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Japan allows no immigration despite an aging and declining population. It wants to maintain its language, culture heritage and social cohesion above all else. With zero diversity, it has one of the highest levels of prosperity among the countries of the world. It also does not have economic, media and academic elites constantly criticizing the Japanese people for being racist, misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic. And all the while the Western mainstream media never dares to criticize Japan for its clear policy of Japan for the Japanese.
The japanese didn’t have to steal japan from any indigenous people, and destroy their culture and way of life. At least not in the past few hundred years. Never mind that they invaded a lot of countries and perpetrated some horrific war crimes on them.
But good for them on their current policies…Japan is one of the oriental countries that I have some desire to visit.
The japanese didn’t have to steal japan from any indigenous people
I’m sure the Ainu and the Ryukyuans might disagree.
Look into how their law enforcement works. They are xenophobes with some very strict social codes. A simple accusation for shoplifting, or even littering, whether true or not, is enough to lock you up indefinitely, without trial.
BG: Ah yes, the noble indigenous people that first inhabited the Americas who regularly stole land from each other, kept slaves, ate humans, treated women as property and engaged in human sacrifices. It is indeed a great pity that that “their culture and way of life” was destroyed.
“The japanese didn’t have to steal japan from any indigenous people, and destroy their culture and way of life. ”
Vomits.
It is a moral duty of civilized to protect land and wealth from savages. Savages do not have land or culture and their way of life ought not to be preserved.
Japan’s history is of war and conquest, including external attack time and time again, notably from China. Go learn something.
Luckily the Japanese don’t have to listen to idiotic remarks such as yours or other non sequitur grinded axes, they have a political culture only two generations removed from totalitarian despotism that promised them prosperity but delivered destruction.
Are you arguing since there was no genocide against NA natives in Japan, just centuries of senseless slaughter, they have the lowest covid death and the highest vaccinated rates of the large populated nations, except Mainland China (yeah right)?
Vaccination rate 74%, without overlord edicts. Japan’s daily death rate now <1/10 million, 6 cases/100k, overall deaths 15/100k. Compare deaths to Canada at 83, USA 254, UK 226, Did their genocides lead to eclipsing the lock down unenlightened despots?
Letting the Brown’s Black’s and non Cristian Pagan’s into a country only dilutes and cheapens it.
Spare us the nonsense from countries that you know nothing about.
Western countries are filled with a–holes who see “suggestions” from the government as things that can be ignored. Not so for Japanese who follow social conventions without question. If the government recommends something they listen. So it is dishonest to claim that Japanese government policies could be replicated in other countries. 80% of the country is now vaccinated.
More importantly, the Japanese also don’t fight social distancing measures. Mask usage is close to 100% with no mandate. If government recommends they stay home they stay home. They have always been diligent about hand washing. Widespread compliance which one would never see in Canada makes it a lot easier to manage COVID without vaccine mandates (i.e. mandates in Canada are to compensate for a population that refuses to follow basic disease control measures).
Japan also has the strict border controls. No one is allowed in the country other than Japanese and permanent residents and when they do arrive it is mandatory 14 day quarantine either in a hotel designated by the government or at one’s own residence enforced with spying apps installed on a cell phone which one is required to carry. Japan’s vaccine policy cannot be separated from its border control policies because the latter allows for the former.
If you actually believe that violating the fundamental rights of millions or billions in order to very slightly reduce your chance of dying from 0.5% to 0.3%, then you are not only a narcissist and a tyrant, but also a coward, and not fit for civil society.
YW, 100% correct.
You seem to have missed the point.
I would have more sympathy for anti-vaxxers if they, like the Japanese, were diligent about following other disease prevent protocols such as masking and social distancing. Unfortunately, anti-vaxxers most often reject all public health measures which makes them nothing but narcissist sociopaths that have no right to complain about governments doing whatever they can to stop the system from being overwhelmed.
Fuck off and wear your hazmat suit, you narcissistic, tyrannical coward.
TinG
Explain to me professor, how a cloth or paper face mask will prevent ingress or egress of sub micron particulate matter..?? Not a hope in hell sonny
Wanna be 100% safe..?
SCBA
Military Nuclear/Chemical/Bio hazard suit
HAZMAT.
Those are the only 3 ways to be sure..if you’re that freaked out by the flu.
