<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Well, the government handling has been different John, but in general Japan has been been hands off.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 29, 2020, at 5:51 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:23 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Well, there are some differences:<br>
- masks are more than socially acceptable, they are socially required in this situation. <br></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">And the USA is the only country in the world In which wearing a virus preventing mask has become part of the culture wars, and is the only country in which the president makes a point of not setting an example and never being photographed wearing one because he thinks everything is about him and wearing such a medical mask is a political statement of disapproval of him personally.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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