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Yes, it's very frustrating. Japan is basically open. Restaurants, coffee shops, bars, are full and people have their masks of when in them. Shops are open, movi
by gfxgirl 6y ago
Yes, it's very frustrating. Japan is basically open. Restaurants, coffee shops, bars, are full and people have their masks of when in them. Shops are open, movie theaters are open, shopping centers are packed. There, people do have masks on. When someone is without a mask it's usually a non-asian foreigner.
The government even has programs trying to encourage people to go out eating and to travel within the country.
Numbers are very low compared to similar populations elsewhere including deaths so we're not killing people here. At least not yet. They are at their highest rate yet but it's still 1/100th of similar populations in the west.
- mattigames 6y agoUntil we know what Japan did right [0] (or any non-behavioral advantage they may have had) is completely pointless to try to frame them as an example or anything alike. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53188847 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53188847
- verall 6y agoJapan did aggressive contact tracing (which people actually respect) and there is already a mask wearing culture - people already wore facemasks when feeling ill. In the US there was a plan to send free cloth facemasks to every household that was stopped because it could "cause too much panic". Americans bring up examples of countries with 10X the discipline, like America would have an infection rate closer to Japan if we _had not_ locked down. It's fucking ridiculous.