I would suggest in your case, YOU wear all 3.
2ndly. Social Distancing and it’s cousin Hand Sanitizer both do more to CONTINUE the spread of a virus..than combat it. Human being require a steady intake of biologic pathogens to maintain immune system robustness…
Basic Biology…I refuse to wear a mask, never use sanitizer and could care less about the utter BS of Social Distancing … all items DESIGNED to isolate one from humanity…but you go sonny – have at er…Im out.
It’s complete Fking imbeciles spewing idiocy just like you have that are the biggest issue in this country…
Shove your self-righteousness up your ass, you mental defective. People with your sort of attitude deserve every bad side effect from the !vaxx and a serious case of COVID on top of that.
See how that works?
Oh please, our fearless leaders who impose all other disease prevent protocols such as masking and social distancing are out doing just the opposite that they impose on everyone else when they are out of the public eye and vacation to states that have lax preventive protocols such as the state of Florida. Example would be a certain person of color wearing an expensive “Tax The Rich” white dress to some elite extravaganza mask less and go onto some bla bla about women of color and if you observe there are plenty women of color servants lined up wearing mask waiting to serve this elitist bitch. The examples are endless.
The fact you use the term “anti-vaxer” shows your absolute ignorance of facts and reality.
Move out of your mom’s basement and begin your journey to adulthood.
“The fact you use the term “anti-vaxer” shows your absolute ignorance of facts and reality.”
Bingo!
Yes, dear.
That’s nice.
Not substantiated or anything, but that’s nice.
“I would have more sympathy for anti-vaxxers baaaah baaaah baaaah”
No you would not. Not when you slander them as “anti-vaxxers” in the first place. Not taking the Wuhan Flu vaccine does not make one an “anti-vaxxer”.
You do not hate “anti-vaxxers” for representing some imaginary threat to someone, you hate them for not conforming, for refusing to play the Trudopean Simon Says game. That is their ultimate sin.
You would volunteer to herd refuseniks to cattle cars.
Shouldn’t you be pushing Jews onto a cattlecar somewhere?
If government recommends they stay home they stay home
No they don’t, gaijin.
Spare us the nonsense from countries that you know nothing about.
Oh, the irony.
I have multiple university friends who emigrated to Japan and have now been working there for multiple decades. Their experience is somewhat different than your weeaboo assumptions.
OttawaMJ’s claim that “it has one of the highest levels of prosperity among the countries of the world” is likewise complete bollocks. Japan has been laboring under the effects of multiple decades of “quantitative easing”, to the point that job security is tenuous at best, wages are low and cost of living high (even more so than for an isolated island nation with relatively little arable land).
If someone is sick they conceal it and go to work because if they stay home they’ll get fired. Yes, that’s illegal; no the employers don’t care. If someone tests positive and anyone else in the office subsequently tests positive, the initial employee will be fired. Yes, that’s illegal; no, the employers don’t care. More often than not, anyone who tests positive will be fired just for testing positive. Yes, that’s illegal; no, the employers don’t care.
So people don’t get tested and don’t stay home, making most of the numbers out of Japan meaningless.
the Japanese also don’t fight social distancing measures
The subway trains are no less packed now than before the pandemic.
Agreed DR
I worked in Japan for a few months and what you describe is pretty much what I saw firsthand. Everyone has this mystical vision of what the place is like. I was based in Nagoya and they were burning garbage on the sidewalks, LOL. this was only 20 years ago.
>> I have multiple university friends who emigrated to Japan and have now been working there for multiple decades.
You know crap about how I have my knowledge. It is first hand and I have lived there for many years.
>> If someone is sick they conceal it and go to work because if they stay home they’ll get fired.
IOW, you are saying the video is full of crap because it makes claims that are not true in practice. I agree that social constraints in Japan mean the restrictions on Japanese are often much greater than they appear on paper which is why I said the video is full of crap.
>> The subway trains are no less packed now than before the pandemic.
Yes – but 100% of people wear masks without whining. And stores and shopping malls and empty when the government recommends that people stay home. People go to work if they can’t work remotely but that is true everywhere.
The most important difference is Japan does not have an a–hole subculture that spends all its time making excuses for rejecting every recommended public health measure. That makes a huge difference and shows up in the lower transmission rates.
