COVID Update From Japan
Added 2022-01-10 00:33:20 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-HrsdwA4k
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Sorry to hear about the disease getting worse there again. Still, getting only around 6000 cases in a country with such a high population is not bad. It could be worse. Last Friday, it was reported that we had around 10 000 new cases of COVID, despite Japan having 25 times the population of our country, and us also having lower population density. And yes, the effects on peoples' livelihoods are devastating, but we really have to look at the bigger picture. Are we to ignore the people who lose their life to the disease and let people do their business as usual, or can businesses act responsibly and prevent any further spread of the virus? To me, the latter is more sensible. No matter how you put it, public places like bars and restaurants attract people together. Even with all COVID precautions, nothing will truly prevent the transmission, apart from staying home. Lost lives will be forever gone, whilst a bad financial situation will only be temporary. There will always be new business opportunities in the future. Closing earlier and shortening service hours is likely employed in order to make it undesirable to go and eat outdoors. Preventing people from going at the most popular hours will discourage people from going, for example, if evening hours are your only free time: why go at all, if the dang thing is closed? Though I see your point also; keeping the service hours the same, or even lengthening them could cause people to not populate restaurants and bars as much at the same time. However, can you trust the average citizen to not go to a busy bar? In here you can't. That's why restaurants and bars are closed for the time being. And the business owners are rightfully upset about that. But who can you blame, really? Lastly, the point about the disease ending in 2022. Call me cynical, but I don't think it will. In my view, the only way out of this hell is through vaccines. As long as a significant enough group won't take them, the disease will remain a nuisance. Also, not donating enough vaccines to poor countries is making matters worse. WHO's Director General was a bit too optimistic or naive in my opinion, when whe proclaimed the disease will (or must) be gone by the end of 2022. There needs to be a major change in thinking of the governments in our world, to get rid of this pest for good. As much as I'd like that to happen, we don't live in Utopia.
zclyenthusiast
2022-01-10 13:55:28 +0000 UTCI am waiting for the BUG LIBERATION MOVEMENT to start (let my bugs free or bugs have a right to life also) you know dogs and cats can transmit the virus ??
Stephen Mortimer
2022-01-10 08:48:09 +0000 UTC
