Meanwhile Japanese people, for all their faults, put a fucking mask on when they get a cold because that's seen as a decent thing to do.
Yes, but they're still expected to come into work even when they're ready to fall over.
Sounds like America then
If you think America is bad, you really need to look more into Japanese Black Companies. They really take the cake on toxic work cultural. Imagine being socially obligated to get black out drunk with your boss.
'If you think America is bad' is wholly unnecessary when you consider that socialized healthcare hardly exists, public education is a living corpse of severely underpaid teachers, mass shootings (I've been in one), mandatory cost of car ownership, and so many other fucked up things.
I'm not saying that Japan is a good place to live, because it has a myriad of it's own problems and I personally wouldn't want to live there. I just think we should give people some credit for the shit Americans put up with too.
True story: Stalin did this every night with his inner circle. Attendance was mandatory assuming you wanted to live.
Behind the bastards did a great episode on it.
hmmm. Death or all your coworkers slightly judging you? White collar work sounds annoying.
If it weren't for the work culture, I would love to live in Japan.
And the racism
That's true, they hate us*.
*Anyone that isn't Japanese
My boyfriend is in nursing school, and they have some sort of program where you can move there and get a house for cheap, if not free. I'm sure they're not great houses and would need some work done, but still a great deal. We considered it for a hot minute...
But then I started thinking about that stuff, and did some more research into what it's like to move there. Some really awesome aspects to it, but I think we are gonna pass.
That is the decent thing to do. Well the most decent thing is to isolate yourself when you're sick.
It's still surprising to me that so few after 4 years of this still do not understand the airborne nature of respiratory illnesses especially Rona with all that has gone on.
Then again I might be expecting too much from people...
"Yes, if Fox News says Biden opposes people jumping off of bridges."
I seriously wonder how many MAGA morons would suffocate themselves if Biden (or better, Obama) came out as pro-oxygen.
If all my friends jumped off a bridge, there's probably a good reason. I keep pretty intelligent friends. The bridge is probably collapsing or some shit. Wear a fuckin mask tho.
The FOMO would be too much. I'd jump
This actually came up recently. Was playing Battlefield and saw all my teammates jump off the bridge we were on, so I just jumped off with them.
As I parachuted down I saw the helicopter crashing where we’d just been standing. It made me laugh realizing I’d just lived out that little saying.
Huh? "maskless again"? Are there places that still have mask mandates?
A mask mandate was recently reinstated for New York City's public hospitals due to an increase in flu/COVID/RSV infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently warned that respiratory illnesses are on the rise across the country. Just before Christmas, national COVID-19 hospitalizations jumped 17% in one week.
"I think that's a major reason why we're seeing this rise in not only cases, but also hospitalizations. Because we've just had Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, so a lot of people are gathering from all over the country," Roy told NY1.
Pretty ridiculous that they're not permanent in hospitals
Agreed!
Some places have been encouraging but not mandating indoor masks due to the usual uptick in winter for COVID and flu
I think one of the better cultural shifts, at least in the US, to come from the pandemic is the number of people wearing masks if they feel even slightly ill and have to go out in public. Better yet, a number of businesses seem to actually mean it when they tell employees to stay home if they're sick, rather than perversly commending those who come into the workplace when they are quite obviously suffering and contagious.
Get vaccinated, wear a mask if you feel ill, you just want to, or you'll be visiting someone at high risk indoors. That said, and I know I will lose most of you here, it doesn't seem necessary for the general populace, when they're not ill, to follow masking guidelines when in public. I'm not a medical professional, so I simply follow CDC guidelines. To my knowledge, there isn't a mask recommendatiom for the general populace at this time.
Purplely anecdotal, but since our hospital system is no longer critically overburdened, and folks are mostly vaccinated, it has been my observation that the negative impact on people's mental health, that the isolation of masking and social distancing induces, is a greater risk to the health of the general public than Covid and its variants. If you choose to take additional precautions, that is absolutely your perogative and you should feel empowered to do so. It'd be great if we could have it all, but people have to do what's right for them to make it through another day.
I got banned from Lemmy.world for saying that the main purpose of the masks were to protect others from you instead of protecting you from others.
It's like everyone forgot that masks were part of the "stop the spread" campaign.
Partially correct -- cloth masks protect others, but an N95 actually protects the wearer.
… as well. Right?
We lived in a small town with the bridge being one of the best spots to jump off of into the lake. So after the first time our parents used that saying we pointed that out and they never did it again hahaha.
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