zulander comments

So your argument is that when politicians constradict scientist and doctors based on no evidence presented by people without names nor credentials people should believe the politicians and not the experts?

Well the case for masks (put forward as useful, without evidence) was as such and you probably had no problem with that. The latest cochrane review has shown the policy to be of no help.

There were plenty of qualified medical professionals, from the start, for example Brett Weinstien, an evolutionary biologist, including others who took a look at the virus and said it looked most likely to be man-made.

Also consider the fact that no animal coronavirus has been identified that is sufficiently similar to have served as the direct progenitor for covid 19.

Science is not a democracy btw.

Really? Where did you hear that? I haven't heard a consensus on this matter anywhere.

Do you check the news?

"The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress."

WSJ

"Demonstrated as false"

Yet now it seems to be that a lab leak is most likely. Quelle Surprise. What changed?

"A disease more likely to come from nature" - this statement is backed by, what exactly?

Unless it is meant, most likely from nature in a wet market near a lab doing work on an identical virus? for previous SARS outbreaks, there was always evidence in nature, yet there was "no animal coronavirus  identified that is sufficiently similar to have served as the direct progenitor for covid 19". I think that is indeed what they call science.

Noone said those deaths would happen anyway - covid did kill people, we know this. We also know the profile that such people were from, enough to label them "high risk".

If only some people had said from the start that even though its most likely leaked from a lab, that the fatality rate for the avg person is low enough to not merit a pandemic and that only at risk groups should get vaccinated.........

I didn't. The article did. Interesting you get touchy about the article reporting the facts.

the article reports two things (among others).

You said that this was “interesting”- would this be because you believe in some link/venn overlap between behaving arguably unreasonably wrt to photographs, and refusing to wear masks? (To which the article makes no implicit allusion)

It’s definitely a sexist industry in Asia. Maybe they should have the option of wearing pantsuits

if it is sexist they should fix it by making sure 50% of the staff are male.

panysuit is the equivalent of solving sexism by having men wear skirts.

Along with illicit pictures, it is interesting that other risky behaviours cited by them is people "deliberately" not wearing a mask despite antivirus rules.

its also interesting that you feel the need to conflate these. Although how risky such behavoir is, has been shown to be negligible (Cochrane report).

however I digress.

What is the problem with normal photos of Airhostesses ?

Seems like a path of most resistance.

Wouldnt it have been easier to stick a handwitten sign in romaji " Nikuman" or "This is Nikuman" with an arrow ?

As long as everyone, especially students are free to mask or not, and not be forced into either by some weird kind of societal pressure. Very much their body their choice.

(which ironically was exactly what mask-skeptics had been saying yet were criticised for the whole time)

It is pollen season, so expect to see more than "usual", but hopefully we can finally end the facade.

very different from the Northern Ireland anti-terrorist adds of the 90s.

Having an English man ,play Marlowe is like having an American play Lord Macbeth,Powers Boothe role cannot be duplicated

Liam Neeson is most certainly not English.

Irish, Northern Irish, British at a stretch. Extremely not english.

^ sorry yes so I 100% agree

Chances are, there are far fewer women than men who even WANT a position like this

Ask a room full of teenagers who wants to be a Central Bank governer; you would notice the girls significantly outnumbered among those who would want to.

Clearly we can see from the stats, grumpiness increases with age.

"your honor I saw him drop the litter and I went to pick it up so fast, must have accidentally bumped in the stomach. A couple times. Well I think we can all agree it was an accident that could have been prevented by not littering"

Western names came from the bible or occupations.

Which can also be fascinating and interesting. Not devoid of meaning at all.

Also some names can be last names or christian names.

I would say both styles can be fascinating.

Western names lack the meanings given to Japanese names which are fascinating

Wallace Origin and Meaning

The name Wallace is both a boy's name and a girl's name of Scottish, English origin meaning "foreigner, stranger".

Beg to differ.

its one of the Japan Commandements

Thou shalt not stand out.

i dont think it was lack of convenience that was holding back customers.

new headline "Suddenly all the foliage in Soho is dying"

Well iam sorry but Statistically Japan isn't 'THE' safest place in the world !

What other country with any significant population is "safer"?

Another day, another violent act of male aggression against a female victim in ‘safety’ Japan.

Yes, still the safest place statistically in the world. If I had to choose my wife to walk alone anywhere in the world, I would chose Japan.

The reason this is making news is that it isnt common.

 annual contribution to the UK economy was £1.76bn in 2017."

Funeral + Coronation total cost you estimate approx 2b. Lets say 3bn. So less than 2yrs of the estimated contribution by the monarch hostile consultant estimate standards. Avg that over afew decades, well worth it.

However your assertion was that no amount of money is worth the freedom you are made to sacrifice for the monarchy - please let us know what these are.

No amount of tourist profits are worth the freedoms we have to give up.

What freedoms of yours are the British Monarchy impinging on ?

More than half of these voters are women.

I can guarantee, it was not a man who asked about lipstick and accessories.

Theres that New World Order thing again, you know, the one that doesnt exist.

Keep getting those jabs and mask up, folks! Oh and to restaurants that have removed partitions: please replace them prompty!

The idea of the jabs was to stop severe symptoms; none of them have been tested or even shown to reduce transmission.

Similarly, masking hasnt proven anywhere to do much at all to reduce transmission. The rest of the world is unmasked and not dropping like flies.

All the panic and overreaction is a huge net negative on society. Ive seen back home how much impact the lockdowns have had on my own mothers cognitive decline (76 yrs old at the beginning of covid). Enough is enough. Stop with the panic and hyperbole and get on with your lives.

Stop making a mountain out of a mole hill. 

We have yet to hear of anyone being refused entry/service etc for wearing masks, while the opposite is true. So I think you will find the mountain makers from mole-hills are the mask-zealots, and now they are gaslighting anyone who voices an anti-mask opinion as "making a big deal" about it.

At least five people died after a mob whipped up by Trump's false claims of a stolen election

Really? Even the edited wiki of this doesnt really support the 'narrative', citing "three died of natural causes".

Sounds like we are trying to stretch the truth for hyperbole.

Nothing like a slightly misleading headline.

Both procedures are reversable.

The home is optional. Who is going to fund any potential offsprings care ?

However, as a precedent, it does make me somewhat uncomfortable.