Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced a state of emergency in Tokyo due to a spike in coronavirus infections.
Fumie Sakamoto, an infection control manager at St. Luke’s International Hospital in the city, said there are too many cases to trace at the moment and the “state of emergency is coming too late.”
The New York Times reported that Suga has been accused of taking too long to declare the emergency.
The Jiji Press, the country’s news agency, reported that shortly after Suga announced the emergency, crowds seemed to be unfazed, and the city’s metropolitan area looked like its usual Saturday.
A Tokyo resident interviewed told the news agency he saw more people out and about than at the beginning of the outbreak in April. He also said he doesn’t have much fear of the disease because he doesn’t know anyone who has been diagnosed.
The Times reported that as of last weekend, the country of 126.5 million recorded a total of 258,393 cases and 3,746 deaths.
Reuters reported that the month-long declaration encompasses Tokyo and three nearby prefectures. Residents have been asked to stay indoors after 8 PM unless they have an urgent reason to leave. The report said many owners of small restaurants have suffered financially since the beginning of the outbreak, and the second emergency order will be another thrashing.
“Customers usually start flocking in around seven. If we can only serve alcohol until seven, there’s no point in staying open in the evening,” the manager of Setouchi Lemon Shokudo told Reuters.
He said the business is down about 70 percent since early 2020, and it makes business sense to stay closed. “The damage is less if we close,” he said.
TRENDPOST: Once again, facts don’t matter – fear, control, and hysteria do. Since the COVID War began last February, there have been 640 virus victims in Tokyo, a city of 14 million… or 0.00457 percent of the population.
As we reported in the Trends Journal in November, as a result of economic pressures from the virus lockdowns, more Japanese committed suicide in October than died of the virus in all of 2020.
A report from the CDC last summer found that one in ten respondents had seriously considered suicide the previous month, twice the rate observed in 2018. In America, among 18-to 24-years-olds, the rate was one in four.
A study by the British Journal of Psychiatry last October found that thoughts of suicide had increased during the first six weeks of lockdown, with women and young adults affected the worst.
Yet, the lockdowns, which have not worked before and are being re-imposed… are killing millions more businesses, lives, and livelihoods than the virus.