Thank you for white-splaining things, dear.
^ Mike drop.
Tim.
Proper analysis of measures, strictness and timing shows that the vast majority of benefit from non-therapeutic preventative measures has come from VOLUNTARY measures, and that lockdowns have added very little. That holds good around the world, so it is wrong and dishonest to plead that Japan is some kind of special case due to social compliance.
Don’t pretend that wearing facemasks has anything to do with low rates of spread or fatalities, either. There is no evidence to support that claim, and repeating it simply shows that you haven’t done your homework.
Likewise citing vaccination rates. Some of the most vaccinated populations on earth are seeing new spikes in infection rates. The vaccines are not working as advertised, so arguing that low fatality rates in Japan can be attributed to vaccination levels is false and bordering on outright dishonesty.
>> Proper analysis of measures, strictness and timing shows that the vast majority of benefit from non-therapeutic preventative measures has come from VOLUNTARY measures
VOLUNTARY measures only work in societies where there is not a significant segment of society determined to reject any and all health recommendations like we have in the Canada and the US.
>> Don’t pretend that wearing facemasks has anything to do with low rates of spread or fatalities
Facemasks, handwashing and social distancing all reduce the spread of disease. The operative word is reduce – not prevent. Claiming that a measure must be 100% effective to be useful is nonsense argument.
>> The vaccines are not working as advertised,
Vaccines reduced transmission and death. This is a fact supported by many studies. All of the unvaxxed are freeloaders that benefit from the fact that the majority of people choose to get vaxxinated. That said, Omicron has thrown a wrench into the works so governments will likely need a new strategy. Whatever it ends up being it will not involve simply giving up.
“All of the unvaxxed are freeloaders that benefit from the fact that the majority of people choose to get vaxxinated.”
Bullshit. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are acting out of perceived self interest just like those who choose to get vaccinated. None who chooses to get vaccinated does so to protect others (protect family members possibly) but society as whole? Don’t make me laugh. Also, none has any obligation to protect you. Also, you’re a collectivist swine. Also FOAD.
>> Those who choose not to get vaccinated are acting out of perceived self interest just like those who choose to get vaccinated.
That is where the difference is. Many people choose to get vaccinated because they understand that vaccines are most effective when they are widely adopted. Protecting themselves is a secondary concern. Your response is an excellent example of the sociopathic narcissism that is endemic among anti-vaxxers. You project your own narcissism onto others because you can’t comprehend that others understand that others do act based on a perceived obligation to society. In Japan, acting due to obligation to society is a power motivator.
“Many people choose to get vaccinated because they understand that vaccines are most effective when they are widely adopted. Protecting themselves is a secondary concern. ”
None, literarily none, did that you lying sack of shit. That’s a liberal mirage. Moreover none who thought that the vaccines are dangerous decided to take a risk in the name of greater social good. Ergo self interest.
Besides as H. L. Mencken have said: “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” And that in the end summarizes your behavior and dear leader who you fellate.
Finally, undermining the state and the autocrats is a contribution to greater social good, bending over for them and demanding others bend over with you isn’t.
“VOLUNTARY measures only work in societies …
… where there is social cohesion, where the state can be trusted not to be wholly owned by foreign special interest groups, where it has a record of acting in the national interest. ”
FTFY.
“Spare us the nonsense from countries that you know nothing about.”
Proving yet again that commies are irony proof. Black Pigeon spent many years living in Japan, I think he still lives there now. He has have been reporting about Japanese culture, customs and way of life years before the Wuhan Flu. So how many years have you spent in Japan?
>> He has have been reporting about Japanese culture, customs and way of life years before the Wuhan Flu. So how many years have you spent in Japan?
Off and on for 30 years. Blackpigeon sees what he wants to see. The fact that he quotes from a ministry site without any discussion of how social obligations are more binding on Japanese than any government dictat suggests he is more interested in making a political statement than helping people understand what is going on in Japan.
“Blackpigeon sees what he wants to see. ”
Talk about projection.
In any case, Japan has 78.9% vaccination rate, Canada has 77.7% so that “asshole culture” appears to make a whole 1% difference. Are you claiming that if we had an extra 1% vaccinated, the state (that you are fellating so eagerly) would not be imposing draconian restrictions on us?
BTW did you miss the part where the Japanese government appeals for no discrimination against the unvaccinated?
