Gov Omura: a pharma sales rep moonlighting as a politician
Aichi's governor is not just an ugly face
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post that might have suggested that Hideaki Omura, the governor of Aichi Prefecture (pop 7.5 mil, including Nagoya, Japan’s fourth largest city), was a more serious, intellectually capable politician than the painfully cretinous governors of rural backwaters like Tottori, Shimane, and Akita. In this post, I’d like to clarify that he’s in fact one of Japan’s most enthusiastic advocates for pointless non-pharmaceutical interventions and harmful pharmaceutical ones.
Less than a week after introducing quasi-emergency measures (QEM) on 21st Jan, he suggested yet another state of emergency (SoE) declaration might be necessary in Japan’s major urban areas: “Since the booster campaign isn’t progressing, we need to tighten restrictions to suppress (infections).”
He followed this up on 1 Feb: “Cases are certain to go up tomorrow and the day after, so the only thing to do is declare a state of emergency, get citizens and business owners to put up with tight restrictions, and during that time, jab away.”
Unfortunately for him, since the national government and other governors weren’t interested in making people put up with restrictions stronger than early bar and restaurant closures, Hideaki had to settle for banning extracurricular activities at Aichi schools instead.
No doubt surprisingly to Gov Omura, actual infections in Aichi peaked and declined without the tighter restrictions he wanted and before his beloved booster campaign really got going.
[Original graph from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/10900000/000913228.pdf]
As you can probably tell, Gov Omura likes to promote the Covid vaccines at every opportunity. Here he is in September 2021 recommending young people get jabbed, touting the fraudulent claim of 95% effectiveness.
And here he is more recently doing his part to reduce Japan’s out-dated vaccine stockpile.
Predictably, this pharma sales rep pretending to be a politician has also recommended vaccines for 5-11 year olds: “During group activities at schools, if a highly infectious disease appears, there’s an exceptionally high risk of it spreading, so I’d like as many children as possible to be vaccinated.”
[https://www.tokai-tv.com/tokainews/article_20220222_16251]
His claim that the vaccines will prevent infections during activities at schools will be news to Aichi’s junior-high and high school students, whom he banned from doing such activities to prevent infections even after the majority got vaccinated.
Luckily for them, Gov Omura has a solution: a third jab! After all, he’s only following bulk orders.
