Yesterday, our old friends at the Covid Response Advisory Board held their last meeting before Covid’s downgrading on 8th May, after which they’ll no longer meet regularly.
Get fat off public money that can be legally stolen via Pfizer contracts while also saving the pension programs by killing off the near-deads with what amounts to unwitting MAID injections? What's not to like?
Strange that they describe this as "the ninth wave" (at least that's how it was reported in Japan Today). Our world in data has a graph showing four waves for Japan so far. Might have been five but nine it definitely isn't. Do they take us for fools?
They say we have had 8 waves and as the counts are going up, it looks we are in a 9th. I counted 8 thus far, but that is based on the numbers and pronouncements given out here in Japan. As I understand, Our World Data can only go by the numbers each nation give it, I don’t know that they have their own data gathering.
I don't know which people are the worst now among Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. Even people in China who are living under a Communist regime can see through the lies better than them.
In Europe, people who lived under the commies are better able to see through the lies because they expect the govt and media to lie. I imagine it could be the same in East Asia.
I think the Japanese mask and vaccine phenomenon can be ascribed to one thing: Despite their high level of education the Japanese are completely hopeless in English. I think that not more than 1 or 2% of them ever read an article in English and therefore they're not even aware of the raging debate worldwide on the efficacy (and lethality) of the vaccines and the utter uselessness of masks. It Japan is not careful they will soon be an international laughing stock.
I am currently in Japan having arrived here from Malaysia. I am very familiar with both countries. Mask wearing in Malaysia is way down and falling fast. Maybe 10% outdoors and 30% indoors...many of these are mask mandated workers and cooks in restaurants, etc And there is a great deal of lockdown and vaccine scepticism in Malaysia. I was surprised by how many people there used the "scamdemic" word and generally were extremely critical of the official narrative. They're definitely onto it.
My guess is that about 50% of Malaysians read some English language internet or newspapers daily. They know that the whole fiasco was based on lies and deceit, whereas the Japanese still have the wool pulled over their eyes.
I personally ascribe Japan's high mask/vax rates more to conformism, but the govt/media's job of selling the jabs is made hugely easier by the inability of most people to read/watch non-Japanese sources of info. During the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, I showed a Daily Mail article about it to a Japanese guy who worked for one of the big companies over here and asked if he'd seen anything in Japanese media about it, already knowing the answer would be "No". His surprise was telling.
I was very impressed to learn that when the first big delegation of Japanese scholars were sent to Europe around the late 19th century they returned dressed in European clothes....suits and ties, top hats, the whole caboodle.
Within five years almost the whole country had abandoned its traditional dress and had adopted the European dress style. As far as I am aware there has been no comparable similar event in any other country. The Japanese are mass adopters and mass adapters.
I also remember the anti-cigarette campaign from the late 90s. That was one of the most amazing switcheroos I've ever come across. I remember the days when as you stepped off the curb at the Shibuya crossing on weekend nights the butts would be 10cms deep in the gutter.
Used to be a smoker's paradise. 65 percent of the males smoked! Now it's a nightmare. All stemmed from a bunch of Yanks complaining ceaselessly in the Japan Times.
The advertising campaign which preceded the crackdown was so outrageous!
By the way did you know that Japan's lung cancer rate on a percapita basis was only one sixth that of other comparable countries
“By the way did you know that Japan's lung cancer rate on a percapita basis was only one sixth that of other comparable countries.”
Nope, I didn’t know that. But I can hardly declare surprise since I write a blog about how Japan’s low death rate with another medical condition had little to do with their behaviour (pre-booster shots at least). Can you save me the effort of searching for confirmation by providing link?
This morning I had a private lesson with a person who recently traveled in a group to both Hawaii and S. Korea. They told be that the Japanese took off their masks after boarding the plane for Hawaii, went maskless the whole time there and started putting them back on about an hour out of Japan on the return trip. They notched that just a month after N. Korea dropped masking requirements that few were seen wearing them. This, to me, confirms your conformism theory. The shots are harder for me to get my head around as Japan had what I once thought as an unhealthy level of skepticism towards vaccines yet have been brought around to be, I believe, the most heavily covid vaxxed nation on the planet.