And about those social obligations, are you claiming that Japanese don’t have to protect each other via vaccination? Why is that?
Don’t bother answering, you contradict yourself every second sentence. You’re a demagogue and a collectivist.
>> Are you claiming that if we had an extra 1% vaccinated
I am claiming that if Canadians/Americans has the same attitude towards mask wearing, hand washing and border control we would have similar rates. I mentioned it above but a big part of their success comes from border control measures which we can’t really implement in Canada because any policies we have will be undermined by looser US policies.
The fact that Omicron got into Japan via US bases (which allow military personal to bypass quarantine) is proof of how important border control is.
We have the similar rates. And mandates, and draconian restrictions and harassment of unvaccinated have nothing to do with it.
The march in Quebec should be happening everywhere.
It did in Toronto.
NO media broadcast it.
Was a small turnout.
Several thousand that streamed up Yonge Street.
Some are fighting back in their own way.
Very early in Japan’s post-WW2 political life–there was a Socialist Party running for office. A very brave, young man, Otoya Yamaguchi literally stabbed the leader, Inejiro Asanuma of the Japan Socialist Party with a katana (samurai sword) during a televised debate. That’s how Tommy Douglas and his ilk should have been treated…as well as Pierre T.
The Japanese, who invented Ivermectin, have also been using it.
But I am made to understand that using such a drug is what quaint, overseas countries do, not Canada which prefers to do nothing but lock everything down.
>>The Japanese, who invented Ivermectin, have also been using it.
Nonsense. Ivermectin is not approved for use in Japan to treat COVID. There is one guy who pushed last August it but he has no authority to approve its usage. The drop in cases in the last wave was entirely due to the roll out of vaccines.
All Jabbers like TimG need to expire with out a whimper due to the jabb
as it is after all a self inflicted impairment.
No, while TimG would make world a better place if he decided to start an old fashioned asbestos removal business, people who consciously decided to get a vaccine do not deserve to be harmed. It is, and should always be an individual decision made with no coercion.
Japan allows no immigration despite an aging and declining population. It wants to maintain its language, culture heritage and social cohesion above all else. With zero diversity, it has one of the highest levels of prosperity among the countries of the world. It also does not have economic, media and academic elites constantly criticizing the Japanese people for being racist, misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic. And all the while the Western mainstream media never dares to criticize Japan for its clear policy of Japan for the Japanese.
The japanese didn’t have to steal japan from any indigenous people, and destroy their culture and way of life. At least not in the past few hundred years. Never mind that they invaded a lot of countries and perpetrated some horrific war crimes on them.
But good for them on their current policies…Japan is one of the oriental countries that I have some desire to visit.
The japanese didn’t have to steal japan from any indigenous people
I’m sure the Ainu and the Ryukyuans might disagree.
Look into how their law enforcement works. They are xenophobes with some very strict social codes. A simple accusation for shoplifting, or even littering, whether true or not, is enough to lock you up indefinitely, without trial.
BG: Ah yes, the noble indigenous people that first inhabited the Americas who regularly stole land from each other, kept slaves, ate humans, treated women as property and engaged in human sacrifices. It is indeed a great pity that that “their culture and way of life” was destroyed.
“The japanese didn’t have to steal japan from any indigenous people, and destroy their culture and way of life. ”
Vomits.
It is a moral duty of civilized to protect land and wealth from savages. Savages do not have land or culture and their way of life ought not to be preserved.
Japan’s history is of war and conquest, including external attack time and time again, notably from China. Go learn something.
Luckily the Japanese don’t have to listen to idiotic remarks such as yours or other non sequitur grinded axes, they have a political culture only two generations removed from totalitarian despotism that promised them prosperity but delivered destruction.
Are you arguing since there was no genocide against NA natives in Japan, just centuries of senseless slaughter, they have the lowest covid death and the highest vaccinated rates of the large populated nations, except Mainland China (yeah right)?
Vaccination rate 74%, without overlord edicts. Japan’s daily death rate now <1/10 million, 6 cases/100k, overall deaths 15/100k. Compare deaths to Canada at 83, USA 254, UK 226, Did their genocides lead to eclipsing the lock down unenlightened despots?
Letting the Brown’s Black’s and non Cristian Pagan’s into a country only dilutes and cheapens it.
