Issuing COVID vaccination vouchers has been pushed forwards, but my one says that I would be able to make appointments and get jabs after August. I was very disappointed when I opened the envelope last night.
Supplying issues had been news headlines for the last few days, and my positive thought of being vaccinated next week has faded. Kyoto City Council had only established an online making appointments system recently, but it went meaningless as listed clinics are unable to provide people their vaccines for first jabs.
Two obvious reasons exist in this big issue.
Japanese Government goes into rush vaccination schedules in order to hold the controversial Tokyo Olympics with a safer environment. Vaccines had been over supplied, so the Government opened more doors for jabs.
People have choices from their home doctor, other independent doctors, and vaccination sites established by private companies, local councils, Prefecture and the Government.
The companies who established vaccination venues organised vaccines unreasonably. Even they have ordered vaccines exaggeratedly for their surrounding community members, rather than just their employees and their families.
Then they waste some vaccines, and consequently vaccine shortages occur. Local councils and independent doctors struggle with getting enough vaccines.
Japanese Government only focus on holding the Olympics, and changed the operations of vaccination incompetent. Disorganisation suffers younger people. Rushing schedules without considering the outcome is nonsense, and they lose citizens’ trusts.
Rushing schedules is likely to bring negative outcomes from my life experiences. When I worked for a railway company, I was told to take actions before the projects were confirmed to go ahead, because the schedules would be tighter if we started acting properly. Confirmations of projects going ahead were made later than times they should have been made, due to councils’ late budgeting. Such actions are improper, and people in charge are put under the pressure. Those who are in charge of vaccination will be the same.
Making appointments has other issues - unlinked systems and double bookings. Some people are thoughtless making appointments from multiple venues. They just go to their convenient venue and don’t cancel other sites. Worsening, it’s said that some elderly people don’t turn up sites because of bad weather.
Then some vaccines having been ordered to meet demands are wasted because of no shows. It’s a pandemic and vaccines should be shared with everyone who wants and needs. Such selfish acts are intolerant and could lose other people’s lives. Indeed it is the same as panic buying.
Vaccination vouchers have code numbers that are required to make appointments, although some private clinics don’t need to ask their existing patients. Venues take voucher codes when making appointments no matter by online or phone calls, but online systems are not linked each other. Then people can make appointments from multiple venues.
It’s a Government’s failure and caused because of their lack of organising skills and vaccination’s rush schedules. Just do it is not enough and instead causes a lot of issues.
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