You may be correct. I have not been outside Japan since the panic started, however, planets of English speakers are all in on the masks. They too either are ignorant of the century of studies on masks preceding the panic and of those that do not report favorably on masks or they dismiss them out of hand. Plenty of med types too. Back in the States, my parents report that all the clinics and hospitals in their are still require them. My dad is a retired paramedic and pisses off the nurses and doctors who knew from working by questioning why they are wearing and requiring patients to wear masks. They believe it, the highly edjumacated idjits.
Reading this post makes me feel a deep sadness. I don't know if that is how you feel, but it's what comes through for me. This is all so utterly tragic.
During my 3+ years of living in a faceless society, I’ve felt more anger than sadness. Even now, I walk around outside wanting to scream “Take off the bloody masks!” One reason I write this blog is to get it out of my system
The absolute worst are the folks in my office that know it's all bullshit, but put on the mask for fear that they will lose clients. I mean, they are the one's that got the jab to travel (during a fucking pandemic), so I didn't have any respect for them left in the tank. They are not salvageable. To me, they are less than human.
There was an article on NHK Worlds twitter feed in March with some Japanese shyster, sorry I mean Doctor, She claimed that a study showed Japanese people used their whole face to communicate less than others and used their eyes more so the negative effect on communication didn't apply in their case. I did wonder if she ever went to a McDonalds in Japan at 7pm. They re full of single people sat facing away from each other unable to face going home alone.
Have to admit I love all this. It means the unmasked western expats in Japan will end up settling down with all the unmasked best looking Japanese women with the self confidence to see through it all. The germaphobic mask wearers will stay single and die off. On a separate note I'm in Hong Kong at present (Mask mandate dropped early last month and the hotter weather seeing less people using them for now). However I've nearly lost it with people opening doors or pressing bus stop buttons with a tissue covering their fingers!
I would LOVE to be able to communicate with sorry sack of shit of a “doctor”. My oldest kid is 9 and can now longer clearly understand the spoken word as he has been denied hearing it unobstructed for a full 1/3 of his life. Even his swim coaches worse masks IN THE FAUCING POOL. And most look to such idjits for leadership and policy decisions.
Since 2020, I've heard numerous "experts" say that Japanese people use their eyes more to communicate, whereas westerners use their mouths more, which they claim explains the difference in mask acceptance. It sounds dumber every time I hear it.
Makes me thankful to live in a small village rather than the city. I was amazed to find that people actually did the mask thing at all, and last week I spent a lot of time in the city and people were *still* wearing them. Not universally, but way, way more than I expected. Same with the shots. No families we are close with here got them, but it seems like everyone in the city did, which is totally crazy. Seems to be a massive divide in opinion between urban and rural.
Interesting. The prefectural vax data shows the biggest gaps are regional: the highest rates are in rural Tohoku, and the lowest are in Kansai and Okinawa. The biggest determinant seems to be trust in the Tokyo-based national government and media.
Same here. Now that my own kids can no longer clearly understand the spoken word due to everyone around them, save me and their mother who works until LATE at night, she’s working now, wearing art least one mask for these past three years I am fixin’ to EXPLODE.
Alexander Pope, poet of the Enlightenment, lent a famous line from his 1711 treatise 'An Essay on Criticism' to the US Institutes of Medicine's report on patient safety:
The National Geographic Magazine provided some useful graphics on the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak. The graphs showed how the outbreak progressed in a number of US cities. In most cases there were two waves and the shape of these waves varied quite lot between each city. Either way, there were two waves and then it went away - and there was no vaccine.
A whole revolver's worth. :D :D
Exactly! That's gold!! LOL
I'm sure it will work this time! hahahahahaha
Get fat off public money that can be legally stolen via Pfizer contracts while also saving the pension programs by killing off the near-deads with what amounts to unwitting MAID injections? What's not to like?
Ah yes, if 5 shots don't work, let's give them a 6th!
Looking forward to the next wave - and the new record death total.
I imagine people will be rushing out to get yet another booster in anticipation
Strange that they describe this as "the ninth wave" (at least that's how it was reported in Japan Today). Our world in data has a graph showing four waves for Japan so far. Might have been five but nine it definitely isn't. Do they take us for fools?
They say we have had 8 waves and as the counts are going up, it looks we are in a 9th. I counted 8 thus far, but that is based on the numbers and pronouncements given out here in Japan. As I understand, Our World Data can only go by the numbers each nation give it, I don’t know that they have their own data gathering.
