Was watching bits of QEII ceremonies. Japan news came on. Emperor and entourage traveled to London. Emperor and Empress waved to crowd from plane wearing jumbo sized WHITE masks. Disembarked in London wearing jumbo sized BLACK masks. Filmed entering and exiting venues, all entourage masked up. Only time they took off their masks was upon entering foreign dignitary receptions and memorial services, solely because none of the other guests were masked up.
When I left Japan in 2020, most of the time I didn't have to bother with stupid, useless, dangerous masks. I let scaredy cats wear them and only wore mine when mask police personalities were around. Flew to Hokkaido to see California Chrome who was sold to Arrow Stud. Had to wear mask to see him and visit limited to 1 hour with horses inside their stalls, temperature checks performed at horse farm and also check in at hotels. Walked into a 7-11 with mask on chin, and girl stared at me, eyes bulging, like "Are you trying to kill me???!!!" Interesting thing, at karaoke, mama san let us take our masks off. Japanese believe you are more likely to get "the virus" at karaoke.
Moved to US and suddenly had to wear a mask everywhere. Got sick of it and started using the mask on the chin trick. Worked fine. Only once a store employee reprimanded me to put my mask over my nose. "Oh sorry." Weirdest thing was everyone living in my apartment complex acted like mask gestapo were everywhere. There was an atmosphere of "no talking no talking" and especially "no talking without your mask on"! And that idiot/murderer Fauci was telling everyone they could only have a VIRTUAL Thanksgiving with family, or maybe eat outside with social distancing. Then "the beloved Dr. Fauci" (as he was called by TV "journalists") became the grinch that stole Christmas. He told everyone grandma and grandpa should spend Christmas alone, because if they could avoid the boogie man virus in 2020, then MAYBE they could live to enjoy Christmas 2021 after the shots were distributed. No common sense acknowledgement that Christmas 2020 could be grandma and grandpa's last Christmas in ANY case.
So getting back to Japan and the masks. Hubs went to Japan last summer to see his aging parents. I could not go because my refusal to shoot myself with poison might cause the in laws to die. He says EVERYONE in Japan now is wearing masks all the time and it appears that way on Japan news film clips. They were told the Omicron variant was the MOST dangerous of all, and they believed it, even though many had gotten jabbed. So they went out and boostered up and seem to have a perma mask culture. Sometimes I feel like I wish the jabbed doctors would mostly die from their jabology. The total death rate would probably go down from the lack of poison prescriptions and other iatrogenic treatments plus fewer jab pushers.
Japanese culture does not promote thinking for oneself. One must fit in. Apparently Americans have trouble also. Whatever happened to rugged individualism? Or was that a cultural myth?
The only "rugged individualists" left in U.S. are conservatives. The leftists here would fit in well with the "love the government control and must conform to what the masses are doing" mentality that it appears most Japanese possess.
Was watching bits of QEII ceremonies. Japan news came on. Emperor and entourage traveled to London. Emperor and Empress waved to crowd from plane wearing jumbo sized WHITE masks. Disembarked in London wearing jumbo sized BLACK masks. Filmed entering and exiting venues, all entourage masked up. Only time they took off their masks was upon entering foreign dignitary receptions and memorial services, solely because none of the other guests were masked up.
When I left Japan in 2020, most of the time I didn't have to bother with stupid, useless, dangerous masks. I let scaredy cats wear them and only wore mine when mask police personalities were around. Flew to Hokkaido to see California Chrome who was sold to Arrow Stud. Had to wear mask to see him and visit limited to 1 hour with horses inside their stalls, temperature checks performed at horse farm and also check in at hotels. Walked into a 7-11 with mask on chin, and girl stared at me, eyes bulging, like "Are you trying to kill me???!!!" Interesting thing, at karaoke, mama san let us take our masks off. Japanese believe you are more likely to get "the virus" at karaoke.
Moved to US and suddenly had to wear a mask everywhere. Got sick of it and started using the mask on the chin trick. Worked fine. Only once a store employee reprimanded me to put my mask over my nose. "Oh sorry." Weirdest thing was everyone living in my apartment complex acted like mask gestapo were everywhere. There was an atmosphere of "no talking no talking" and especially "no talking without your mask on"! And that idiot/murderer Fauci was telling everyone they could only have a VIRTUAL Thanksgiving with family, or maybe eat outside with social distancing. Then "the beloved Dr. Fauci" (as he was called by TV "journalists") became the grinch that stole Christmas. He told everyone grandma and grandpa should spend Christmas alone, because if they could avoid the boogie man virus in 2020, then MAYBE they could live to enjoy Christmas 2021 after the shots were distributed. No common sense acknowledgement that Christmas 2020 could be grandma and grandpa's last Christmas in ANY case.
So getting back to Japan and the masks. Hubs went to Japan last summer to see his aging parents. I could not go because my refusal to shoot myself with poison might cause the in laws to die. He says EVERYONE in Japan now is wearing masks all the time and it appears that way on Japan news film clips. They were told the Omicron variant was the MOST dangerous of all, and they believed it, even though many had gotten jabbed. So they went out and boostered up and seem to have a perma mask culture. Sometimes I feel like I wish the jabbed doctors would mostly die from their jabology. The total death rate would probably go down from the lack of poison prescriptions and other iatrogenic treatments plus fewer jab pushers.
Japanese culture does not promote thinking for oneself. One must fit in. Apparently Americans have trouble also. Whatever happened to rugged individualism? Or was that a cultural myth?
The only "rugged individualists" left in U.S. are conservatives. The leftists here would fit in well with the "love the government control and must conform to what the masses are doing" mentality that it appears most Japanese possess.