lady to erase her home server?

"they can do whatever they want" except vaccinate their employees.

Sounds like somebody needs to smoke a joint and relax.

Right next to this story is the headline:

Tokyo Olympics still undecided on fans -- or no fans at all

and it's this kind of "janken" leadership that really salts my sushi

Marty!

The Time Indicator is showing that it's now June 2021, but these government officials are speaking and acting as if it's early 2020!

Great Scott!

PM Suga, you still don't get it.

The "heat" is for ignoring the urgent need for a rapid and well-organized vaccine rollout, instead of your singular focus on and continual promises for a "perfect" Olympics.

Your getting vaccinated and running off to the US for "Burgers with Biden" was insult to injury.

it should be International Day, and on that day everyone here should be encouraged to acknowledge and celebrate the cultural gifts from abroad that has made Japan so great, as well as enjoy the continuing rich cultural heritage that Japan shares with the world.

LOL

who could have imagined that killing the middle class goose

would stop the golden eggs?

Roblib:

There will be tens of thousands of unvaccinated Japanese people acting as support workers and volunteers for the games. They will be going home every night and coming back to the Olympic site every day.

This great news. Everyone is going to get priority over everybody!

Every day I come to the Japan Today website to read virusrex's comments.

They have always been calm and informed, over the past year of panic and misinformation, and I'm grateful for this.

The world needs more virusrexes, and I wish him/her fair winds and following seas always.

the government earlier Tuesday crafted a long-term national strategy on vaccine development

Yeah, early Tuesday was a good time to do this

It's mind-boggling that they are just now waking up to this realization.

Where have their heads been for the last year and a half?

between September 2014 and last January, the man had broken into 164 residences

This guy had 164 new passkeys made while nobody noticed or became suspicious?

But when can we realistically expect to have 80-90% of the population in Japan vaccinated?

the AstraZeneca shot has the advantage of being storable in refrigerators between 2 and 8 C, making it easier to distribute than its rivals, which must be kept in freezers at temperatures as low as around minus 75 C.

This is just poor reporting. The Moderna vaccine can be kept for 30 days in refrigerators between 2 and 8 C, and for 4 months at -20 C. Stop the disinformation.

Quack-quack-quack!

Vaccine pls.