When the Japanese academic year started last month, students were no longer required to wear masks at school. But when 1,328 Japanese kids were asked whether they’d still keep masking from the beginning of the new school year, they inevitably gave depressing responses. 68% said they’d be wearing a mask anyway; just 5% said they wouldn’t. 27% said they’d wait and see what others were doing.
Even more depressing were the reasons for saying ‘Yes’. 35% said they did want to show their face; 20% that they were still worried about COVID-19. Only 7% said it was due to peer pressure.
A teacher at a high school in Osaka described the situation during the first month of optional masking.
We put up posters in the classrooms and hallways telling people that we’re not asking them to wear masks in the school, but only about 10% of the students have taken their masks off. Some students even wore masks during a photo shoot. Students were completely masked for all three years of junior-high school. You feel the pressure to conform, and it’s probably difficult for them to suddenly unmask. (emphasis added)
The clearest evidence of the mental toll that living in faceless society has had on Japanese children may be the increase in suicides of school pupils, which reached a record high in 2020 and surpassed it in 2022.
So how can adults get kids to start showing their faces again? A magazine called Ovo ran an article in which the mother of a nine year-old boy and six year-old girl asked how she could persuade her kids to unmask at school. The kids’ reasons for continued masking are “I’m embarrassed to have people look at my face” and “Everyone else is masking and I don’t want to stand out”. In other words, pointing to RCT data isn’t going to cut it.
The below advice comes from former school Headmaster Kazuo Takeshita. I quote it at length, firstly because I think it accurately describes how young Japanese children have experienced and been affected by Japan’s Covid craziness, and secondly because it doesn’t insist that masks have any benefit, unlike almost all other Japanese media articles about masks.
The Corona Crisis is at last calming down. But what about the state of mind of people living in the shadow it has cast on society, life, and the economy? It is a negative image of fear, anxiety, sadness, inconvenience, loneliness, injustice, dissatisfaction, anger, despair, frustration, anguish, anger, impatience, and depression. Moreover, interaction with the people around us has been restricted, and people have spent many days shut in.
The fact that the number of suicides among high school students and younger has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic is proof that it is difficult for adolescents and prepubescent children to live under the ‘new lifestyle’. Adults should be able to return to their pre-Corona lifestyles once things calm down, but prepubescent children feel troubled because they don’t have anything to return to.
To return to the pre-Corona situation, your son and daughter would have to return to the lifestyles they had when they were six and three, but at their ages, they’re unable to recall that.
Until around the age of seven, the ability to think and make judgements hasn’t been developed, so children acquire the ability to adapt to society through imitation. This isn’t a choice, but an uncritical and superficial ‘imitation’.
Between the ages of seven and 14, children begin to choose whom to imitate. It’s a time to listen to and put into practice the words of people you like, people you admire, people you respect, and people you trust, and build your character. Therefore, it is better to avoid environments filled with negative images and to intentionally increase the number of environments filled with positive images of hope, comfort, friendship, solidarity, security, freedom, joy and smiles. If you want your children to take off their masks, you should take yours off and show yourself living comfortably.
Even if you go to school to ask them to tell students to take off their masks, you will probably only hear the phrase from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT): “People shouldn’t be forced to wear or take off masks.” Parents have their own circumstances, and there may be some who have not raised their voices but wish schools would continue to enforce mask-wearing for a while longer.
It’s important to make children realise that friends can understand each others’ feelings better without masks. Try saying to your two children, “Maybe it’s better to take off your masks to let people know how you’re feeling”. It’s good if parents they get along well with just gently push them, not force them to unmask. Say that if you unmask, your head will be clearer, your feelings will be brighter, your energy will rise and you will be able to live happily.
Before the pandemic, children wore masks only when sick. For children now, a masks is the symbol of the time when sports days and cultural festivals could not be held and school trips had to be cancelled. From May 8th, the COVID-19 will be classified as a Category 5 infectious disease, so even if you are infected, you will not be legally required to stay at home or be quarantined, and headlines like ‘school trips are cancelled nationwide’ won’t be seen.
If you are irritated by children who can’t easily remove their masks, you will generate a negative image of unmasking. From now on, let’s create as positive an image as possible.
It may seem bizarre to people outside Japan that parents now need to tell their children it’s better to breathe properly and show their faces, but that’s the hole the Japanese public have dug themselves into due to their credulity and conformity.
And the problem is that even if they manage to climb out of the hole, they’ll start digging again as soon as the Government and media tell them to. And that’s most likely a case of ‘when’, not ‘if’.
Guy Gin writes regularly on his Substack page, Making (Covid) Waves in Japan, where this article first appeared. Subscribe here.
Stop Press: The Telegraph reports that Japanese people are signing up for “smiling lessons” as they get used to taking their masks off in public.
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We will be sold down the river basically. The very fact that this so-called treaty does not feature on the government’s parliamentary agenda proves this.
Fishy and Kneel are committing treason on a daily basis and know it. They think they are dancing with the big boys but once their usefulness has expired they will be discarded.
For all those MP’s about to lose their jobs – what a fine legacy you treasonous, gutless wonders. I hope your final years are mired in misery.
