Vaccines Shared: Japan Does The Right Thing -For a Change

Sharing Vaccines or a long-overdue repayment to a neighbour:

Japan seems to be getting things right -at last.

By which I mean Japan sending off surplus vaccines to its neighbour, Taiwan.

True, there will probably be avoidable, but in the end outweighed, repercussions from other neighbour(s).

In what seemed to be, however, an endlessly muddled handling of counter-COVID19 measures, this is a welcome change.

My reason for supporting this gift-giving is the fact that, in a nutshell, Japan was lucky this time.

At least so far.

It’s about time people living in Japan faced it:

somehow, for some unknown reason, people in Japan are relatively immune or resistant to the novel, new, newer and maybe even the most novel Corona virus.

If and when you’re lucky, you’re not required to, but I think it’s much better to,

share your good fortune.

Call it what you want: a “giveaway,” maybe. I prefer to call it plain ol’ sharing.

Share it with your neighbours, friends, relatives or community(-ies) that helped you out back then.

Taiwan stood out in its support per capita for Japan exactly a decade ago.

There’s a Japanese proverb that says:

“Sympathy and support is not meant for others.”

It’s meant for you. But the repayment may never take place in your lifetime, but you should be content with that.

Reciprocal gift-giving and sharing,without asking for immediate repayment. They can be and are essential for weaving and strengthening the human social fabric.

N.B., the above fact does not make it safe for a foreigner from, say, Europe or South America to visit Japan

It’s like outsiders visiting, for example, Africa. They won’t be as safe against malaria as the native population.

Not without prior medication.