EzraS wrote:
The claim as I understood it is that most people in Asian countries commonly wear masks.
No one ever said "most people in Asian countries wear masks" before the COVID-19. If you have to get into the number game, it simply shows that you have never been to East Asia, period. I have been there 3 times in the previous 3 years, I don't need numbers, I don't need pictures, I don't even need Google. I see them with my own eyes. No one on earth ever said "most people in Asian countries wear masks." (Before COVID-19). They simply say "people in Asian countries wear masks" or "Why do so many Asians wear mask in their countries?" The "many" there is relative, is in comparison with Western countries, where basically zero person wears a mask. I am sorry for your lack of international traveling experience. But that's how people describe what they see in East Asia. And it's not just me, anyone that have ever set their foot in East Asia say the same thing I say. The fact that you have to argue about it, immediately shows you have never been there.
Take a look for yourself with a Google search, and see how many people talk about Japanese wearing masks:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Japanese+custom+of+wearing+masks&oq=Japanese+custom+of+wearing+masksLet's take for example this article:
https://blog.gaijinpot.com/the-mask-behind-the-mask-culture-in-japan/Quote:
For the last two years, I’ve visited my nearby Family Mart to pick up bottled water and my other convenience store needs. I often pay the same worker, but I’ve never seen his face — only his eyes and forehead.
For the last year, I’ve taught at a university in Tokyo. In that time, I’ve had several students who wore white masks every single day of class. Never once did they remove it.
A lot has been written regarding mask use in Japan, but it was when I heard that a few employers were beginning to require their workers to wear the mask that I started to feel this should be addressed. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me, however, was when I started seeing different colors and designs. Seeing these face coverings — and what seems to be an over-saturation of their use — upset me at first. Simply because — while we all have our own existential love-hate relationship with the human race — I still want to like people and when interacting with someone, seeing their entire face helps me measure how they feel about me, and, well, how they feel about themselves, too. ...
You do have learning disability and you know it and you admit it. It takes forever for you to understand even the most basic things that other people don't get confused about. No one else misunderstood what I have written. It's you and only you.
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21 Mar 2020, 6:54 pm
