Yet another idiotic governor

In contrast to the moronic governor of Tottori and annoying governor Shimane who propose stupid policies that lower the quality of life of all age groups, the governor of Akita (pop 960,000), Norihisa Satake (74), mainly focuses his dumb proposals towards children. 

On Feb 15, Gov. Satake called for the national government to close schools nationwide for a week, saying, “If we don’t, infections won’t settle down.” Of course, infections were already going down and continued to do so even though the government ignored his random ramblings.

And it’s not like nationwide school closures worked the last time. Clearly, remembering what happened two years ago is too much for the old fart.

Old Norihisa recommends not only meritless non-pharmaceutical interventions aimed at kids but pharmaceutical ones too. Regarding vaccinations for 5-11 year olds, Gov. Satake said “The national government doesn’t think it’s a big deal whether kids get the vaccine or not. That’s worrying. Kids with pre-existing conditions are a separate issue, but I want children without them to get vaccinated.”

[https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/325447]

Since vaccine effectiveness for 5-11 year olds drops to -41% after 42 days, he presumably wants more kids to catch Covid.

[https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.25.22271454v1]

Akita is the prefecture with the largest share of population over 65. And with an old idiot like Gov. Satake in charge, the surprise isn’t that so few young people remain there; it’s that they haven’t all left.