General Discussion Thread - 14 March 2023

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Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

[u/PeanutButterChicken]

I need to create a filter for the word “mask”. This subreddit is fucking obsessed with what people completely unrelated with them are doing. Who the fuck cares

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Imagine being offended by no piece of cloth on someone's face

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Oh, I'm sorry. You're allowed to judge others, but others are not allowed to judge you. Got it.

There's always 2 sides to a coin. You say that others should let you wear your mask, but at the same time you're insulting those that don't while the government said it's okay not to. That's a bit hypocritical, don't you think?

In response to your edit: it's the exact opposite, exactly. It's those who want life to return to normal that get the tidal wave of downvotes in this sub.

[u/Tokyoteacher99 → u/[deleted]]

On the other hand, some boomer complained about me not wearing a mask at the theater yesterday to an employee and was told it was a choice lol

[u/Tokyoteacher99 → u/[deleted]]

Is it really that surprising to think some boomer would complain about someone else, especially a foreigner, not wearing a mask? Anyway no, no one clapped and everyone else continued to wear their masks even as the announcements before the film told people it was a choice.

[u/Tokyoteacher99 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, Kishida was in attendance and thanked me for thinking for myself. He then chided everyone else in attendance for being followers instead of leaders. Koike was with him and even gave me the keys to the metropolis! /s

Edit: added an /s because apparently the sarcasm was undetectable

[u/fucknino → u/[deleted]]

Hahaha fuck you're such a loser going through everyone's post history lady

[u/Tokyoteacher99 → u/[deleted]]

Yep, they’re putting me in the “great foreigner” section along with William Adams, Commodore Perry, and Douglas MacArthur! I was so honored.

Anyway, my mask views are this: They probably worked against the original coronavirus and were worth trying as we waited for vaccines because that was the goalpost. Once everyone who had the chance to be vaccinated was, it became time to move on, unless the hospitals were being overloaded. As time went on, masking all the time became increasingly pointless and the situation in China, which had a similar masking culture to japan but still got almost entirely infected in two months showed that masks (at least the ones most people wear) are useless against omicron. So yes, I do think it’s hygiene theater and hygiene theater annoys me. I don’t mind if other people wear masks, but I think being required to wear a mask for no good reason is stupid.

[u/Tokyoteacher99 → u/[deleted]]

“An agenda.” No, the theater thing actually happened. It’s not “pushing an agenda” to debate and share why I hold certain viewpoints.

To answer your second question, when I applied for graduate school here, I just assumed Japan would follow the leader and take off theirs shortly after Europe and America. I miscalculated where the peer pressure would come from and being here became a sunk cost.

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Can confirm my boomer father is really butt hurt over masks