Posted on 03/13/2023 6:13:17 AM PDT by george76
Japan on Monday dropped its request for people to wear masks after three years,
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During a televised budget committee meeting at parliament, some lawmakers still wore masks, though Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wasn't wearing one when he arrived at his office Monday.
Baseball fans who gathered outside of the Tokyo Dome hours before Monday´s games Australia-Czech Republic and China-South Korea also had on masks. They'll also be able to cheer without their masks as that ban was lifted, too.
Dropping the mask-wearing request is one of the last steps Japan's government is taking in easing COVID-19 rules in public places as it tries to expand business and other activity.
"From today, mask wearing is left up to individual judgment. We are not forcing anyone to wear it or take it off," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters as he arrived at his office. "I think there will be more occasions when I will take my mask off."
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In a country where the pressure for conformity is extremely strong, many people were expected to keep wearing them for now. The mask request was dropped for outdoors last summer, yet many have kept wearing them.
Restaurants, stores and airlines removed signs asking customers to wear masks.
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A popular chain Ramen Jiro tweeted Monday that mask-wearing is up to customers
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Spectators at baseball and soccer games will be no longer be asked to wear masks and will be allowed to cheer without masks. Fukuoka Softbank Hawks announced that visitors and employees at their stadium can use their own judgment on masks beginning Monday.
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“....and will be allowed to cheer without masks.....”
Huh? “Allowed to cheer”?
What a bunch of dopes
Yeah, you need the mask on to protect yourself from germs but it's perfectly safe to take it off to cheer in a crowded stadium!
During the COVID nonsense here in the U.S., I always got a kick out of people who would wear their masks in restaurants only to take them off when they sat at a table. I guess the big, bad COVID doesn't come near dining room tables.
So why is US health care still in plannedemic paranoia mode ?
I’ve visited Japan several times...each visit having been in winter and the most recent one being about 10 years ago. I was always stunned by the fact that many,many people on the streets (and on subway trains) were wearing white masks very similar to what you’ve always seen in hospitals. So mask wearing isn’t new for the Japanese...at least in winter.
Covid death rates in Japan are lower than any other major country, so they are doing something right.
CCP-cooties only float at 42-84 inches above floor level.
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I just got back from Tokyo and maybe 15 percent were wearing one even indoors. I expect the number to drop even further next week.
I just got back from Tokyo and maybe 15 percent were wearing one even indoors. I expect the number to drop even further next week.
There are, still to this day, bug eyed dopes driving aroundincars by themselves wearing the things or handling the produce that a hundred other people already handled.
Not just old geezers. Twenty year olds. These people just have permanent psychological damage from the scamdemic fearporn. Frightened and fragile. Not made of the stuff that made America great.
They’re holed up together there-crowded. There’s always been a rider or 2 masked. Keeping others from catching a cold. They take others seriously. It’s not a ‘do your own thing’ country.
Asian cultures are mostly compliance cultures, and Japanese wear masks in the major city of Tokyo because the smog is so bad. been that way for decades. You can’t scientifically find any correlation between mask policy and Covid infection rates.
I’ve been flying thru Tokyo for over a decade and remember during the swine flu days seeing people masked at the airport, and it continued. I look at it as kind of an Asian culture thing.
LONG before Covid, the Japanese routinely wore masks if they had a cold or even felt they might be coming down with one. That was just part of their polite society.
Traveling in PA during the pandemic—a great day in Jim Thorpe at Molly McGuire’s as they could finally allow people to eat—outside.
Having to take out food from Cracker Barrel or Denny’s to my motel room.
Red, yellow, or green designated counties with covid rules. At Mineo’s pizza in Pittsburgh you could do takeout only while in a neighboring county, you could eat inside at TGIFridays.
Later I could eat inside at Mineo’s. Hoss’ buffet was ok though they recommended wearing gloves.
Restaurants closed or restricted in MA. The ones that had live music couldn’t have live acts so musicians did facebook live from their homes. Go to our website and you can download our CD.
99 chain in New England (kind of like Applebees): take out only. Then outdoor dining was allowed. Then indoor dining but plexiglass divided booths and you could dine at the bar but seats there faced each other and you had to social distance. And yes, you may take masks off to eat.
At a Chinese take out in King of Prussia PA, the ordering area was plexiglassed in with just a little slot where they passed the food in bags to you.
Now at the 99, no restrictions and you can dip your hands in communal bowls of popcorn or cheese and crackers. After awhile they allowed servers to go without masks.
Doctors offices still have mask requirements.
The covid emergency ends in May and I believe covid tests will no longer be federally subsidized.
Radio PSA urged people to get booster shots for variants...and mentioned some people have gone quite awhile since their shots.
I voluntarily got 2 shots in Apr 2021 and a booster in Oct 2021.
Had to have a negative result of covid test before a colonoscopy...
...I mean restaurants were closed to indoor dining..
At the 99 I’d order food online then park in a spot where they’d bring it out. Ditto at Olive Garden and TGIFridays.
Being allowed to go to the movie theatre again!
Concerts returned. Masks were mandatory.
Some time last yr my workplace relaxed mask requirement. Some still wear them.
So much for what is clearly a myth about the “intelligence” and “bravery” of Japanese “men”.
I used to like going to Texas Roadhouse but since they took the big barrel of peanuts away from the waiting area, I've stopped going. I used to really like to munch on peanuts while waiting for my table and just toss the shells to the floor!
I guess nervous people complained about that.
Back in the 1980s, the "99" was a fairly trendy casual eating chain in the Boston area. I used to take my dates there a lot. The potato skin appetizers were the best and they served beer in frosted mugs.
I used to think that the song "99" by Toto was about getting dumped by your girlfriend while in that restaurant. But apparently "99" was inspired by an older George Lucas film (prior to Star Wars). The restaurant got its name due to the first location being at 99 State Street in Boston.
I've delayed my colonoscopy for a few years due to this COVID nonsense. I'm just not dealing with the masks and the COVID testing.
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