I've been yearning and praying for months that something like this would happen and tonight, as i was taking my daily walk through the park close to my workplace, it finally happened!
Some older gentleman saw me walking without a mask and instead of staring, checking to see his mask is on tightly or even crossing to the other side of the road...he pulled down his own mask and for the first time in months, breathed God's air!
Very very small in the grand scheme, but after more than a year of disappointments, this was amazing!
Hey man I live in Japan (I think you replied to a comment of mine a few months ago). I face a similar thing, where everyone over here is like culturally pressured into wearing masks all the freakin’ time.
Well it was hot the other day and when I took my kids to the park I saw a lady not wearing her mask, so when my kid asked her kid to play together, we started chatting (I’m maskless cos I’m outside duh).
I said how strange it feels to see a Japanese person without a mask, and she was like “oh I fucking hate these things!” It really gave me hope. I bet as the summer continues more and more will realise it’s fuckin stupid.
Indeed we did have a chat about that. I have seen more people without them as it gets hotter, but a vast minority. Korean gov recently announced from July you are allowed to go maskless outdoors if you are vaxxed. I must say I'm very disappointed in the koreans allowing their gov that kind of power by following that mandate. However I'm very curious to see whether those who are jabbed will take theirs off after wearing them for so long and whether it will lead to unjabbed people doing the same.
Wow I wasn’t aware the government had said you must wear a mask outside. I don’t think that’s a thing here in Japan. I’ve certainly not been hassled for not wearing a mask outside!
Well it says public areas, which is very open to interpretation and which the koreans took to mean everywhere.
Japan has had some guidelines from the start: you're to avoid the "Three Cs" as they call them in English.
So as far as I can tell outside is a free-for-all, which I'm gladly taking advantage of. The normies still wear their masks everywhere though. It's kind of sad because more and more people are saying they hate it but don't want to be the odd one out. I've seen people go jogging with so much headgear they look like they're auditioning for a role as a Daft Punk stunt double. They're breathing so hard the mask does a vacuum seal on their face giving them a kind of facial camel toe. I just want to slap them and say take it off you fool!!