Teaching English, since July '22--and finding a number of local people who appreciate her gardening talents (forced upon her from toddlerdom by her mother)
Then she has not seen all the destruction caused by the covid mitigation measures. I had already lost over 1/3 of my income by then. Actually, by that time closer to half. A great many of the businesses I used to frequent and many I did not were already out of business by then too. Additionally, I would have been teaching all but one of my remaining classes all online for 2 and half years by then.
Oct. 2022 was the first matsuri (festival) at my cities main shrine since the same month of 2019. There were some tourists in the crowd who thoroughly enjoyed it. They could not know that in order to have the matsuri major changes had to be made that greatly finished what it was up to 2019. The big one that all could appreciate if they had been to a matsuri before was the complete absence of child participants. Their participation was banned. Other issues require insider knowledge to recognize. For many of the locals, it has been destroyed. Participation in last years matsuri around the city was quite different that just the year before. At least one matsuri group disbanded, one of its chief patrons having gone out of business the previous year was one factor.
I am glad she is loving her time in Japan and hope she continues to do so. However, the Japan she knows is not the Japan that existed before the panic.
Took my son to a test for his cram school yesterday. Hundreds and hundreds of examinees. including my son, I counted 6 unmasked children out of the hundreds I saw. Four of these were observed outside the test site’s (a college) gate and one or mare may have donned a mask upon enter the grounds of the building where the test was held. That none of the mask wearers would have taken theirs off is a certain. My son told me that he alone was the only unmasked test taker out of the approximately 120 in the room he tested in.
Is your daughter having to wear a mask in her classes? My med school and nursing school require them. I do not and fear losing this job too each time I go to the campus. I was at one time instructed by medical professionals to wear a mask in my own home for online classes for their school. I refused and was given special permission from the school to teach online classes from my own home bare faced. I hope your daughter has successfully evades such madness.
Prolonged masking leads to a lot of health problems. No matter, a large porting of the population of Japan, including foreign residents are still wearing masks. May 8th 2023 was when the Japanese government finally rescinded its recommendation to mask, yet 8 months later and roughly half still are wearing them.
Short answer, mad maskers are going to mask madly.
As a tourist or living here?
Teaching English, since July '22--and finding a number of local people who appreciate her gardening talents (forced upon her from toddlerdom by her mother)
Then she has not seen all the destruction caused by the covid mitigation measures. I had already lost over 1/3 of my income by then. Actually, by that time closer to half. A great many of the businesses I used to frequent and many I did not were already out of business by then too. Additionally, I would have been teaching all but one of my remaining classes all online for 2 and half years by then.
Oct. 2022 was the first matsuri (festival) at my cities main shrine since the same month of 2019. There were some tourists in the crowd who thoroughly enjoyed it. They could not know that in order to have the matsuri major changes had to be made that greatly finished what it was up to 2019. The big one that all could appreciate if they had been to a matsuri before was the complete absence of child participants. Their participation was banned. Other issues require insider knowledge to recognize. For many of the locals, it has been destroyed. Participation in last years matsuri around the city was quite different that just the year before. At least one matsuri group disbanded, one of its chief patrons having gone out of business the previous year was one factor.
I am glad she is loving her time in Japan and hope she continues to do so. However, the Japan she knows is not the Japan that existed before the panic.
Took my son to a test for his cram school yesterday. Hundreds and hundreds of examinees. including my son, I counted 6 unmasked children out of the hundreds I saw. Four of these were observed outside the test site’s (a college) gate and one or mare may have donned a mask upon enter the grounds of the building where the test was held. That none of the mask wearers would have taken theirs off is a certain. My son told me that he alone was the only unmasked test taker out of the approximately 120 in the room he tested in.
Is your daughter having to wear a mask in her classes? My med school and nursing school require them. I do not and fear losing this job too each time I go to the campus. I was at one time instructed by medical professionals to wear a mask in my own home for online classes for their school. I refused and was given special permission from the school to teach online classes from my own home bare faced. I hope your daughter has successfully evades such madness.
Why was anyone masked? Prolonged exposure can lead to lung cancer.
Prolonged masking leads to a lot of health problems. No matter, a large porting of the population of Japan, including foreign residents are still wearing masks. May 8th 2023 was when the Japanese government finally rescinded its recommendation to mask, yet 8 months later and roughly half still are wearing them.
Short answer, mad maskers are going to mask madly.
Thank you so much for this long and informative reply. Would you permit me to send it to my daughter?
Sure. Or, you could follow Moonspinner’s advice.
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