Posted on 04/06/2020 10:37:54 PM PDT by jerod
For those who claim Japan is locked down... Does this look like a lock down to you.. Shibuya Scramble Crossing Live Camera
Or this?
Looks very quiet to me, at least by Tokyo standards (particularly Shibuya) for the middle of a business day.
That kinda looks locked down to me. 3 pm traffic? Very light. Very very light. It is usually a madhouse.
Abe is a sensible man.
I’ve been there and that isn’t how I remember it.
No man!!!!! its the same 14 cars and trucks and the same people if you watch it long enough!!!!!!
Check out the time in the left hand corner... It’s live.
For Shibuya that’s very light foot traffic.
How it usually looks (but without the World Order guys): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pXFktAbx5Y
Ready, set, WALK! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6EeCWytZo
Abe’s plan is to give two face masks per family...Is that still in the works. Gonna have to go long lines at each community center to file for the masks.
The Japanese have always used face masks while taking mass transit
Japan is completely different culturally from the USA — they have strong no-touching culture, they wear masks and gloves and they have high trust in their government and high obedience to authority.
That’s the opposite of the USA.
you can’t compare the two
Here in Kumamoto in southern Japan - a city of 740,000 - outside of school closings - not much has changed . No panic ...yet .
Having lived there for 3 years I would say that looks like lockdown to me.
Compare the reaction of the Japanese people to the last Tsunami or Fukishima nuclear disasters with the reaction of the people of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
The Japanese people lined up, cleaned up and took care of business. There was never any thought of looting or taking advantage of a bad situation.
On the other hand, we can all remember the locals of NO, Heineken Man, organized gangs from other states going in to rob jewelry stores. People looting and grabbing big screen TVs. They should have been shot on site.
They do social distancing naturally.
A friend of mine lost his expensive new cell phone twice at drunken nights out in Tokyo.
Both times the phone was returned - the first time by a drunk guy who waited for half an hour at a bar then apologized that he was too drunk when returning it and the second time, dropped on a busy street and it was then kept in full view for a few hours before he came and found it - no one took it.
When he came back to the states and found a mobile phone dropped and tried to return it, the person on the other line refused to meet him, didn’t thank him or anything.
I can say Poland and a lot of central europe (except for Prague) is similar — not at Japanese levels, but similar courtesy
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