Having 1)an "overshoot" of the COVID19 infection (yesterday we saw 369 newly confirmed cases in this prefecture alone), 2) a huge cold wave (by our standard),  3) a useless mayor (as long as I know, he has not explained the current situation publicly (I do not count his "private" blog), or even appeared in public  since 2021 started),

(Image retrieved from his own Instagram: 高島宗一郎さんのインスタグラム - (高島宗一郎@takashima.fukuoka) (instagrammernews.com)

4) who does not stop an event called "Seijinsiki", gathering more than 7,000 young people, 5)  even from Tokyo, the current epicentre of the outbreak in Japan, could be seen only in panic films...in the past.

Despite that we are now virtually living in a panic-film world, I could still can eat three times a day, stay in a warm room and grumble over this and that..at least today. A real dystopia came more quietly  than it has been depicted in films.