I asked someone once about the masks, and he said that Japan is a mask-wearing culture. My response was: When in the history of Japan have 99.99% of the culture worn masks for a three-year period. He left the room after that.
I would like to add a few things about conformity. It is due to the lack of personal responsibility. Every person seems to pass the responsibility on to someone else or put too much trust into politicians, media, superiors. This is more dangerous than a virus. When 99.99 percent of a population cannot make their own decisions, there will be serious consequences. It has happened before; it is happening now; and I am afraid it will happen again in the future--what is left of it.
If Japan can get its people to commit war crimes on a large scale, get military doctors to perform vivisections on downed pilots (The "novel" The Sea and Poison depicts this), get its population to commit mass suicide, it can easily get them to hurt children without much thought.
Any parents with a sense of personal responsibility would immediately pull their child out of a school which forces this stupidity on children, regardless what the law says about schooling. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of education going on there. If there were, very few people would be wearing a mask or getting others to wear one.
My numbers could be off but I estimate that the total expenditure on masks for the past year has been about 468 billion (38 billion USD). I used half the population spending about 150 yen a week on masks (60,000,000 x 150 x 52). 468 billion for something that does more harm than good. Give me 4 million. That's all I'm asking. If I had that I would spend 17 hours a day pointing out this absurdity.
On the two occasions (pediatricians wearing lab coats and masks in med schools.) I have been able to corner other educators on why something that is known to be harmful continues, the answer was, “That’s what parents expect, what can we do?” My immediate response was, “How about educate them, we are in education?”. While I know not how to describe the facial expressions, they were priceless. My question ended both of these conversations.
They should be fired for conduct unbecoming of an educator, if there were such a thing. A pilot who puts his passengers in danger would be fired instantly. It should be the same for all professions.
Japan does have a law against causing death (Injury too?) due to “professional negligence”. This extends to anyone with a driver’s license, which they call “professional”, but as far as I have thus learned, it only applies for actively doing something. Not for not doing something.
Example. We have a situation dubbed “Taraimawashi” in which patients in an ambulance are refused by one or more hospitals. No one is arrested when a patient dies in the back of an ambulance as it is turned away by hospital after hospital. However, if the patient dies after being accepted by a hospital, and investigation is at least possible.
Therefore, I do not think that anyone could be arrested for not instructing their students on the dangers of wearing masks or the adverse affects of lab coats being worn by pediatricians. You’d think that their would be liability for mask induced illness but that falls under the “shoganai” (Oh well!) category, in much the same way the CDC’s recommendation of the clot shot for school kids insulates vaccine makers from liability.
All that applies to med. schools too. I have several posts on what med. schools here have done/are doing. Partitions, different scheduled times to dine in the cafeteria for med students, nursing students and employees, Mokushoku. Masks, of course. Spaying disinfectant on desk tops and chairs at the start and end of classes and on hands upon entering and leaving not only the building but classrooms too. And these will the doctors and nurses serving Japan in a few years.
Good luck. While they exist, they exist because they play the fool rather than be one. Not sure that is much difference. I work(ed?) with an infectious disease expert. When I asked him we he was wearing a mask, he answered, “It’s political.”. He continued saying that everyone in his field knew that everything there were having us do was pointless but that no one can speak out. When ever I am on campus and he is as well, I see him along with everyone else spraying and wiping the walls of empty rooms.
I get it about conformity culture and the nail that sticks out getting hammered and all that, but at some point the dam has to break on this institutionalized child abuse, right? Soon, right!?
I remember when the new era name was announced in 2019, and there were some misgivings about it, since reiwa could be read as harmony through order/command. Who imagined that concern would be so horrifyingly instantiated within mere months?
I believe the WEF and Klaus Schwab Square Pants in particular says that Asian populations will be over represented in the 5 million or whatever it is who are allowed to remain alive, due to their rule obeying traditions.
I asked someone once about the masks, and he said that Japan is a mask-wearing culture. My response was: When in the history of Japan have 99.99% of the culture worn masks for a three-year period. He left the room after that.