Anyway, on the plus side Parliament might as well be abolished because we don’t need 650 layabouts doing F A for their £250k per annum. Actually we will need to abolish it just to pay the WHO Tax.
Great Britain – the End.
Great comment———Britain is now a REGION of the International Community. We are now governed by technocrats we never heard of and our UN lackey politicians do not work for us anymore, they work for them.
And Rishi Sunak is Herod
Which Herod do you mean? The older one, who was persuaded by the most evil woman ever to walk the earth to launch the Massacre of the Innocents and kill Zacharias for refusing to tell Herod’s soldiers where his wife had fled with their son John the Baptist the True Christ?
Or the younger Herod, who was also persuaded by that same evil woman seven years later to send a pack of hounds into the wilderness to hunt down Elizabeth and her 7-year-old son John the Baptist and kill them both? And after Elizabeth saved her son at the cost of her own life, that same evil woman sought out the orphan boy in the wilderness, pretended to befriend him, pretended to be his substitute mother, and persuaded him to honour her and her stolen child Jesus the Forerunner, whom she had kidnapped from his mother Elizabeth and twin brother John the Baptist seven years earlier, smuggling him 7 miles away from Ein Karem where he was born, to Bethlehem, so she could claim he was born in the city of David?
Or the same Herod which that same evil woman, colluding with Herodias, Salome and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, to trick Herod into first imprisoning and then murdering John the Baptist the True Christ, which he did not want to do?
Which Herod do you mean?
Thanks Varmint
Unlike in the US, Parliament can remove the executive and replace it with another one. A big step, but one they could take if they wanted to – if they felt that we had signed up to something contrary to our interests. But they won’t take that, because it suits them not to, just as it suited them to nod through the regulations for lockdown. Contemptible.
At the same time, in the same system, the executive is selected by the majority in parliament, so it would be a case of the people who in charge voting to replace themselves with others.
Our system of democracy is basically a joke. It worked ok while those in power had a minimum sense of decency and acted with restraint. But that’s gone now. And all is left is a joke of a system.
All true.
It’s slightly odd to think of the executive replacing itself, but the opportunity is there if there is enough opposition to a “rogue” executive from MPs acting with decency and restraint.
Off-topic but this just in…They’ve found that Afghan chemical attacker. Not such good news about his victim though;
”Police hunting for chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi have recovered his body from the Thames – as it was revealed his savage assault had left a mother blind in one eye.
The Afghan-born asylum seeker was wanted for attacking his former lover and her two young children in Clapham, south London, where he doused them in alkaline.
The convicted sex offender carried out his horrific onslaught on January 31 before fleeing, having appeared to have also burnt his own face in the assault. He was last seen alive on CCTV later that evening leaning over London’s Chelsea Bridge.
Yesterday, a passing boat reported seeing a body in the water near Tower Pier – four miles from Ezedi’s last known position. Police have since recovered the remains, which they believe to be the 35-year-old’s.
Investigators said the identification was based on ‘distinctive clothing’ he was wearing at the time of the attack and the ‘property found on his body’.
His former girlfriend, a mother-of-two who was doused with a corrosive chemical thought to be oven cleaner in a harrowing attack on her and her young children, is now no longer under sedation in hospital. But friends say she has been left blinded.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13103979/Body-hunt-Clapham-chemical-attacker-Abdul-Ezedi-Met-Police-recover-body-Thames.html
You actually believe that? After the Police was criticised for a huge number of failings, including pulling up 2 dead bodies after a very short search and then stopping the search out of fear of finding more bodies, and after claiming that guy will never be found, all of a sudden they found him. Yeah, that’s just too convenient. I don’t buy it.
This is just more outrageous waste of police time and British Taxpayers’ money, lavished upon the endless Third World chaos caused by the endless Third World Invasion of the West.
If you think Parliament would have done anything about it had they had an opportunity, also think again.
I’ve always expected it to be a done deal , they’ve got Disease X ready along with all the vaccine factories so once the treaty is passed our front doors will be coming in & we Will be having our Jabs
And just in time for the US elections…
Even if they had gone through the motions of voting on it, you know it would be the usual “Tory Rebels threaten to vote against…blah, blah, blah”, then they would all cave in and vote for it, or abstain (all abstentions should be banned).
Parliament has become a total farce.
This is very much like the EU treaties which, we were told, did not reduce the authority of Parliament or the people. There would be no loss of sovereignty, said Heath and a succession of following Prime Ministers.
Yet when the EU Council of Ministers introduced a measuer the people of the UK did not like, assuming they were ever told, it tirned out we had no bilioty to stop it. It also turned out the Treaties made EU Regulations, Directives and even Opinions directly enforcable in this country.
Do not believe a word the lying scoundrels tell us.
Whereas Parliament invented all sorts of ways to prevent a proper Brexit, indeed it stopped ant Brexit at all for years, it seems oddly quiet about this transfer nof authority away from its jurisdiction.
Once again, big focus on the process and the detail of the process. Nothing about the principle so many of the people are petitioning about. Inverted logic.
