Well, I agree with you about the literacy thing. I'm just saying that Japanese are far too easily swayed by TV propaganda. Then again, I work with teachers mostly. A few years back I worked for a model&toy company and the people there were far more based. That year, Obama visited Japan and groveled about how sorry he was about the whole atomic bomb thing and the guys I knew at that company were like, "We don't need his stupid apologies. He needs to be a man." They also seemed to like Trump too. But the only maskless people I see around here are elderly people, who are supposedly the ones who are the most at-risk. I see people posting memes on here about how people driving alone in their cars wearing masks must be Biden supporters, and I just think "that's half everyone here in Japan." Japanese culture discourages independent thinking and focuses on groupthink. Fortunately that groupthink greatly values national identity and national pride. But when it comes to WuFlu, people are completely brainwashed. I try telling people that Cary Mullis, the man who earned a Nobel Prize for the PCR device, was against its use as a medical diagnostic test. I've only met maybe one persron here who thinks that WuFlu is a sham. My family is Japanese and I've lived here for 12 years. I have met a few people open-minded about Q though.