The new coronavirus is an unknown infectious disease for which conventional wisdom does not apply.

Cholera, dysentery, and influenza could be easily contained with the measures taken over the past year.

However, this new coronavirus is a pathogen with "unexpected" infectivity and lethality with a question of "What the hell kind of devil manufactured this?"

So, if I were to talk only about this issue, I would say, "Is the government's response really that bad?

If I were a politician, I'm not sure I could take any other measures.

At least, our prime minister is,

(1)not the kind of moron who gets infected right before a presidential election,

(2)not the dictator who is ridiculed by the world for saying things like, "There are no infected people in our country"

(3)not the president who says things like "it's just a cold" and "we're all going to die", like a small-brain animal,

(4)not the president who has ever said, "We have conquered this through prayer," or come up with some crazy theory like, "We don't have coronary infections in our country" because they didn't do PCR testing.

Yeah, when I pick up on it like this, I can clearly see that "politicians with intelligence problems" can be a terrible menace to the people.

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Of course, it is true that these politicians and bureaucrats in our country are enraging me(us) and disappointing me (us).

However, I think it is not a good idea to equate their actions with the government's response to the new coronavirus.

Because this new coronavirus is akin to an "all-out attack on humanity by unknown extraterrestrial life forms".

Against such an unknown enemy, there is no way to formulate the "right strategy" from the beginning.

As I wrote here, the vaccines for the new coronaviruses (especially the mRNA vaccine) were made by incredible luck.

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I'm not saying that only "'those who can raise the issue before it arises' are allowed to criticize"

Only with regard to this new coronavirus countermeasure, I think we should give some thought to whether or not we can make the same kind of criticism of the previous problems.

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By the way,

The representative of the Rikken Democratic Party, Yukio Edano, made a statement that "the worst is the governor of Osaka" (please Google the content to find out).

So, if I may be so bold, I would like to make a suggestion to the Governor of Osaka Prefecture, Hirofumi Yoshimura.

Why don't you make a comment like the following?

"Yes, it is. Osaka may be in a kind of 'meltdown' right now"

"I wish the corona was something that could be predicted by something like the System for Prediction of Effects of Radiation Emergency (SPEEDI)"

"If a politician or chief cabinet secretary does not tell the people about such life-threatening matters as soon as possible, he or she should at least commit suicide by cutting his or her stomach"