If I understand correctly these IHR amendments and Pandemic treaty documents should have been placed before Parliament for scrutiny ( not debate necessarily) and this was not done. So at least a procedural problem.
i have come to the conclusion that at least the WHOs plans will be:
Costly
Non-democratic
Run a real risk of people losing individual sovereignty as governments have been proven too weak to go against supranational organisations.
The petition ‘Exit the WHO’ has now got more than 100,000 signatures…another debate in Westminster Hall?
Westminster Hall? More like a cleaners cupboard – if the janitor can find the key.
With thanks to Blue Tara, David Martin really slams the WHO in this video of a presentation he gave in September 2023 – not sure to whom though (EU?): https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/dr-david-martin-minces-no-words/. Martin starts off as follows:
“I’m done talking about COVID and I’m done talking about SARS-CoV-2. And I’m done for a very simple reason: For 110 years, we the people of the world have been lied to; where a group of a very small number of criminal, industrial conspirators decided to subordinate the entirety of the human population for the purpose of their sinister plans to enrich themselves while impoverishing and killing the rest of humanity and I’m done being polite.
“We’ve long past polite. When the words “acceptable death rate” become part of an industrial norm, we have lost the plot to humanity. And that’s not my words, those were the words of the World Health Organization and of Pfizer and of Moderna, when they were given the authorization to begin the process of killing human beings in the interest of advancing their goals.”
Martin also stated:
“And cunningly, under Article 5 Section 13, which I put on this slide, I want you to understand why I said, at its formation in 1947, when the WHO was funded and founded, it was funded and founded by people intent to commit a crime, because of their own language.
“Section 13 of Article 5 ends with the following statement: “Immunity from personal arrest or detention, blah, blah, blah, immunity from legal process of every kind.” Now, if you didn’t intend to commit a crime, why would would you need to give yourself permanent and absolute immunity from every form of prosecution – and it’s worse: even investigation for prosecution of every kind?”
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”——–The UK Parliament won’t vote on it just as there was no vote on NET ZERO. International agreements and treaties are dictating more and more of our governance. ——-We voted for none of these people and mostly do not even know who they are.
I wonder why Theresa May set such importance on obtaining a Commons vote endorsing her EU withdrawal treaty when she didn’t need one. Was she unaware of her constitutional power as head of the government? The House of Commons suffered from no such ignorance. As we saw at the time, it knew that a Commons majority has no constitutional restraints upon it. It can commandeer the order of business, and usurp the executive. Which is what it did at the time. If adjusted mechanisms for treaty making are needed to fit them for the 21st century, a Commons majority (of 1) can make them at a stroke. In our constitution, a Commons majority is sovereign.
The Politicians can sign up to all they like, I have’nt and I will resist any demands made on my body, my lifestyle and that of my family. There are more of us than them, people just have to wake up and realise that, without our consent they are powerless.
The whole point of the new Treaty is that, when Tedros or his replacement declares a new pandemic and “advises” national governments, including ours, that urgent action must be taken and what that action should be ….. those governments will automatically follow “the advice” of the so-called experts at the WHO. Those so-called experts, who are not allowed to be criticised or contradicted; who do not have to provide any evidence to support their claims or their proposed course of action and who are completely immune from any kind of legal, let alone democratic, accountability.
So yes, in theory our Government remains Sovereign. But in practice, isn’t.
I carried on with life as close as possible to normal during the Covid Tyranny, and that is exactly what I intend doing during any future scamdemics declared by the WHO.
I didn’t have the Covid jab and I won’t be taking any new concoctions either.
Once our sovereignty has been signed away, which can’t be done under Magna Carta, then any edict issued via the WHO and followed by the British government allows for “plausible deniability.”
“Not me guv, it was the WHO wot done it.”
And all on the basis of “legally binding,” although as we have seen “the rule of law” and “legally binding” have been irreparably trashed these last four years and so are worthless.
You might not have a choice soon ! That is the enormity of this upcoming WHO scenario ! Question is ? will societies follow the scaremongering & all manner of possible pressure , mental at first then probable actual physical force ( they have shown us the blueprint ) ! Is this the point where it all kicks off for real & is that what tptb actually want ??
I contacted my MP – whom I have quite a bit of respect (an Andrew Bridgen supporter!) – and was shocked when he replied to say that Parliament will have no chance to discuss and vote on such a major treaty. A done deal, sadly for all of us.
Traitors one & all
The origins of parliament are that the king needed the cooperation of local rulers in order to collect taxes to finance his household and war efforts. A secondary function was to hold court (presided by the king) to pass judgements about property and other disputes according to what was regarded as the law of the land. And this arrangement came into being because medieval kings lacked the military power to rule autocratically throughout the realm. That doesn’t eo ipso make parliament a more legitimate body for governing citizens of the realm than the monarch himself. And neither does MPs have been elected by some random, large subset of the legally present¹ population.
In absence of justification by reference to some divine being, parliamentary government is nothing but enforced obedience by threat of violence, either. It’s exactly as legitimate (or illegitmate) as the king or some local mob grande doing the same.
¹ The weird UK voting laws don’t require legal residence, just legal presence and proper pedigree.