A Japanese post-apocalyptic dystopian walk-through documentary
[Transcript, slightly modified]
Good morning from Tokyo! It's Tuesday the 4th of January 2022. Has Japan fallen? Well today we are going to have a little walk from a suburb of Tokyo into the center of Tokyo, Shibuya, and let's find out if the Japanese, as a people, have succumbed and declared defeat against the coronavirus measures.
I'm recording while walking because I think you have to see what's going on in this country. See the car there? The driver? He's wearing a mask!
Now this is the beautiest of all days. Look at the sunshine! It's uh midday.
Beautiful weather and everything... Everyone is wearing masks. Everyone!
It's been going on for two years now, starting in January 2020. Now, the Japanese are usually a very submissive and meek population. This has some advantages, right. If you work in a group against the virus, it's good.
But sometimes you can go overkill, like when everybody falls in line goose stepping.
I mean this is ridiculous: there are people walking alone on the streets with the face mask. No person around. There are people cycling alone with face mask. And another one! A young person.
I've seen this now for almost two years going on. It's everywhere the same. In the suburbs you see old ladies in their little garden front yards, watering the plants alone and wearing face masks.
What are they so afraid of? They're watching too much regime TV?
Now let's find some heroes who don't wear masks. This one.. no no no sorry, he has the mask! He's the one. That's a hero yeah yeah. That is a hero... there's another one... total failure! Face mask.
Another one. Face mask in black. Total failures!
Another two, very young athletic young men, wearing face masks on their bikes. Nah, you know this makes me sad. There's another one, a female, coming from shopping. Makes me very sad, because as a foreigner, of course, you look at this and... uh it is easy to point out weird stuff that a people is doing to itself.
The Suburbs
What's the science behind that? I mean is there a plague going on in this country? No it's not, it's absolutely not. There's no plague going on in this country at the moment. I mean this week they're testing like hell and they have like a hundred positive corona tests, right? A hundred positives in the entire country, that's ridiculous!
You know overall in the last two years there have been literally a little bit more than I don't know what is it? Eight thousand? Eight thousand or ten thousand corona deaths. There are more suicides in this country, more suicides than corona deaths.
Okay I'm switching back [the camera] now. You have to see this to believe it! Just passed a jogger wearing a face mask, poor guy, didn't film him.
Okay, as you can see, the streets are pretty empty.
It's a working day, everybody should be out you know, doing something. This is good for the economy right, but people are keeping social distance. I guess I mean [look] there are some people talking over there, and uh they're keeping the social distance with their masks on.
Good for you, yeah very good, so next one, yeah bicycle here. I want a face mask, yeah. Next is old man here, he has to wear a mask; he's probably uh three times waxed but HEHASTO wear face masks, no?