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Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Japan, the Japanese government has attempted to orchestrate a coherent nationwide response to the public health crisis, but with mixed results. In the following, I examine the government’s COVID-19 response from January 2020, when the first cases were reported, to March 3 of this year, when Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide announced another extension of the state of emergency for the Tokyo region. After a brief description of the legal framework for government action in such a crisis, I offer a chronological account of steps taken by two successive administrations, the Abe administration and the Suga administration, and the obstacles they encountered at the local level owing to systemic constraints on the prime minister’s powers in responding to the pandemic crisis.
By Lauren C. Williams
Apr 06, 2021
When the pandemic hit, some Defense Department component agencies got off to a rocky start moving their staff and workloads to maximum telework, according to a new report from the DOD inspector general.
In the IG’s survey of nearly 55,000 DOD workers during the early days and months of the pandemic, teleworkers reported issues with spotty network connectivity to DOD component networks, slow network speeds and software malfunctions as the department pivoted to maximum telework.
Some teleworkers (about 14%) struggled to get necessary government-furnished equipment, such as printers, Wi-Fi hotspots or the tools needed for off-site classified work.
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Are the Media Telling the Truth About Wearing Masks
By Paul Dowling
“This is the reality: those who insist that universal mask usage has absolutely proven effective at controlling the spread of the COVID virus and is universally recommended according to ‘the science’ are deliberately ignoring the evidence to the contrary. It is they who are propagating false and misleading information. Those who say it is unethical, even dangerous, to question broad population mask mandates must also explain why many top infectious disease scientists and public health organizations question the efficacy of general population masking.” – Dr. Scott Atlas, in Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College, February 2021, advocating for truth over politics in the expression of scientific evidence