Disappointing local government heads - Coronavirus and Olympics

On July 28, 2021, right in the middle of the Tokyo Olympics, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported as follows.

On the 29th, the government decided to issue a state of emergency to Osaka Prefecture, which is applying "priority measures such as prevention of spread" as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, and to Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa prefectures. The period is until August 31st. Priority measures will be applied to Hokkaido, Hyogo, Kyoto, Ishikawa, and Fukuoka prefectures. The government told the ruling party executives.

　 Currently, the declaration has been issued to Tokyo and Okinawa prefectures until August 22, but the deadline will be extended to the 31 days.

Prime Minister Suga

On the evening of the 29th, Prime Minister Suga announced to reporters that he would decide on a government response on the 30th after consulting with his relevant ministers at his prime minister's office.

The prime minister said, "We are responding with a strong sense of crisis. We would like to respond firmly in each region while advancing vaccination so as not to cause an insufficient bed availability."

The total number of corona deaths in Japan over the last two years is 15,000. This is not much different from twice the number of influenza deaths each year.

The population of the United States is 2.6 times that of Japan. However, the total number of corona deaths is 610,000.

East Asians are more resistant to the coronavirus. Moreover, influenza is almost extinct. 0731-21

It's not something you can brag about to the world. But politicians should have taken more courage to keep their economy from declining.

Sweden has taken the courage to lift the restrictions on behavior, but the death toll has not risen sharply. In other developed countries, there is a movement to deregulate, although it may be a vaccine premise.

It is disappointing that the heads of local governments such as Osaka ask the central government to issue a declaration as if to escape responsibility. At first I saw the governor of Osaka as an independent person, but now he is a completely different person.