Lisa Du from Bloomberg tells us what she's learned on the Corona vaccine beat in Japan, which yeah, if you go by rollout DATE, Japan is behind the West, but if you go by mortality figures, you could say they're ahead?Ollie recommends a river cruise that reminds us not to take the Disney Navy lightly.Bobby looks at a Ninja Cruise that might have to rebrand as a CATCH 22 Cruise.Topics discussed on this episode range from:What kind of jigsaw puzzle Ollie's Nan is doingBrief thanks to all the latest coffee supportersWhere you can find Bobby and Ollie's official medical adviceHow memorable Lisa found Bobby's stand-up to beA Brian-related oversight that we need to correctLisa discovers that Bobby is SUPER EAGER to believe that people are impressed by himWhether or not it might be better to just do the whole show about Ollie's catThe Feline Angle on Coronavirus, and how blackmarket cat drugs became a Covid treatmentTHE JBRC PRESS CLUB's reporting on SUGA being coached to use social media, which sadly, did not include this absolute stonker of a joke from Tutti QA brief discussion of who KONO TARO is and what his reputation isWhich forms still need HankoHow getting a vaccines in Japan might be made conditional on having a My NumberWhat we know about how the vaccine rollout has been designed and what the roles are for the local and national governmentsWho gets priority for Japan's vaccinesWhat will the vaccine rollout infrastructure look like and is this an opportunity for corona-struck business to pivot to a vaccination-space sharing model?Ways in which Japan's planning might not take into account treating foreignersWhat Lisa saw at the vaccination simulation in Kawasaki, including what they were getting wrong and rightWhy Japan is behind other countries on the vaccination timelineThe approval process for vaccines in JapanComparing vaccination resistance in the US and JapanGovernmental irresponsibility as a reason for Japan's low vaccine confidenceWhy the government needs to provide indemnities to Vaccine manufacturersHow the mRNA vaccine works and how it's similar to the way Bobby teaches his children about religionExtras are wide-ranging and GOLD! Get them by becoming a member here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/japanbyrivercruiseTopics discussed on the Extras:What the different strains of covid and the apparent ineffectiveness of covid antibodies against re-infection means for our futureThe hope that getting a vaccine means going to back to normalWhy comparing Japan's vaccine timeframes to other countries is misleading in terms of that above hopeWhat we DON'T know about what the vaccine doesWhat's going wrong with the rollouts in the US, and why their headstart doesn't really matterLisa's river relevant provenanceThe state of river cruises in Henan during Lisa's youthLisa's appearance on the Deep Dive podcast and our ongoing rivalryOllie's HARD HITTING questions about which podcasts are betterA brief recap of why Yuri Kageyama's journalistic integrity prevented her from being a guestHow Bobby's narcissism cripples his joke-writing abilityThe Internet automatically censors Ollie's Anti-semitism AGAINJubansFlorida's bid for the Tokyo OlympicsWhy Saitama is the Florida of JapanWhy Lisa ALMOST called Japan racist on the Deep Dive podcastThe theory of Japanese cultural uniqueness as it pertains to various Japanese medical issuesOllie mangling the term "Asian Blush"A comparison of drinking culture across the world, including alcoholic bragging rightsAtsugiri JasonHave something you'd like to say? Send us a fax at japanbyrivercruise.comor Tweet to us at @jbrcpodContent linksJapan Fails to Get Young People to Stay Home to Protect ElderlySocial Media Links:Lisa Du: Twitter | Bloomberg WorkBrian: TwitterOllie Horn: Twitter | InstagramBobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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