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INTEREST: Evangelion Announces Escape Rooms Across Japan For June

I'm just getting real tired of people applying their own perspectives to a country where they seem very unaware of the situation.

3rdImpakt wrote:

I'm just getting real tired of people applying their own perspectives to a country where they seem very unaware of the situation.

Fair enough.

Though considering no one knows when this pandemic will end, selling tickets to events in a couple months is at least deserving of constructive criticism.

Maybe, just maybe, the Japanese are doing just fine with how they're handling things. Their culture isnt very hands on, they already often wear masks if they think they're sic or it's flu season and they are very sanitary and generally have quite good hygiene. I'm just getting real tired of people applying their own perspectives to a country where they seem very unaware of the situation.

3rdImpakt wrote:

Maybe, just maybe, the Japanese are doing just fine with how they're handling things. Their culture isnt very hands on, they already often wear masks if they think they're sic or it's flu season and they are very sanitary and generally have quite good hygiene. I'm just getting real tired of people applying their own perspectives to a country where they seem very unaware of the situation.

Many Japanese people are angry at Abe for taking so long to do anything in the first place. It's not just from an "American or western perspective", it's something that is frustrating Japanese citizens. Kids have had to stay home for over a month but their parents are still expected to go to work, so childcare is a huge problem at the moment.

There's also the strange coincidence that numbers of infection started to go up as soon as the Olympics were officially postponed. Abe's a businessman first and foremost (he's skipping Aichi as part of the declaration despite its numbers being very high. why? probably because Toyota has a bunch of factories there) The Japanese media is constantly talking about the threat of a spike, as are medical professionals here.

This is very much an issue to Japanese people.

The article says that the escape rooms in Tokyo and Osaka are closed for the time being (which is where over half of the entire countries infections are). I don't see why it isn't conceivable to hold these events by June assuming things don't get horrendously worse at least in some less affected prefectures.

3rdImpakt wrote:

The article says that the escape rooms in Tokyo and Osaka are closed for the time being (which is where over half of the entire countries infections are). I don't see why it isn't conceivable to hold these events by June assuming things don't get horrendously worse at least in some less affected prefectures.

There won't be a vaccine and probably not even a treatment for COVID-19 by June. Social distancing has been shown to be the most effective plan we currently have to prevent things from getting horrendously worse. An escape room is the very definition of not social distancing, so maybe don't buy tickets yet, eh?

#sukkar wrote:

3rdImpakt wrote: Maybe, just maybe, the Japanese are doing just fine with how they're handling things. Their culture isnt very hands on, they already often wear masks if they think they're sic or it's flu season and they are very sanitary and generally have quite good hygiene. I'm just getting real tired of people applying their own perspectives to a country where they seem very unaware of the situation. Many Japanese people are angry at Abe for taking so long to do anything in the first place. It's not just from an "American or western perspective", it's something that is frustrating Japanese citizens. Kids have had to stay home for over a month but their parents are still expected to go to work, so childcare is a huge problem at the moment. There's also the strange coincidence that numbers of infection started to go up as soon as the Olympics were officially postponed. Abe's a businessman first and foremost (he's skipping Aichi as part of the declaration despite its numbers being very high. why? probably because Toyota has a bunch of factories there) The Japanese media is constantly talking about the threat of a spike, as are medical professionals here. This is very much an issue to Japanese people.

And I can assure you the majority of people talking shit on these forums aren't Japanese. The numbers worldwide spiked as soon as the Olympics were officially postponed so you can take off your tinfoil hat, it was a rough week, especially in the states. People are going to complain in any situation like this, I think they should be thankful "some issues in finding childcare" are their biggest problems considering what's going on across the world.

Again, the numbers speak for themselves. When this is all said and done Japan is going to be seen as an absolutely anomoly, a miracle compared to every other country in the world statistically speaking. Absolute worst case scenario there is a spike in cases (will still be low comparatively speaking) and a more serious quarantine will be enforced... Except it will actually work because Japanese citizens would take their government/authority very seriously. The government knows this and it's why they can walk this fine line and keep things running with such record low numbers.