Think of widespread use of masks as a kind of surrogate herd immunity. Not as a surrogate vaccine. It's only effective in a statistical sense. But it is effect

Think of widespread use of masks as a kind of surrogate herd immunity. Not as a surrogate vaccine. It's only effective in a statistical sense. But it is effective. I feel the crux of Japanese resilience (vis a vis Western) has been their tendency to consider and act in the group's interest, rather than in own interest. However, it's far from over and time will tell. Yesterday I saw many people doing hanami, cautiously.