I don't know which people are the worst now among Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. Even people in China who are living under a Communist regime can see through the lies better than them.
In Europe, people who lived under the commies are better able to see through the lies because they expect the govt and media to lie. I imagine it could be the same in East Asia.
Chinese students have told me that everyone there knows that everything the government says is a lie. At least until the go to university.
From Over Here: an old chestnut: Definition: Expert = a drip under pressure...
This country got so ducked when they elected the WEF puppet as PM. Centuries of honor, justice, courage down the drain in a year....
If this is true then this is another nail in Japan's coffin. All the children have been masked at school for almost three years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11982039/Face-masks-raise-risk-stillbirths-testicular-issues-cognitive-decline-study-says.html
I think the Japanese mask and vaccine phenomenon can be ascribed to one thing: Despite their high level of education the Japanese are completely hopeless in English. I think that not more than 1 or 2% of them ever read an article in English and therefore they're not even aware of the raging debate worldwide on the efficacy (and lethality) of the vaccines and the utter uselessness of masks. It Japan is not careful they will soon be an international laughing stock.
I am currently in Japan having arrived here from Malaysia. I am very familiar with both countries. Mask wearing in Malaysia is way down and falling fast. Maybe 10% outdoors and 30% indoors...many of these are mask mandated workers and cooks in restaurants, etc And there is a great deal of lockdown and vaccine scepticism in Malaysia. I was surprised by how many people there used the "scamdemic" word and generally were extremely critical of the official narrative. They're definitely onto it.
My guess is that about 50% of Malaysians read some English language internet or newspapers daily. They know that the whole fiasco was based on lies and deceit, whereas the Japanese still have the wool pulled over their eyes.
I personally ascribe Japan's high mask/vax rates more to conformism, but the govt/media's job of selling the jabs is made hugely easier by the inability of most people to read/watch non-Japanese sources of info. During the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, I showed a Daily Mail article about it to a Japanese guy who worked for one of the big companies over here and asked if he'd seen anything in Japanese media about it, already knowing the answer would be "No". His surprise was telling.
I was very impressed to learn that when the first big delegation of Japanese scholars were sent to Europe around the late 19th century they returned dressed in European clothes....suits and ties, top hats, the whole caboodle.
Within five years almost the whole country had abandoned its traditional dress and had adopted the European dress style. As far as I am aware there has been no comparable similar event in any other country. The Japanese are mass adopters and mass adapters.
I also remember the anti-cigarette campaign from the late 90s. That was one of the most amazing switcheroos I've ever come across. I remember the days when as you stepped off the curb at the Shibuya crossing on weekend nights the butts would be 10cms deep in the gutter.
Used to be a smoker's paradise. 65 percent of the males smoked! Now it's a nightmare. All stemmed from a bunch of Yanks complaining ceaselessly in the Japan Times.
The advertising campaign which preceded the crackdown was so outrageous!
By the way did you know that Japan's lung cancer rate on a percapita basis was only one sixth that of other comparable countries
“By the way did you know that Japan's lung cancer rate on a percapita basis was only one sixth that of other comparable countries.”
Nope, I didn’t know that. But I can hardly declare surprise since I write a blog about how Japan’s low death rate with another medical condition had little to do with their behaviour (pre-booster shots at least). Can you save me the effort of searching for confirmation by providing link?
This morning I had a private lesson with a person who recently traveled in a group to both Hawaii and S. Korea. They told be that the Japanese took off their masks after boarding the plane for Hawaii, went maskless the whole time there and started putting them back on about an hour out of Japan on the return trip. They notched that just a month after N. Korea dropped masking requirements that few were seen wearing them. This, to me, confirms your conformism theory. The shots are harder for me to get my head around as Japan had what I once thought as an unhealthy level of skepticism towards vaccines yet have been brought around to be, I believe, the most heavily covid vaxxed nation on the planet.
You may be correct. I have not been outside Japan since the panic started, however, planets of English speakers are all in on the masks. They too either are ignorant of the century of studies on masks preceding the panic and of those that do not report favorably on masks or they dismiss them out of hand. Plenty of med types too. Back in the States, my parents report that all the clinics and hospitals in their are still require them. My dad is a retired paramedic and pisses off the nurses and doctors who knew from working by questioning why they are wearing and requiring patients to wear masks. They believe it, the highly edjumacated idjits.
