City spent its anti-vacuum funds to build giant squid statue

The city of Known, Japan spent almost all of his anti-backgroundcovid, not to buy medical supplies for the pandemic, or to try to help society, but to build a statue of a squid four meters high, nine wide and 13 long.

Oddly enough, this structure costs around $ 247,000. Of this sum, almost $ 229,000 They come from the Covid-19 grant available to this city. Noto is famous for its squid and in Japan towns that have a giant mascot or statue are usually a big tourist attraction.

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The local government defended itself from criticism, saying that in this way its town will be known as a fishing municipality, which in the long term “will bring significant economic income from new visitors.”

This is how the person in charge of Promotion Division de la ville said that “the project serves to polish the attractiveness of the district”.

In this line, one of the local officials assured that “Ogi, in the municipality of Noto, has long been known as a Japanese fish production center of flying squid ”.

“However, recently the number of landings has decreased, so this initiative would be favorable for the place,” he said, also specifying that the statue will serve as a tourist attraction in the city.

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A neighbor, for his part, said: “It can be effective for attract customers long-term, but there is an urgent need for support to medical staff and long-term care facilities ”.

Japan currently has 610 thousand cases and at least 10 thousand dead by the coronavirus, as it goes through its fourth wave of the pandemic.