Governor Nagasaki: he does it for your health, not his.
The last time we went to Yamanashi Prefecture (pop 820,000), Governor Kotaro Nagasaki (the guy governing a place you’ve never heard of but named after a place you most certainly have) was telling the unvaccinated not to leave the house, for their own safety of course.
He cares about not only the health of the unjabbed also their rights too.
Some readers may think this is ridiculously inconsistent, but encouraging is legally diffrent from discriminating, so there’s really no problem here.
So how at risk are the unvaccinated Yamanashi adults whose health and human rights Gov Nagasaki clearly cares so much about? The below table [source] gives the number of PCR positives between 1 Jan-16 April 2022 in Yamanashi by vaccination status. I can’t imagine why they origianlly left out the infection rate for unjabbed and single-jabbed over 12s (4.275%), but I’m sure it’s not becuase it’s lower than that of double-jabbed over 12s (4.953%).
But Gov Nagasaki doesn’t limit his concerns to unjabbed adults. He also cares so much about the health of Yamanashi’s youth that he requested that schools have students wear masks during extracurricular activites such as sports training to keep them safe from Covid.
But before you think, “Er, doesn’t that increase the risk of heat stroke, dehydration, and even death?”, don’t worry. Gov Nagasaki has the perfect solution.
Mask-wearing during club activities. Heat-stroke etc. is a worry, so Gov Nagasaki says “Find ways to lower the intensity of trainning”.
If only all decision-makers were as wise as Kotaro, past tragedies could have been averted.
Kotaro himself avoids these risks by not exercising in the first place.
But despite being constantly masked and triple-jabbed, Gov Nagasaki become Japan’s first governor to test positive for Covid.
Yamanashi Governor positive for Covid, has a fever. Depuy governor will take over.
As you can imaging, this prompted an outpouring of sympathy on Japanese Covid twitter.
So let’s hope he recovers soon. But even if he doesn’t, it’s not like provincial Japan lacks high-quality political talent.
