Oddbean new post about login | logout Why are there so many people with masks? I know that was a thing even before Covid lunacy, but why?
Cultural thing. People wear masks for allergies and common colds. We’re in a seasonal change and many people are sick. It’s common courtesy in Japan to wear a mask even if you suspect you have a cold. And some do it regardless out of habit.
Fashion and smog, mostly afaik
IMO: * Used to prevent allergies such as hay fever as well as COVID and colds. * In Japan, sick leave is one's own responsibility and the company does not protect. So many people are acting to protect themselves. * As the weather gets colder, the number of people infected with COVID and influenza is increasing and there are signs of an outbreak now
Si c'est en Asie et plus particulièrement le Japon bien avant la pandémie ce peuple avait coutume du port du masque pour se protéger et de ne pas contaminer autrui ou contre la pollution. Dans les supermarchés même les produits sont souvent protégés. Question d'hygiène Pablo. 🙏💜
It's part of the cultural package. I have been having this conversation for 30 years now. All the good things most people love about Japan are inextricably attached to all the bad things they hate about it too. Masks are a good example. They have always been used as a courtesy toward others, not so much to protect oneself -- in theory. In practice, the flip side is that they are just one more layer of antisocial behavior. And yes, with the excuse of covid mask use has noticeably skyrocketed and become a lot more prevalent, worsening even more the antisocial aspects of it. I don't live in Japan anymore but I go several times a year, so I really notice this kind of more subtle changes that people there may miss. And it's the same in China, Korea, HK, Taiwan, Singapore...
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Japanese (and Thais) were masking up long before Covid. (For different reasons, I presume.) It's common courtesy to mask up when you've got a cold, or when allergy season rolls around. Women also like ro mask up to save time on makeup. (It's a women thing we men couldn't seem to understand) Guys mask up for fashion too, plenty of cool mask / street fashion. There's also the problem with smog and pm2.5 dust And when you get used to it, not nasking feels naked. I'm usually the only crazy guy who doesn't wear a mask around in Bangkok as well. We are psychopaths. Lol.
Normal in Japan. 1. You can stay in your own world with drastically reduced human interaction. 2. Privacy; Tokyo is big and crowded. Part for safety but also many chicks wear as an alternative for makeup. 3. Politeness; if you have an active cold then a face mask signals care that you wont wet sneeze into a common space. Source: I've been travelling to Japan for a decade.
I don’t know if this is a real reason, I’ve never been to Japan but seems like the kind of place where facial recognition is everywhere. So throwing that one out too.
Conformity
Because of SARS-CoV. Asian countries got decimated by SARS-COV and started masking in public places ever since. SARS-CoV-2 just made it even more prevalent.
There’re broad reasons like shy or lazy girls might wanna hide their faces with minimum makeups, some tend to believe in non-practical folk beliefs for preventing from infection, and mostly Japanese people tend to cater to other people’s behavior to avoid problems. It’s a kind of cultural things. Kinda weird how they do that even for me as a Japanese guy🤤
If you are in Japan, which is what I'm assuming you are right now, Asia was brainwashed a lot earlier than the West starting with SARS in Hong Kong in 2002-3, and the bird flu H1N1 and other 'supposedly' highly contagious flu around asia at the time. People in HK wore masks to protect others from getting flu if they were feeling under the weather themselves; the asian societies are more collectivist and less individualist (like the west) IMO the whole SARS 2003 was the WEF + WHO test bed for the pre global pandemic that hit everyone in 2020. The WHO has been after a GTHF since 2015 to try to do a one world harmonization of all medical standards which supposedly is for the 'greater good', but has a darker agenda which is totalitarian control In general, those paper thin masks don't really don't really protect you or other people from much. They are used in medical practices to protect the patient if being operated or a procedure done on - think dentists or surgery. Masks are used in electronics manufacturing and medical device production to prevent your own breath from getting on the devices being worked in. The psychopathy of having to 'mask up' continuously without logical rationale is a symptom of brainwashing. I've been saying this since 2020 but I'm tired of it, and if people still want to wear masks that's their problem but don't force it on me. If you are in a society that is pro-conformist, you'll feel the social pressure to do it, however this is less of a problem if you appear are racially to be a foreigner. If you're a asian foreigner in asia, it can be a royal headache to be peer pressured to conform even more. Okay, End Rant.