Spare us the nonsense from countries that you know nothing about.
Western countries are filled with a–holes who see “suggestions” from the government as things that can be ignored. Not so for Japanese who follow social conventions without question. If the government recommends something they listen. So it is dishonest to claim that Japanese government policies could be replicated in other countries. 80% of the country is now vaccinated.
More importantly, the Japanese also don’t fight social distancing measures. Mask usage is close to 100% with no mandate. If government recommends they stay home they stay home. They have always been diligent about hand washing. Widespread compliance which one would never see in Canada makes it a lot easier to manage COVID without vaccine mandates (i.e. mandates in Canada are to compensate for a population that refuses to follow basic disease control measures).
Japan also has the strict border controls. No one is allowed in the country other than Japanese and permanent residents and when they do arrive it is mandatory 14 day quarantine either in a hotel designated by the government or at one’s own residence enforced with spying apps installed on a cell phone which one is required to carry. Japan’s vaccine policy cannot be separated from its border control policies because the latter allows for the former.
If you actually believe that violating the fundamental rights of millions or billions in order to very slightly reduce your chance of dying from 0.5% to 0.3%, then you are not only a narcissist and a tyrant, but also a coward, and not fit for civil society.
YW, 100% correct.
You seem to have missed the point.
I would have more sympathy for anti-vaxxers if they, like the Japanese, were diligent about following other disease prevent protocols such as masking and social distancing. Unfortunately, anti-vaxxers most often reject all public health measures which makes them nothing but narcissist sociopaths that have no right to complain about governments doing whatever they can to stop the system from being overwhelmed.
Fuck off and wear your hazmat suit, you narcissistic, tyrannical coward.
TinG
Explain to me professor, how a cloth or paper face mask will prevent ingress or egress of sub micron particulate matter..?? Not a hope in hell sonny
Wanna be 100% safe..?
SCBA
Military Nuclear/Chemical/Bio hazard suit
HAZMAT.
Those are the only 3 ways to be sure..if you’re that freaked out by the flu.
I would suggest in your case, YOU wear all 3.
2ndly. Social Distancing and it’s cousin Hand Sanitizer both do more to CONTINUE the spread of a virus..than combat it. Human being require a steady intake of biologic pathogens to maintain immune system robustness…
Basic Biology…I refuse to wear a mask, never use sanitizer and could care less about the utter BS of Social Distancing … all items DESIGNED to isolate one from humanity…but you go sonny – have at er…Im out.
It’s complete Fking imbeciles spewing idiocy just like you have that are the biggest issue in this country…
Shove your self-righteousness up your ass, you mental defective. People with your sort of attitude deserve every bad side effect from the !vaxx and a serious case of COVID on top of that.
See how that works?
Oh please, our fearless leaders who impose all other disease prevent protocols such as masking and social distancing are out doing just the opposite that they impose on everyone else when they are out of the public eye and vacation to states that have lax preventive protocols such as the state of Florida. Example would be a certain person of color wearing an expensive “Tax The Rich” white dress to some elite extravaganza mask less and go onto some bla bla about women of color and if you observe there are plenty women of color servants lined up wearing mask waiting to serve this elitist bitch. The examples are endless.
The fact you use the term “anti-vaxer” shows your absolute ignorance of facts and reality.
Move out of your mom’s basement and begin your journey to adulthood.
“The fact you use the term “anti-vaxer” shows your absolute ignorance of facts and reality.”
Bingo!
Yes, dear.
That’s nice.
Not substantiated or anything, but that’s nice.
“I would have more sympathy for anti-vaxxers baaaah baaaah baaaah”
No you would not. Not when you slander them as “anti-vaxxers” in the first place. Not taking the Wuhan Flu vaccine does not make one an “anti-vaxxer”.
You do not hate “anti-vaxxers” for representing some imaginary threat to someone, you hate them for not conforming, for refusing to play the Trudopean Simon Says game. That is their ultimate sin.
You would volunteer to herd refuseniks to cattle cars.
Shouldn’t you be pushing Jews onto a cattlecar somewhere?
If government recommends they stay home they stay home
No they don’t, gaijin.
Spare us the nonsense from countries that you know nothing about.
Oh, the irony.
