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Re:Revenge of the Suburbs by greggman3 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @07:36AM (#23591434)
It's not untrue. I've lived in Japan 14 years. I have pictures from late March of people out and about without masks. Sure, it was not uncommon to see a few people wearing masks in Asia (and Japan) before the epidemic but it was not remotely everyone at any time until the lockdown in April. Usually an average train of 200 people might have 10-20 people with masks on (before the lockdown)

Here's pictures March 24th (and one in late Jan which shows zero masks)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aUWB5YB6vBnjZk8j6

So no, it's not because Japanese wear masks. I'm not saying that doesn't help but it's clearly not enough given how crowded the trains are and how late it was until everyone started wearing them

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Re:Revenge of the Suburbs by harpratap on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:41PM (#23593107)
So how else do you explain SoftBank's testing results? The testing pool is large enough to not be an outlier, everything else was exactly the same for all their employees - their genetic pool, healthcare system, their cultural habits. The only difference was their level of alertness to personal hygiene. People working in stores were extra cautious of everything while who WFH were laid back and might have ended up slipping up more often, hence the higher cases.
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