Why have CCP virus cases drastically decreased?

Following the conclusion of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games, cases of the CCP virus have been steadily decreasing, and the State of Emergency that was in effect across many prefectures was finally lifted at the beginning of the month. Even more surprising is that Tokyo has finally reached its lowest number of cases since last year. 

Apparently though, nobody can seem to agree on why cases have seen such a significant decrease, especially following the chaos of the Olympics back in August. The most obvious conclusion would be that enough people are getting vaccinated. Apparently, Japan's rate of those fully vaccinated is 64%, which is a pretty respectable number. Also, for the most part, people seem to have no qualms about wearing face masks, which I guess is due to the fact that it was fairly common for people to wear face masks during the flu season. Also, the fact that only hundreds of people of anti-vaccination folk turned up to a Tokyo court in support of a current case that has been put forward that is opposing CCP virus vaccinations. The feeling I'm getting from all this, is that while the people that aren't jumping to take the vaccination aren't necessarily anti-vaccination, they're opting more for a wait and see approach, with concerns that there may be some side effects that may arise later on, months after the initial two doses of the vaccine. My girlfriend is taking this approach, and while I'm not pushing her to rush out and get the vaccine, she is also pretty careful when she goes out and about. However, at the same time, she is a bit annoyed when some of her friends and co-workers are pressuring her to get the vaccine. I feel the heavy handed approach in forcing people to get vaccinations will have the opposite effect, and people will dig their heels deeper in the sand rather than get the vaccination. Making it free is a good start, though I admit, I'm not really sure how to provide any further incentives to get the vaccine. I personally don't agree how some countries, such as Australia, that are threatening to sack employees to get vaccinated. Or supermarkets will turn away those that haven't been vaccinated. This seems like a very dangerous path to go down - I'd dare say this kind of thinking is in line with the CCP itself, and people don't seem to realise it.

Ultimately, I have no clue either why the number of cases have drastically decreased. Despite that, I'm just happy that they are decreasing. The only thing I can really hope for, is that this is not a prelude to 6th wave.

Teachers getting fast tracked for vaccines?

Japan Today has posted a recent article highlighting why Japan is dragging its feet on the vaccine rollout, something I briefly talked about briefly in a previous post.

On the note of the vaccine, I sat in on the usual teachers' meetings at one of my schools. What was of particular note was regarding vaccines for the corona/CCP virus. Officially, the city is rolling out the vaccine for the elderly residents. However, it appears that due to there being excess vaccine left over, it is being offered to teachers for the next three weeks, which I think is a good thing, given they have regular exposure to children for extended periods of time. In addition, this seems to be available to teachers at all schools. But, due to most people getting flu-like symptoms that last around 3 days after taking the vaccine, they seem to be utilizing a system where so many teachers from each school at any one time (around 2-3) will go get the vaccine, before the next lot teachers go. This is apparently to reduce the impact of absent teachers needing time to recover from the flu-like symptoms after taking the vaccine.
While this is great news for them, there really hasn't been any mention of whether this would apply to ALTs, who also work at these schools. Since ALTs are subcontracted to work at these schools, we don't fall under the usual school pecking order, and I suspect that we would be ineligible for this time period.
I spoke to a fellow ALT about this, where they mentioned that teachers were asking them if they had any allergies to certain vaccines in the past, though didn't say outright anything about the CCP virus vaccine that all teachers would have access too. Despite no outright mention of it to them, it would seem to match up with what I heard at the teacher's meeting. 

I want to speak to the company about this, though I suspect that they might not know anything about this, as this seems exclusive to my current city. In any case, given that we are working in close contact with children (despite attempts at social distancing), it would be worthwhile finding out if there is any sort of vaccine program available to ALTs if there are extra vaccines that are sitting around being unused.