Peer pressure is one hell of a double edged sword there.
Fuck the nytimes, stop giving it free clicks
More like not testing or reporting deaths due to covid accurately. But hey, at least they keep the gaijin out.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/world/asia/japan-covid.html) reduced by 93%. (I’m a bot) ***** > Social conformity – and a fear of public shaming that is instilled from the youngest ages – has been a key ingredient in Japan's relative success in Covid prevention, experts say.
> In Japan, "If you tell people to look right, they will all look right," said Kazunari Onishi, an associate professor of public health at St. Luke's International University in Tokyo.
> During the pandemic, politicians tapped "Into this collective idea of self-restraint for the public good," said James Wright, an anthropologist at the Alan Turing Institute in London who has studied Japan's coronavirus response.
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Peer pressure is one hell of a double edged sword there.
Fuck the nytimes, stop giving it free clicks
More like not testing or reporting deaths due to covid accurately. But hey, at least they keep the gaijin out.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/world/asia/japan-covid.html) reduced by 93%. (I’m a bot)
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> Social conformity – and a fear of public shaming that is instilled from the youngest ages – has been a key ingredient in Japan's relative success in Covid prevention, experts say.
> In Japan, "If you tell people to look right, they will all look right," said Kazunari Onishi, an associate professor of public health at St. Luke's International University in Tokyo.
> During the pandemic, politicians tapped "Into this collective idea of self-restraint for the public good," said James Wright, an anthropologist at the Alan Turing Institute in London who has studied Japan's coronavirus response.
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