The unmasking of the Japanese isn’t going smoothly. Although it’s been 2.5 months since the government lifted its request to wear masks indoors and 3 weeks since it officially declared an end to its 3-year-long War on Covid, some virus warriors are carrying on the campaign just like those
After reading this, I assume there must be at least 1000 complaints about me at the police station. I have gotten two in person. One on a bicycle past me from behind and reported me to the police officer on the corner. He complained that I had berated him for the face diaper. I didn't recall berating that particular "man" because it is hard to pinpoint when you do it at least 100 times a day. I wish I had more people to join me in the berating. It's a lonely road. And my throat hurts from making all the sheep noises.
Guy Gin, I’d like to get in touch properly. I wrote the recent article quoting you in the Daily Sceptic. I’ve been trying to get as much skeptical material into the mainstream press as possible over the last three years, with occasional success. I think we can probably help each other. I’m based in Tokyo. email me at pbp19@hotmail.com if interested.
The zero-COVID holdouts in the West are generally wearing high-quality masks or respirators (and all end up getting infected anyway, mind you), but it's rare to see anything other than cloth or surgical masks in Japan, which makes it completely obvious that it's not about infection control. That mentally ill man harassing the women in Sapporo had his nose hanging out from his cloth or surgical mask all the while he's shouting. Doesn't he know #COVIDIsAirborne?!
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, temperature will reach 35°C today, and I can see roughly 50 to 60% people are still masking outdoors. It's been three months since the government here relaxed nearly all masking requirements.
I am just speechless.
If they can manage masking under this weather, they will probably carry on for at least another decade.
My interest in Japanese culture means I read every article you write with great interest. We wore masks for the first 3 months, a long time ago. But we wore 3M rubber half face masks with two P100 cartridges that DO work. Of course we quickly realized there was no need for masks of any kind and stopped wearing those two. Unfortunately for the Japanese people wearing a mask causes one to continually rebreathe exhaled pathogens and the mask become moist inside within 5 minutes and you're now breathing through the top and sides of the mask.This applies to N95s. Splash Guards, which are given out in every US medical facility but not required to be worn, are splash guards, not masks. They were designed such that surgeons won't be splashed in the face with bodily fluids while performing surgery.
I feel so sorry for the Japanese people and despise the Japanese government the same as my own. We've been tortured and murdered and this entire project was a US DoD global dosing experiment.
Guy Gin, you're a magnificent addition to Substack!
Is that a wearily optimistic conclusion? Or an optimistically weary one?
Of course there is a lot of mindless compliance and gullibility around but I still think that there are things that are worth trying to understand. For example, last week I was in a meeting with 5 other people. One other was showing her face. She spent 10-15 minutes apologizing and making up excuses. The result? All the others revealed their faces for the next two hours or so. The meeting drew to its conclusion leading to four of the others to deface in order to make the short walk to their own - private- offices. These are not stupid people but they persist in behaving stupidly. It is sad. But it’s curiously fascinating too. No?
I have been in Japan (mainly Tokyo) for the last three weeks. My sense is masks are starting to fade but very, very slowly. When I arrived school children in the street were 100% masked but now it feels more 70/30. On the underground after about 10pm people seem to loosen up and it is about 50/50 maybe even a majority unmasked. Outside I think sometimes it gets close to 50% unmasked. So it is very slow but I do think there is progress. And people copy each other so maybe the tipping point is not far away.
I did have a very nice chat with a (masked) businessman on the Shinkansen. When we got onto the subject of Covid I asked him why he was still masked and he explained there was still Covid about. And when I asked for how much longer he would continue wearing a mask he just laughed and looked a bit embarrassed and didn’t answer.
Do you think it's even more crazy in Japan because people have used masks and gloves in the past? ( Is there a history there? I don't know I just remember being there for a bit in the 90s and some people wore masks or gloves). In Australia the fear campaign worked brilliantly and the same reason 'Covid is still around' is used by quite a few people. My mum was speaking with a 90yo friend in a retirement home and she won't go and have a cup of tea in someone else's unit now because 'Covid is still around'. So sad.
Maybe those who go abroad on a trip and witness that nobody wears a mask will lead the way when they return to Japan? The other possibility is it's a stinking hot summer and people get fed up with being unable to breathe properly. Oh to dream!
For our part here in rural Hiroshima, things are slowly becoming more and more 'full-smile visible'.
We just had our daughter's sports festival last Sunday, and unexpectedly positive sights were everywhere. No teachers masked, only one student masked (out of about 50 children), and perhaps 10 percent of the couple hundred or so family and friends were masked. My wife and I (who have been unmasked for the entire scamdemic) were happily surprised for the first time in a while. On regular school days, my daughter's grade 1 class has no more masked children (6 students) and an unmasked teacher (not sure about the other classes).
Here at the university (agricultural campus, where they allegedly understand both the chemistry and physics of molecular/particle movement), where I have been battling everybody as the only unmasked person these past three years, the blindly compliant, disturbingly-weak professors are still about 70 to 80% masked, with the students at somewhere around 60%. Thankfully in my classes, the number of masked students is down to about 20 to 30% - depending on the class. Granted, my class has been the one acceptable 'mask-free' place on campus during the scamdemic (at least for the dozen-or-so times I have been able to get away with in-person classes prior to April).
Have a great weekend, and all the best for an evermore mask-free Kanto region!
I fell in love when I was over there while in the military and studied/used the language a little bit. It would have been nice to settle down over there but now it looks like I dodged a bullet.