Based on your comment there are scads of particularly young people living in woke communities who apparently can’t read in English either.
Reading this post makes me feel a deep sadness. I don't know if that is how you feel, but it's what comes through for me. This is all so utterly tragic.
Thank you Guy for your work.
Thanks.
During my 3+ years of living in a faceless society, I’ve felt more anger than sadness. Even now, I walk around outside wanting to scream “Take off the bloody masks!” One reason I write this blog is to get it out of my system
The absolute worst are the folks in my office that know it's all bullshit, but put on the mask for fear that they will lose clients. I mean, they are the one's that got the jab to travel (during a fucking pandemic), so I didn't have any respect for them left in the tank. They are not salvageable. To me, they are less than human.
Yeah, I know. How long are they prepared to carry on not breathing properly?
Until they die. Seems to fit with their history.
There was an article on NHK Worlds twitter feed in March with some Japanese shyster, sorry I mean Doctor, She claimed that a study showed Japanese people used their whole face to communicate less than others and used their eyes more so the negative effect on communication didn't apply in their case. I did wonder if she ever went to a McDonalds in Japan at 7pm. They re full of single people sat facing away from each other unable to face going home alone.
Have to admit I love all this. It means the unmasked western expats in Japan will end up settling down with all the unmasked best looking Japanese women with the self confidence to see through it all. The germaphobic mask wearers will stay single and die off. On a separate note I'm in Hong Kong at present (Mask mandate dropped early last month and the hotter weather seeing less people using them for now). However I've nearly lost it with people opening doors or pressing bus stop buttons with a tissue covering their fingers!
I would LOVE to be able to communicate with sorry sack of shit of a “doctor”. My oldest kid is 9 and can now longer clearly understand the spoken word as he has been denied hearing it unobstructed for a full 1/3 of his life. Even his swim coaches worse masks IN THE FAUCING POOL. And most look to such idjits for leadership and policy decisions.
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Since 2020, I've heard numerous "experts" say that Japanese people use their eyes more to communicate, whereas westerners use their mouths more, which they claim explains the difference in mask acceptance. It sounds dumber every time I hear it.
Makes me thankful to live in a small village rather than the city. I was amazed to find that people actually did the mask thing at all, and last week I spent a lot of time in the city and people were *still* wearing them. Not universally, but way, way more than I expected. Same with the shots. No families we are close with here got them, but it seems like everyone in the city did, which is totally crazy. Seems to be a massive divide in opinion between urban and rural.
Interesting. The prefectural vax data shows the biggest gaps are regional: the highest rates are in rural Tohoku, and the lowest are in Kansai and Okinawa. The biggest determinant seems to be trust in the Tokyo-based national government and media.
Same here. Now that my own kids can no longer clearly understand the spoken word due to everyone around them, save me and their mother who works until LATE at night, she’s working now, wearing art least one mask for these past three years I am fixin’ to EXPLODE.
Oh, don't be sad...
'To Err Is Human'
Alexander Pope, poet of the Enlightenment, lent a famous line from his 1711 treatise 'An Essay on Criticism' to the US Institutes of Medicine's report on patient safety:
To Err is Human. The remainder of the line, “to forgive divine,” would have further reinforced the report's message. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225182/
Heres one you may know ..
....................
"in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why, remember how
...
in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)
....
in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if, remember yes
...
in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek (forgetting find)
and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me, remember me"
--e.e. cummings
They are not erring,, this is purposeful.
Are they also getting exciting about the fresh new Japanese CDC and, accordingly, the extended powers granted to the Prime Minister ? ^^
Sadly but very true. Imagine looking at the clown show that is the US CDC and thinking “That’s what we need here!”
That makes it official. Japan has gone Full Retard. There is no coming back from Full Retard.
If I had to specify when Japan went Full Retard, it'd be in late 2020 when the PM Suga advised people to wear masks between bites while dining out.
You are correct. I will update my labeling: Japan has gone Mega Full Retard.
They reached that point at least 2 years ago.
awesome: the first human-made pandemic in history. Tondemonai!
The National Geographic Magazine provided some useful graphics on the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak. The graphs showed how the outbreak progressed in a number of US cities. In most cases there were two waves and the shape of these waves varied quite lot between each city. Either way, there were two waves and then it went away - and there was no vaccine.