BREAKING: Japan declares #Covid19 state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures.

[YoshidaYui]

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. And they insist on olympics?

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Putting The U.S. Athletes In Difficult Position

The U.S. Olympic committee is going to look like the bad guy if we refuse to send our athletes to compete, and they go ahead with the games.

Prudent thing would be to delay them, but you know.

$$$$$$$$$$$

That's probably the primary motivator. Human Life and the health of athletes from around the world is secondary.

[BigmanPigman]

3. 30% increase in both new cases and new deaths in past week.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/

Their cases have continued to increase since March 1st.

How is their vaccine rollout going?

[weissmam]

4. you would think they would

nail the vaccine rollout ,I mean the japan , come on

[BigmanPigman]

5. I know, I'm surprised,

especially for a country so advanced and controlled. The other thing is that the residents in Japan are historically known for wearing masks so that can't be an attitude problem for them like it is with so many "western" countries.