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Japan is the only country in the world where the covid masks mandates are still in place in all hospitals, schools, nurseries, elderly homes, and in the workplace and the offices, universities, and restaurants. If you are working class in Japan, you must wear the mask. I wouldn't want to work in Japan under such conditions but, hey, the Japanese are happy because they feel safe.

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Japanese people are very superstitious. They will not stop wearing the corona masks now for another decade or two.

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There is an anti-vax, anti-mask, Japan-first, anti-NHK, anti-東大, pro-truth-good-and-beauty movement in Japan; it just doesn't get much publicity.

These are people smart enough to point out that Japanese law actually forbids non-doctors from diagnosing a disease—which means that everyone who ever pronounced anyone as sick with cOvId based on a PCR test is basically liable for prosecution.

Hopefully the 参政党 will get elected. 吉野敏明's video was good enough to get banned, maybe you would enjoy checking him out?

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It is an Asian thing. In Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, everyone is wearing the masks as identifiers of total compliance. It is in their history and their blood lines to conform to authority. In the Netherlands or Sweden... no masks. Unthinkable in Asia.

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You gotta mock and shame them. This way, they will feel offended and go overkill mode. So, society will collapse. Hopefully, the survivors can build back better. I doubt it though. They are like ants. They need American ant farmers to put them to good use. Otherwise, they cannot build their own civilization. Sad but true.

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It is appalling how you have a PhD and have been living in Japan for I don’t know how much, yet you don’t understand the people and their culture at all. This newsletter is basically just insult after insult to japan and it’s people. I noticed that even though westerners get PhDs it doesn’t actually mean they are able to see the world from another perspective rather than the American/Western one. After this newsletter I will unsubscribe from your email because of how disrespectful and ignorant I thought this email was.

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