He first got into acting hoping it would be his stepping stone to a music career. Definitely earned his Nimoy moment.

I dunno why you’re getting dved for this. It’s certainly true in a lot of Japan.

Everyone knows how widely accepted masks are in Japan, but unfortunately there are misconceptions that go along with that acceptance. People will wear masks in a large restaurant with high ceilings, then go into a small poorly-ventilated bathroom and take the mask off to cough and blow their noses.

The reporting is really uneven and unreliable these days

That’s the common thinking, but apparently not really? I was bummed when I found out too.

Well, somebody asked about Japan, so I answered about Japan.

I hate to say it, but the milder-every-variant thing has been debunked.

Re: Japan, where to begin? The government restricted the 4th shot to people over 60, blatantly lying that those were the only people who could be harmed by Omicron. Now that the Omicron shot is out, people aren’t bothering to get it because they believed that. Gov’t has been quite open about choosing the economy over people’s health. Everybody’s going back to restaurants and social gatherings. Most citizens are still uninformed about the fact that you can catch Omicron every 4-6 weeks, and about things like long Covid and high-filtration masks. There are tons of people who don’t know about the importance of ventilation. Lots of them even still think that kids can’t get sick, or that it’s not dangerous if they do. Fully half the time I’ve known someone to show up with symptoms, they say it’s just allergies or “a cold.” Almost nobody gets tested anymore unless they have a fever that doesn’t go down for several days (actually that’s pretty much been the case since 2020, but at least the threat was taken more seriously then). A lot of cities don’t even publicize case numbers anymore. Most people are expected to test at home and self-report results now using a bunch of paperwork and several steps, which of course isn’t happening much. So we’ve basically been in one long wave since January of this year, with a few minor dips. [edit: I forgot that over the summer the government conducted a misleading campaign that made people think masks caused heatstroke. Before scientists could debunk it, we were having record numbers.]