After reading this, I assume there must be at least 1000 complaints about me at the police station. I have gotten two in person. One on a bicycle past me from behind and reported me to the police officer on the corner. He complained that I had berated him for the face diaper. I didn't recall berating that particular "man" because it is hard to pinpoint when you do it at least 100 times a day. I wish I had more people to join me in the berating. It's a lonely road. And my throat hurts from making all the sheep noises.
Keep up the good work, Guy Gin.
Great article.
Have you watched the video of Dr David Martin talking at the UE about the origin of Covid ? That’s a fucking MOAB.
In sum : Covid has been created 56 years ago ; the Pfizer vaccine in 1990, etc…
Must watch !
https://rumble.com/v2qfnt0-i-am-in-shock-this-really-just-happened-dr.-david-martin-exposes-the-actual.html
Guy Gin, I’d like to get in touch properly. I wrote the recent article quoting you in the Daily Sceptic. I’ve been trying to get as much skeptical material into the mainstream press as possible over the last three years, with occasional success. I think we can probably help each other. I’m based in Tokyo. email me at pbp19@hotmail.com if interested.
The zero-COVID holdouts in the West are generally wearing high-quality masks or respirators (and all end up getting infected anyway, mind you), but it's rare to see anything other than cloth or surgical masks in Japan, which makes it completely obvious that it's not about infection control. That mentally ill man harassing the women in Sapporo had his nose hanging out from his cloth or surgical mask all the while he's shouting. Doesn't he know #COVIDIsAirborne?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSf4H3CM-CM
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, temperature will reach 35°C today, and I can see roughly 50 to 60% people are still masking outdoors. It's been three months since the government here relaxed nearly all masking requirements.
I am just speechless.
If they can manage masking under this weather, they will probably carry on for at least another decade.
My interest in Japanese culture means I read every article you write with great interest. We wore masks for the first 3 months, a long time ago. But we wore 3M rubber half face masks with two P100 cartridges that DO work. Of course we quickly realized there was no need for masks of any kind and stopped wearing those two. Unfortunately for the Japanese people wearing a mask causes one to continually rebreathe exhaled pathogens and the mask become moist inside within 5 minutes and you're now breathing through the top and sides of the mask.This applies to N95s. Splash Guards, which are given out in every US medical facility but not required to be worn, are splash guards, not masks. They were designed such that surgeons won't be splashed in the face with bodily fluids while performing surgery.
I feel so sorry for the Japanese people and despise the Japanese government the same as my own. We've been tortured and murdered and this entire project was a US DoD global dosing experiment.
Guy Gin, you're a magnificent addition to Substack!
Peace & Love,
JP
Is that a wearily optimistic conclusion? Or an optimistically weary one?
Of course there is a lot of mindless compliance and gullibility around but I still think that there are things that are worth trying to understand. For example, last week I was in a meeting with 5 other people. One other was showing her face. She spent 10-15 minutes apologizing and making up excuses. The result? All the others revealed their faces for the next two hours or so. The meeting drew to its conclusion leading to four of the others to deface in order to make the short walk to their own - private- offices. These are not stupid people but they persist in behaving stupidly. It is sad. But it’s curiously fascinating too. No?
I have been in Japan (mainly Tokyo) for the last three weeks. My sense is masks are starting to fade but very, very slowly. When I arrived school children in the street were 100% masked but now it feels more 70/30. On the underground after about 10pm people seem to loosen up and it is about 50/50 maybe even a majority unmasked. Outside I think sometimes it gets close to 50% unmasked. So it is very slow but I do think there is progress. And people copy each other so maybe the tipping point is not far away.
I did have a very nice chat with a (masked) businessman on the Shinkansen. When we got onto the subject of Covid I asked him why he was still masked and he explained there was still Covid about. And when I asked for how much longer he would continue wearing a mask he just laughed and looked a bit embarrassed and didn’t answer.
Do you think it's even more crazy in Japan because people have used masks and gloves in the past? ( Is there a history there? I don't know I just remember being there for a bit in the 90s and some people wore masks or gloves). In Australia the fear campaign worked brilliantly and the same reason 'Covid is still around' is used by quite a few people. My mum was speaking with a 90yo friend in a retirement home and she won't go and have a cup of tea in someone else's unit now because 'Covid is still around'. So sad.
Maybe those who go abroad on a trip and witness that nobody wears a mask will lead the way when they return to Japan? The other possibility is it's a stinking hot summer and people get fed up with being unable to breathe properly. Oh to dream!
Hi Guy Gin,
Thanks for the update, fella. Great work always!
For our part here in rural Hiroshima, things are slowly becoming more and more 'full-smile visible'.
We just had our daughter's sports festival last Sunday, and unexpectedly positive sights were everywhere. No teachers masked, only one student masked (out of about 50 children), and perhaps 10 percent of the couple hundred or so family and friends were masked. My wife and I (who have been unmasked for the entire scamdemic) were happily surprised for the first time in a while. On regular school days, my daughter's grade 1 class has no more masked children (6 students) and an unmasked teacher (not sure about the other classes).
Here at the university (agricultural campus, where they allegedly understand both the chemistry and physics of molecular/particle movement), where I have been battling everybody as the only unmasked person these past three years, the blindly compliant, disturbingly-weak professors are still about 70 to 80% masked, with the students at somewhere around 60%. Thankfully in my classes, the number of masked students is down to about 20 to 30% - depending on the class. Granted, my class has been the one acceptable 'mask-free' place on campus during the scamdemic (at least for the dozen-or-so times I have been able to get away with in-person classes prior to April).
Have a great weekend, and all the best for an evermore mask-free Kanto region!
Oh wow.
I fell in love when I was over there while in the military and studied/used the language a little bit. It would have been nice to settle down over there but now it looks like I dodged a bullet.
Wow!