I would like to add a few things about conformity. It is due to the lack of personal responsibility. Every person seems to pass the responsibility on to someone else or put too much trust into politicians, media, superiors. This is more dangerous than a virus. When 99.99 percent of a population cannot make their own decisions, there will be serious consequences. It has happened before; it is happening now; and I am afraid it will happen again in the future--what is left of it.
If Japan can get its people to commit war crimes on a large scale, get military doctors to perform vivisections on downed pilots (The "novel" The Sea and Poison depicts this), get its population to commit mass suicide, it can easily get them to hurt children without much thought.
Any parents with a sense of personal responsibility would immediately pull their child out of a school which forces this stupidity on children, regardless what the law says about schooling. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of education going on there. If there were, very few people would be wearing a mask or getting others to wear one.
My numbers could be off but I estimate that the total expenditure on masks for the past year has been about 468 billion (38 billion USD). I used half the population spending about 150 yen a week on masks (60,000,000 x 150 x 52). 468 billion for something that does more harm than good. Give me 4 million. That's all I'm asking. If I had that I would spend 17 hours a day pointing out this absurdity.
On the two occasions (pediatricians wearing lab coats and masks in med schools.) I have been able to corner other educators on why something that is known to be harmful continues, the answer was, “That’s what parents expect, what can we do?” My immediate response was, “How about educate them, we are in education?”. While I know not how to describe the facial expressions, they were priceless. My question ended both of these conversations.
They should be fired for conduct unbecoming of an educator, if there were such a thing. A pilot who puts his passengers in danger would be fired instantly. It should be the same for all professions.
Japan does have a law against causing death (Injury too?) due to “professional negligence”. This extends to anyone with a driver’s license, which they call “professional”, but as far as I have thus learned, it only applies for actively doing something. Not for not doing something.
Example. We have a situation dubbed “Taraimawashi” in which patients in an ambulance are refused by one or more hospitals. No one is arrested when a patient dies in the back of an ambulance as it is turned away by hospital after hospital. However, if the patient dies after being accepted by a hospital, and investigation is at least possible.
Therefore, I do not think that anyone could be arrested for not instructing their students on the dangers of wearing masks or the adverse affects of lab coats being worn by pediatricians. You’d think that their would be liability for mask induced illness but that falls under the “shoganai” (Oh well!) category, in much the same way the CDC’s recommendation of the clot shot for school kids insulates vaccine makers from liability.
It is all one Faucing, fetid pile of unchi.
All that applies to med. schools too. I have several posts on what med. schools here have done/are doing. Partitions, different scheduled times to dine in the cafeteria for med students, nursing students and employees, Mokushoku. Masks, of course. Spaying disinfectant on desk tops and chairs at the start and end of classes and on hands upon entering and leaving not only the building but classrooms too. And these will the doctors and nurses serving Japan in a few years.
That's a scary thought. I need to find a doctor who is not a brainwashed fool. That's probably difficult.
Good luck. While they exist, they exist because they play the fool rather than be one. Not sure that is much difference. I work(ed?) with an infectious disease expert. When I asked him we he was wearing a mask, he answered, “It’s political.”. He continued saying that everyone in his field knew that everything there were having us do was pointless but that no one can speak out. When ever I am on campus and he is as well, I see him along with everyone else spraying and wiping the walls of empty rooms.
WTF.
This is one part superstitious nonsense and one part, what.
Like Jim Jones, only the poison coolaid is injectable.
And that "lunch" is non-nutritive.
IMHO, the Japanese need to consider this:
It takes a stupid person to make a stupid rule,
And a fool to mind it.
Do not be a stupid.
Do not be a fool.
They have a different calculus.
I get it about conformity culture and the nail that sticks out getting hammered and all that, but at some point the dam has to break on this institutionalized child abuse, right? Soon, right!?
I remember when the new era name was announced in 2019, and there were some misgivings about it, since reiwa could be read as harmony through order/command. Who imagined that concern would be so horrifyingly instantiated within mere months?
Jesus, poor kids.
I believe the WEF and Klaus Schwab Square Pants in particular says that Asian populations will be over represented in the 5 million or whatever it is who are allowed to remain alive, due to their rule obeying traditions.
Jo