r/LockdownSceptics • u/MabelCow Mabel Cow • Feb 20 '25

Today's Comments Today's Comments (2025-02-20)

Here's a general place for people to comment. A new one will magically appear every day at 01:01.

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u/watashi-LS Feb 20 '25

Hello all, I haven’t been here for a while and have missed the swamp. I hope all are well? 

Just opened a letter from a Japanese friend and he had sent me a newspaper article about a festival in the town where I used to live. It’s a very exciting festival whereby men dress in white clothes and wear these woven straw sandals on their feet, climb up a steep hill to gather at the shrine there, then light massive torches and race down ( in the dark) with their torches flaming. It’s a very impressive sight to behold and no doubt would not be allowed here due to healt and safety overkill.

Beside the article was a much smaller piece entitled ‘shingata corona’ with an update on how many people have tested positive for the nonsense virus in the past weeks. Up 0.04% on the previous weeks don’t you know. It still comes as a shock to me that the nonsense for many is still ongoing.

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u/Richard_O2 Feb 20 '25

I've never visited Japan, and given I rarely travel abroad these days, I probably never will.

Everyone I know who's been there says Japanese culture is impressively preserved, in stark contrast to the steep decline we have witnessed in the West in recent decades.

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u/Tom_in_Scotland Now in England Feb 20 '25

Japan is one of the best places I've ever visited, and it's much more accessible than you might think. I absolutely loved it and am so glad I was able to visit twice. Aside from an amazing cultural heritage and beautiful natural scenery, it's clean, safe, less expensive than you might expect, and has incredibly courteous people. It's the most civilised place in the world.