| Das japanische Erfolgsrezept: Gruppenzwang! |  |
Kommt mir vor wie unser genaues Gegenteil - hier wird man längst eher schief angeschaut, wenn man ohne ausdrückliche Pflicht trotzdem eine Maske trägt:
"Japan’s Covid death rate, just one-twelfth of that in the United States, is the lowest among the world’s wealthiest nations. With the world’s third-largest economy and 11th-largest populace, Japan also tops global rankings in vaccination and has consistently had one of the globe’s lowest infection rates.
Although no government authority has ever mandated masks or vaccinations or instituted lockdowns or mass surveillance, Japan’s residents have largely evaded the worst ravages of the virus. Instead, in many ways, Japan let peer pressure do a lot of the work.
Even now, as average daily cases have fallen to just 12 per 100,000 residents — about a third of the average in the United States — a government survey in May found that close to 80 percent of people working in offices or enrolled in school wear masks and about 90 percent do so when using public transit. Movie theaters, sports stadiums and shopping malls continue to request that visitors wear masks, and for the most part, people comply."
Und meine Lieblingsstelle im Artikel:
"The term “face pants” has become a buzzword, implying that dropping a mask would be as embarrassing as taking off one’s underwear in public."
[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/world/asia/japan-covid.html]
Normalerweise mag ich unsere liberale Schnulliwulli-Einstellung vielen Regeln und Traditionen gegenüber ja deutlich mehr als so ein zuweilen unmenschliches Stock-im-Arsch-Gehabe.
Aber wenn es konkret darum geht, soziales Verhalten während einer Pandemie von seinen Mitmenschen einzufordern? Da unterschreibe ich so einen Gruppenzwang liebend gerne.