Disasters like COVID-19 bring us together – if we let go

Some disasters bring us together. The 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake was born voluntarily on an unprecedented scale in Japan. What is volunteering? Doing good for his benefit – not for profit. The volunteers were integrated into the nonprofits, given the official status under the Nonprofits Act 1998. It was exemplary in motion: by 2015, the number of nonprofits had reached more than 50,000, according to the Japan Nonprofit Center.

The massive earthquake in eastern Japan in 2011, which caused nuclear tidal waves and landslides, was catastrophic, as one thinks, beyond human endurance. His suffering and his movements are not healed to this day. However, one of the established memories is happy memories, enshrined in the “kanji of the year” that year – kizuna (human bonds), which are seen not only to survive the shock but to reinforce it. We approached each other – recognizing perhaps our shared weakness towards that which came to the second kanji: wazawai (disaster). It is striking that the positive victory triumphed over conditions that were hugely favorable – that is, negative thinking.

COVID-19 is a crisis of a different color. Its victims are contagious, and potentially fatal. There are heroes of sympathy stronger than their fear. Suffering and death, without their continuous work, would be much greater. The debt the world owes them exceeds the payment. They are greeted by fewer people but not by them, to a large extent. The natural and innate response, and from a purely practical point of view, the rational response was encapsulated by the golden week at a road sign in Kanagawa Prefecture: “Don’t come to Kanagawa now.”

stay away. Stay home. Get away from me. This sense of activity does not mean unless it is self-preservation. The worst that can be said is that he is not heroic.

Many of the heroes are medical professionals and caregivers. Their burden is overwhelming. The system is cracking under pressure. “The medical collapse is already occurring,” a doctor told Shukan Gendai magazine this month.

Medical breakdown means that hospitals reject patients because they are sick. stay away. Stay home. Shukan Shinshu magazine this month introduces a 35-year-old man who woke up one morning in late March due to fever, lethargy and a slight headache. He took some cold medicine and went to work. Several days later, his morning orange taste was funny. Was it the new coronavirus? Dull aftertaste is a symptom.

Then it became dangerous – nausea, dizziness and profuse sweating. He called an ambulance, was taken to hospital, and his test was positive. He was told: “Come home, rest.” He did, and ill. Call the hospital. They said, “We have no family.” At this rate, I guess, I’m going to die. He was finally accepted and recovered. Not everyone is so lucky.

A 42-year-old executive who lives regardless of his family has had his symptoms and his test has been positive. Shokan Shinshu says he was sent home. There is no family in the hospital. His temperature was high, and difficulty breathing. He has diabetes – a fatal complication. Desperate, he suffocates sometimes, making his wife call him three times a day. If you cannot reach it, you will know to call an ambulance.

In April, the World Bank released a report estimated that the epidemic would push 40-60 million people worldwide into extreme poverty. Japan is not mentioned in the report. Poverty diminishes alongside poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. If it is comfortable for the poor in Japan, they will not mention it to Spa magazine, whose ordeal appeared in its first issue this month.

They were poor but survived before the epidemic. Now, in some cases – such as that of a 41-year-old man found in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo with a handwritten sign reading “Please help me” – it appears that their survival.

The nursing care facility where he worked for 12 years went bankrupt last August, months before the virus was infected. His days were low wages, 14 hours he seemed at best times slavery. Initial job loss felt more freedom than threat. He was experienced, he would find something. If not, daytime jobs will do. With his job he also lost his place of residence – he had lived in a dormitory – but even that was acceptable. There were network cafes. One can sleep there.

So he did, earning enough to get the dishes washed in the bars – until COVID-19 closed the bars. Net cafes also closed. Homeless and close to money, he now sleeps on a bench in the garden, and if he eats once a day, “This is good.” When asked in City Hall about welfare payments, he was told he was not eligible. He is not sure why. He probably didn’t take any answer easily.

What about the future? Spa asks. Indicates his mark. Something will appear. So hoping, anyway. If not, “I might die too,” he says quietly.

The spa could have told him – maybe he did – about free NPO food services at various locations around Tokyo. A journalist in a Shinjuku, of 100 or so people lining up for lunch, meets a 50-year-old man who was similarly displaced by the epidemic. It closed its daily jobs, and closed its dormitory. He says, “Tough sleep exhausts you.” What if he was injured? “I have no income – can I even go to hospital?” Even with income, it’s hard.

Until the last 10,000 yen, he listened eagerly when an NPO representative suggested he was trying City City. Three days later, the Spa reporter received a phone call. The man was cheerful. Either there is a degree of arbitrariness written in the system, or other standards that are not easily understood by outsiders apply. However, he was found eligible for welfare benefits. He will survive, if nothing else – he might return to his feet as soon as the emergency passes, assuming it will pass.

Almost everything does, and maybe this too. Meanwhile, Shukan Jindai drops dark stats. The 2008 economic meltdown led to an increase in unemployment in Japan. Calculations based on this indicate that every 1 percent rise in unemployment generates 10,000 suicides. The light will not come at the end of this tunnel, when it comes, cheap.

Big in Japan is a weekly column that focuses on issues discussed by local media organizations. Michael Hoffman’s latest book, now on sale, is “Sibango, Golden Sibango: Essays in Japanese History”.

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