The Prayer of the Yo-kai Amami Amabie

Author Little Sun's Star and Heart

Japan has always been a country that is very good at combining character painting with various meanings and successfully marketing it, such as animation now.

This trend may be traced back to the Edo period, and the following is the tile version of the Edo period (equivalent to the modern side news). This one that appears on the tile plate, looks like a mermaid but has a beak, is a monster from the Edo period, called アマビエamabie.

The photo comes from the Internet, the tile plate of the Edo period

Legend has it that a strange light suddenly appeared on the sea at the time of Higo (now Kumamoto), and a three-tailed monster with a beak resembling a mermaid appeared in the sea. Avoid evil. From then on, AMAビエamabie has become the auspicious representative of the evil epidemic and the expelling of the plague.

Last year, due to the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, AMAビエamabie woke up from the tile plate of the Edo period and became a well-known sign of the epidemic. Unlike other mascots, which have regional restrictions, it is the unanimous wish of all Japanese people to hope that the disease will disappear, so there are related items related to amabie everywhere in the mountains and valleys.

Mobile phone straps, stationery, dolls and all kinds of ornaments can be seen in AMABI. There are even people who dress up as amabie on Halloween. This is probably a limited-edition dress that will only appear in the past two years!

my amulet

Maybe it was people's wish to hope that the disease would disappear, or maybe it was アマビエamabie who exerted his monster power. Since March, the number of new crown infections has clearly shown a downward trend.

However, the number of infections has not continued to decline, showing a tug-of-war situation, which makes the Japanese government's declaration of emergency uncertain between lifting and continuation.

Of course, human efforts are limited. As long as human activities are uninterrupted, infected people will continue to appear. In May 2020, the Japanese government issued the first emergency declaration, and announced the lifting of the state of emergency after the number of people dropped below 100 per day. As a result, the number of infections continued to rise after the lifting of the situation, and the pressure on the medical system sent out bursts of grief, which is a painful lesson.

アマビエamabie's ability to pray is limited, the Japanese government had to move out the last killer, the new crown vaccine. Usually with the cautious attitude and practice of the Japanese, vaccine approval usually requires continuous testing and evaluation for at least several years. how badly the overall environment and health care system are hit.

Japan's new crown vaccination date is planned to be within one year from February 17, 2021, to achieve the goal of universal vaccination. Since the vaccine was delivered directly from Pfizer to Narita Airport in February, the local governments of various cities, towns and villages began to send various inquiries and notifications to various local medical institutions without stopping.

In my local clinic, the first thing I received was the “Notice of Inquiry of Willingness” from the municipal office. This is to ask each medical institution to express its willingness to undertake the work of injecting the new crown vaccine, and the medical institutions that are willing to undertake the injection work, the municipal office. Specialists will be entrusted to transport the super-freezers filled with vaccines to various medical institutions.

In the order of vaccination, the first priority is medical staff, then senior citizens over 65 years old, followed by those with underlying diseases (heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and other prescribed diseases), and finally the general population and children.

Basically, two vaccinations with an interval of one to three weeks shall prevail, but now Pfizer has delayed the purchase schedule, as well as the problem of syringes (note), and Japan is still considering the effectiveness of one vaccination. There should be a lot of variables in the future (time point in 2021)

Note: For the vaccine produced by Pfizer, a bottle can inject 6 people, but the injection needles currently used in Japan, due to the specification, will have residual drugs left in the syringe, resulting in a bottle of drugs can only be used for 5 Name, this problem requires a large-scale change of the needle mode because the injection and production are too late, so so far, the traditional syringe bottle is mainly used for 5 injections (later, it was completely changed to 6 injection needles for vaccines)

This article was written in February 2021. As of May 2022, it has been announced that 3 doses of the vaccine have been administered. The fourth dose can be administered as soon as 4 months after the third dose is completed, that is, as soon as June this year. The fourth dose will hit the road.

However, according to my workplace experience, by the third dose, no one is going to fight, and the pomp is completely different from the first and second doses. During the first and second doses, everyone was scrambling to make an appointment, and all the medical institutions were unable to make an appointment by telephone, and they had to go to the standby registration "もったいないセンター" (that is, someone made an appointment but didn't come to call, it's a pity that it was abandoned. Those who register on the waiting list will be notified, hurry up to the so-and-so clinic, there is one vacant!), not now, the situation is completely the opposite, it is after we opened the seal, there are only three people who have made an appointment, we still have to go and askもったいないセンター, help me find 3 more people to make a bottle, もったいないセンター is sometimes very powerful, I find 3 people immediately, and report to the clinic immediately.

The full amount of the vaccination fee is borne by the government. When it is your turn to belong to the echelon, you will receive an injection notice and a consultation form from the municipal office. Take the injection materials to the designated medical institution or designated large group injection site to receive the injection.

As long as the mutated virus does not make a comeback and the side effects of the vaccine can be controlled within a certain range, the injection effect of the vaccine is worth looking forward to.

When the epidemic is over and countries can communicate with each other again, don't forget to come to Japan to see the nemesis of the plague, the amabie that symbolizes the end of the epidemic. The little amabie is filled with people's fear of disease and hope of getting rid of the threat of the epidemic. It is hoped that people will conquer the sky, and that monsters can overcome the plagues of this century.

アマビエ is actually quite cute, a bit like the little mermaid

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