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Wait, this is the same country that has government-enforced weight and size restrictions to ensure people are not fat? (look up metabo law)
Thanks for the info. I had no idea they had a metabo law. The law appears to be egosyntonic with their culture.
> Other nations would do well to follow Japan’s lead [...]. This policy appropriately places the responsibility for this healthcare decision with the individual or family. I'm sorry, no. This only works in countries like Japan.
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It would never work as well in America. Voluntary measures tend to work well in places where people have a reasonable trust in their government, scientific and medical authorities etc. When the government of Japan says "Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent.", they ca…
I did before the CDC waffled on mask guidance. I know why they did it, but it seriously hurt credibility for a whole lot of folks and will have long term ramifications. It became something to latch onto, and it was obvious almost immediately as it happened. If the Republicans were pro-vaccination, the numbers would change overnight. The reason they're not is because the establishment threatened the ego of Trump, and…
Our politicians in the UK are pretty damned incompetent, arrogant and nakedly self-interested. But to their credit they didn't turn much of it into a party-political exercise.
They f*cked it up in so many other ways though!
(I am now resident elsewhere and glad to be off plague island)
Wait, this is the same country that has government-enforced weight and size restrictions to ensure people are not fat? (look up metabo law)
You get weighed and measured every year as part of the medical but there are no consequences for being fat. There may be a few notes on the report if your BMI is abnormal (by Japanese standards) but these are for you alone.
> Other nations would do well to follow Japan’s lead [...]. This policy appropriately places the responsibility for this healthcare decision with the individual or family. I'm sorry, no. This only works in countries like Japan.
It's supposed to work in America, one of the freest countries in the world that prides itself in personal liberty. After all, it's a country where anyone can say just about anything and also carry a gun. (If we fix our stance on drugs, stop interfering with women's rights, and get our policing in check, we'll be pretty much on track for being a perfect place for the individualist.) The far left and far right are both…
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It's supposed to work in America, one of the freest countries in the world that prides itself in personal liberty. After all, it's a country where anyone can say just about anything and also carry a gun. (If we fix our stance on drugs, stop interfering with women's rights, and get our policing in check, we'll be pretty much on track for being a perfect place for the individualist.) The far left and far right are both…
"Far-left liberal" is an oxymoron. Liberalism is an economically right-wing, pro-capitalist ideology (this part is incompatible with leftism!), that is socially liberal (this part isn't). In the US, due to the two-party system, liberals and leftists are forced to share a party, but that doesn't mean they want the same things.
> Other nations would do well to follow Japan’s lead [...]. This policy appropriately places the responsibility for this healthcare decision with the individual or family. I'm sorry, no. This only works in countries like Japan.
How many people in Japan voluntarily used masks before Covid again?
How many cases of people protesting the use of them in Japan has there been?
Personal responsibility works well in countries where people don't think a virus has a political leaning and where people have a modicum of consideration for their fellow citizens.
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It would never work as well in America. Voluntary measures tend to work well in places where people have a reasonable trust in their government, scientific and medical authorities etc. When the government of Japan says "Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent.", they ca…
That's putting things pretty charitably for a society that pushes conformity to the point of it being fairly unhealthy. Japanese peoples' trust in govt for 2020 was actually less than that of the US's. Their vaccination rates are more likely due to their community-oriented culture rather than their trust in government officials. https://data.oecd.org/gga/trust-in-government.htm
Thanks for that link, though I find it a little bit ambiguous that the measure is trust but the question asked is "In this country, do you have confidence in… national government?", which I think is slightly different to what I was alluding to which is trust in the motives of government.
For instance I trust the motives of the health establishment in the UK, but I have considerably less confidence that I will get the best outcomes from it.
Does that make sense? I wonder if it applies here and people in Japan are not confident in the ability of their government to deliver good outcomes. Whereas in the US a significant number question the motives.
Or I could just be wrong :) Always worth entertaining that possibility.
Yes, the community-oriented culture thing seems like a great explanation.
> Other nations would do well to follow Japan’s lead In English we have the adage, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." In Japan there is the adage, "The tall nail gets pounded down." People in the US aren't declining the vaccine because they are told to. They are declining the vaccine because of misinformation and tribalism.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would never work as well in America. Voluntary measures tend to work well in places where people have a reasonable trust in their government, scientific and medical authorities etc. When the government of Japan says "Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent.", they ca…
I did before the CDC waffled on mask guidance. I know why they did it, but it seriously hurt credibility for a whole lot of folks and will have long term ramifications. It became something to latch onto, and it was obvious almost immediately as it happened. If the Republicans were pro-vaccination, the numbers would change overnight. The reason they're not is because the establishment threatened the ego of Trump, and…