I have multiple university friends who emigrated to Japan and have now been working there for multiple decades. Their experience is somewhat different than your weeaboo assumptions.
OttawaMJ’s claim that “it has one of the highest levels of prosperity among the countries of the world” is likewise complete bollocks. Japan has been laboring under the effects of multiple decades of “quantitative easing”, to the point that job security is tenuous at best, wages are low and cost of living high (even more so than for an isolated island nation with relatively little arable land).
If someone is sick they conceal it and go to work because if they stay home they’ll get fired. Yes, that’s illegal; no the employers don’t care. If someone tests positive and anyone else in the office subsequently tests positive, the initial employee will be fired. Yes, that’s illegal; no, the employers don’t care. More often than not, anyone who tests positive will be fired just for testing positive. Yes, that’s illegal; no, the employers don’t care.
So people don’t get tested and don’t stay home, making most of the numbers out of Japan meaningless.
the Japanese also don’t fight social distancing measures
The subway trains are no less packed now than before the pandemic.
Agreed DR
I worked in Japan for a few months and what you describe is pretty much what I saw firsthand. Everyone has this mystical vision of what the place is like. I was based in Nagoya and they were burning garbage on the sidewalks, LOL. this was only 20 years ago.
>> I have multiple university friends who emigrated to Japan and have now been working there for multiple decades.
You know crap about how I have my knowledge. It is first hand and I have lived there for many years.
>> If someone is sick they conceal it and go to work because if they stay home they’ll get fired.
IOW, you are saying the video is full of crap because it makes claims that are not true in practice. I agree that social constraints in Japan mean the restrictions on Japanese are often much greater than they appear on paper which is why I said the video is full of crap.
>> The subway trains are no less packed now than before the pandemic.
Yes – but 100% of people wear masks without whining. And stores and shopping malls and empty when the government recommends that people stay home. People go to work if they can’t work remotely but that is true everywhere.
The most important difference is Japan does not have an a–hole subculture that spends all its time making excuses for rejecting every recommended public health measure. That makes a huge difference and shows up in the lower transmission rates.
Thank you for white-splaining things, dear.
^ Mike drop.
Tim.
Proper analysis of measures, strictness and timing shows that the vast majority of benefit from non-therapeutic preventative measures has come from VOLUNTARY measures, and that lockdowns have added very little. That holds good around the world, so it is wrong and dishonest to plead that Japan is some kind of special case due to social compliance.
Don’t pretend that wearing facemasks has anything to do with low rates of spread or fatalities, either. There is no evidence to support that claim, and repeating it simply shows that you haven’t done your homework.
Likewise citing vaccination rates. Some of the most vaccinated populations on earth are seeing new spikes in infection rates. The vaccines are not working as advertised, so arguing that low fatality rates in Japan can be attributed to vaccination levels is false and bordering on outright dishonesty.
>> Proper analysis of measures, strictness and timing shows that the vast majority of benefit from non-therapeutic preventative measures has come from VOLUNTARY measures
VOLUNTARY measures only work in societies where there is not a significant segment of society determined to reject any and all health recommendations like we have in the Canada and the US.
>> Don’t pretend that wearing facemasks has anything to do with low rates of spread or fatalities
Facemasks, handwashing and social distancing all reduce the spread of disease. The operative word is reduce – not prevent. Claiming that a measure must be 100% effective to be useful is nonsense argument.
>> The vaccines are not working as advertised,
Vaccines reduced transmission and death. This is a fact supported by many studies. All of the unvaxxed are freeloaders that benefit from the fact that the majority of people choose to get vaxxinated. That said, Omicron has thrown a wrench into the works so governments will likely need a new strategy. Whatever it ends up being it will not involve simply giving up.
“All of the unvaxxed are freeloaders that benefit from the fact that the majority of people choose to get vaxxinated.”
Bullshit. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are acting out of perceived self interest just like those who choose to get vaccinated. None who chooses to get vaccinated does so to protect others (protect family members possibly) but society as whole? Don’t make me laugh. Also, none has any obligation to protect you. Also, you’re a collectivist swine. Also FOAD.
>> Those who choose not to get vaccinated are acting out of perceived self interest just like those who choose to get vaccinated.
