Of all the countries of the world, you'd expect "not blindly believing whatever the government tells you" to be the #1 sentiment in Japan, beating out even the USA, considering what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The sheer amount of normalfags here is pretty irritating. I try to tell people that the inventor of the PCR itself said multiple times that it is useless to determine if someone is sick or not and they think I'm talking crazy... just because their national average of English understanding is the least among Asian countries and they are too lazy to look it up for themselves. At least there aren't any rabid Karen-types here. I go maskless everywhere I go, outside of work, and only on occasion will a store clerk as me where my mask is. I just refuse to wear one and they leave me alone (at least in my area).

That said, my wife reads Yahoo News Japan and the comments on the Corona-chan articles are full of people speaking about the vaccine side-effects and how omicron is nothing more than a bad cold.