Outside of TERF island, some European countries and the US, vaccine rates are very low generally. Which is why the current Covid 19 discourse is very confusing, because you have no idea where someone is coming from, both literally and figuratively.
The US has one of the greatest vaccination rates, wtf you talking about?
Outside of [TERF island, some European countries and the US] vaccine rates are very low generally. He meant it like this.
It's not some kind of antivaxx movement but it's just general hesitation to vaccinations in a non-conspiratory way.
Incidentally, the plaza she’s in is the site of loud, day-long anti-vaxxer rallies every weekend.
I thought that was going to be the subject of the video.
I've heard there is some part of Japan that is hesitant of any "foreign medicine" and requires anything being introduced into the country to undergo their own Japanese studies because they think they have some sort of unique body that doesn't work like others but that sort of thing, like a lot of BS tends to mostly be the older generations. But since the older generations are still the ones who dominate politics (especially in a lot of Asian countries) they fuck up a lot of stuff that you would think they shouldn't.
I read in the Japan Times, which I can't verify its statements, but it said it was their perfectionist culture fucking up the vaccination efforts on the part of the government on top government officials not taking it seriously at all there.
I recall some event being mentioned but I can't remember exactly what it was. The hesitancy was there already by the swine flu IIRC.
Japan makes South Korea look like the North in terms of economics and worker protection
That's only true when the vaccine has been established for years, because the great majority of the population wants to get vaccinated.
Right now, the greatest impediments for vaccination are financial means, regulatory contracts and logistics.
As an example, New Zealand has one of the greatest emergency responses to covid, but very low vaccination rate. Likely due to lack of funds while not demanding so much for it, but that last sentence is just a guess.
Japan did good at the start of the pandemic by just keeping people out, but that made them severely underestimate vaccine production.
Well yeah it is concerning, like she said most people want Japan to cancel the Olympics.
I heard from the weebs on the trash taste podcast, video here, start it at 11:37 to hear about it discuss the Japanese pandemic response as being basically nonexistent.
From how they phrased it, they basically made it sound like their government is constitutionally incapable of actually doing a hard lock down and is unable to legally order businesses to actually shut down.
If I recall they've had more than a dozen "lockdowns" with minor legalese dumb rules to try and persuade people to not go out ranging from barring restaurants from selling alcohol after a certain time, which they can ignore and just pay a fine, etc.
All this confirmed for me is that the Japanese government still fucking sucks lmao
It's true. If you don't order hot coffee, half the time you will get a cold cup of coffee. I'd always forget and be shattered emotionally when they sat the cold coffee down.
