You sound triggered Karen. 😅

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

Not a legacy but cultural

Japan love mask

Also girls there wear mask if no time to wear makeup

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

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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. 🙏💜

SARS happened long before covid and trained affected regions.

Cultural, fashion, responsibility to not get others sick cause you are, and lastly there is a bit of fear still so probably see high risk people/ health clinics still using them.

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...

$boost

These people have given many good reasons to wear a mask.

From a medical standpoint. The only place you need to wear a mask is in surgery.

When entering a hospital isolation! ward or room.

Or when working in a computer chip clean room.

Otherwise, it's really nobody's business whether you do or don't.

The problem started with mask #mandates.

Invasive medical mandates and requirements are Always! Medically and scientifically unethical.

They are Always! profoundly stupid and Ill advised.

For example, all vaccine mandates! and requirements! are criminal .

This routine criminal practice must be banned from the Free World. Especially at the WHO and UN..👺👹🤡💊💉🤑💰🥴🤮💀⚰️

#Covid #Vaccines #MassMurder #mRNA

#BrainDamage #Blindness

#Stroke #Myocarditis #ThrombocytopeniaObliterans #cancer #diabetes #MS #LiverDamage #lnfections #Hemorrhage #HeartAttack #SADS #SuddenDeath #DEATH! etc.

#DeadManWalking #DeadWomanWalking #DeadChildrenWalking #DissectingAorticAneurysm

#Fucked

#Vaccine #dope dealing and #drug pushing..👹

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.

Probably SARS or general pollution purposes

'Covid lunacy' #WTF? Lots of people died from #SARS-Cov-2, where's the lunacy in efforts trying to reduce that?

Was a thing before too. As others said makes are first of all for courtesy.

Then if I'm not wrong, they are also used to keep the skin white and clean, protecting from sun and smog.

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

Low IQ

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🤤

I was told they all just got nose jobs and trying to hide it.

I know you're revealing truth for some time, there is a microphone in your home and you're being watched