Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese greetings from Tokyo this is CATHYCAT
now as you can see Tokyo is supposed to be the host city of the 2020 olympics now in
2021 but there's a problem...
in fact there are many problems so many problems that currently 70-80%
of Japanese people do not support the 2020 olympics in Tokyo why?
In the years
leading up to this year we had several issues coming up: venue issues we had issues about the
heat that might be happening during that time we had issues with the committee doing some kind of
sexist statements and then the committee having to change there's been issue after issue after issue
but this year there is something even more burning at hand
the hashtag "nurses against being dispatched for the olympics" is currently trending on twitter why?
Currently Japan is getting
criticized for having a very very slow rollout of the vaccines at the time we're filming this less
than two percent of the population have been fully vaccinated and even less have got their first shot
So at this point in time it seems to be mainly medical staff that had the chance to get their
vaccinations but some of them are not fully vaccinated yet and we're actually one of
the slowest in the advanced countries apparently ....and why is Japan so slow?
The main reason is
manpower there is a lack of doctors and nurses who can administer the shots and right now in Japan
only doctors and nurses are allowed to give the vaccine shots
and that to mention we're already so
short staffed in hospitals and similar that we're currently in another State of Emergency... in Osaka
for example the health care system is currently so strained that they have to close certain hospital
wards and then only open them for corona patients they also have to not start prioritizing people
and sometimes even the over 80s have to now get turned away there's a really really dire situation
happening and again there's not enough staff ... so there's not enough beds there's not enough
hospitals to actually care for corona patients and there are definitely not enough doctors
and nurses and they are working really hard shifts very tough hours and some are even quitting so
we have less people to help out in the hospital and even less people to give out those vaccines
In the midst of this 500 nurses were requested to come and help specifically for the olympics
and that spiked the big big conversation on twitter and nurses were holding up signs saying
"we're not pawns" now why does the olympic do the olympics games need 500 nurses
To the athletes who are coming for the olympics a playbook an updated playbook has been given
out and that playbook has several rules one of them is you have to test twice before coming
and you obviously have to test negative and once you're here you do not have to quarantine so you
can start training straight away but you're not allowed in public areas you're not allowed
to eat out in not desert designated locations so you have to stay
in the designated location and you have to do daily checks so daily corona tests
Now a lot of foreigners are asking: how are they going to control that and what if we get mistaken
for an athlete? One of the most common question that you guys are asking is "can I come to the
olympics?" and currently it's planned to not have foreign spectators but Japanese spectators are
currently in discussion (at the time of filming this)
but we don't know yet if the venues are going to be filled 100%
50% 30%ish percent or whether they're gonna be held without any spectators at all
There are certain areas where athletes were supposed to come
into Japan for example the brazilian surfing team but the area where they wanted to
live and also have their checkups had to actually unfortunately turn them down because they said
we don't have the capacity and we don't have the medical stuff to help you guys with this
Clear is by the time the olympics are happening the 65 years and older are
not all fully vaccinated yet we're planning to have that done by july maybe by august
so some of you guys already have your first or second shots of the vaccines and if you have them
Japan is currently thinking of a vaccine passport that allows especially businessmen to maybe come
into Japan but don't forget you might have the vaccine already but many people in Japan probably
won't yet so please don't rush coming to Japan
so do you understand now why the nurses are getting
a little bit upset about getting dispatched because 500 nurses right now in a time of crisis
can do a lot of good so what do you think should the olympics be held this year what should Japan
do let us know in the comments down below looking forward to finding out what you're thinking about
it I used to think yes once we win against the virus everyone coming together olympics great idea
but this year i'm joining the 70-80% who says maybe not a good idea this year but hey what's
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to time ...thanks for hanging out and I'll catch you soon with more stuff from Tokyo