A good paper was recently published in Frontiers in Public Health covering similar topics to this blog. The paper is well worth reading in full, although it would’ve been better if it’d been proofread by a native English speaker. Shobako reviews the scientific literature showing Japan’s school closures and requests to stay home in 2020 worsened children’s health due to lack of physical activity and less balanced eating habits. He also reviews the many studies that have found masks to make no difference to infection risk and studies of their various negative side effects, especially how their hinder children’s ability to read facial expressions. Important topics, but nothing you didn’t know already.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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