That is where the difference is. Many people choose to get vaccinated because they understand that vaccines are most effective when they are widely adopted. Protecting themselves is a secondary concern. Your response is an excellent example of the sociopathic narcissism that is endemic among anti-vaxxers. You project your own narcissism onto others because you can’t comprehend that others understand that others do act based on a perceived obligation to society. In Japan, acting due to obligation to society is a power motivator.
“Many people choose to get vaccinated because they understand that vaccines are most effective when they are widely adopted. Protecting themselves is a secondary concern. ”
None, literarily none, did that you lying sack of shit. That’s a liberal mirage. Moreover none who thought that the vaccines are dangerous decided to take a risk in the name of greater social good. Ergo self interest.
Besides as H. L. Mencken have said: “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” And that in the end summarizes your behavior and dear leader who you fellate.
Finally, undermining the state and the autocrats is a contribution to greater social good, bending over for them and demanding others bend over with you isn’t.
“VOLUNTARY measures only work in societies …
… where there is social cohesion, where the state can be trusted not to be wholly owned by foreign special interest groups, where it has a record of acting in the national interest. ”
FTFY.
“Spare us the nonsense from countries that you know nothing about.”
Proving yet again that commies are irony proof. Black Pigeon spent many years living in Japan, I think he still lives there now. He has have been reporting about Japanese culture, customs and way of life years before the Wuhan Flu. So how many years have you spent in Japan?
>> He has have been reporting about Japanese culture, customs and way of life years before the Wuhan Flu. So how many years have you spent in Japan?
Off and on for 30 years. Blackpigeon sees what he wants to see. The fact that he quotes from a ministry site without any discussion of how social obligations are more binding on Japanese than any government dictat suggests he is more interested in making a political statement than helping people understand what is going on in Japan.
“Blackpigeon sees what he wants to see. ”
Talk about projection.
In any case, Japan has 78.9% vaccination rate, Canada has 77.7% so that “asshole culture” appears to make a whole 1% difference. Are you claiming that if we had an extra 1% vaccinated, the state (that you are fellating so eagerly) would not be imposing draconian restrictions on us?
BTW did you miss the part where the Japanese government appeals for no discrimination against the unvaccinated?
And about those social obligations, are you claiming that Japanese don’t have to protect each other via vaccination? Why is that?
Don’t bother answering, you contradict yourself every second sentence. You’re a demagogue and a collectivist.
>> Are you claiming that if we had an extra 1% vaccinated
I am claiming that if Canadians/Americans has the same attitude towards mask wearing, hand washing and border control we would have similar rates. I mentioned it above but a big part of their success comes from border control measures which we can’t really implement in Canada because any policies we have will be undermined by looser US policies.
The fact that Omicron got into Japan via US bases (which allow military personal to bypass quarantine) is proof of how important border control is.
We have the similar rates. And mandates, and draconian restrictions and harassment of unvaccinated have nothing to do with it.
The march in Quebec should be happening everywhere.
It did in Toronto.
NO media broadcast it.
Was a small turnout.
Several thousand that streamed up Yonge Street.
Some are fighting back in their own way.
Very early in Japan’s post-WW2 political life–there was a Socialist Party running for office. A very brave, young man, Otoya Yamaguchi literally stabbed the leader, Inejiro Asanuma of the Japan Socialist Party with a katana (samurai sword) during a televised debate. That’s how Tommy Douglas and his ilk should have been treated…as well as Pierre T.
The Japanese, who invented Ivermectin, have also been using it.
But I am made to understand that using such a drug is what quaint, overseas countries do, not Canada which prefers to do nothing but lock everything down.
>>The Japanese, who invented Ivermectin, have also been using it.
Nonsense. Ivermectin is not approved for use in Japan to treat COVID. There is one guy who pushed last August it but he has no authority to approve its usage. The drop in cases in the last wave was entirely due to the roll out of vaccines.
Article from Japanese newspaper from last month that summarizes what is going on in Japan with Ivermectin: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/21/national/ivermectin-japan-covid19-little-evidence/
Nothing but unpublished studies and off label use by people looking for excuses to avoid vaccines.
All Jabbers like TimG need to expire with out a whimper due to the jabb
as it is after all a self inflicted impairment.
No, while TimG would make world a better place if he decided to start an old fashioned asbestos removal business, people who consciously decided to get a vaccine do not deserve to be harmed. It is, and should always be an individual decision made with no coercion.