alistair Our population is exceptionally unhealthy when compared to the Japanese. Japans obesity levels are among the lowest in the world (3.2%) whereas 62% of UK adults are obese. Combine that with a society that is far more compliant, more deferential to authority, wears masks on public transport when they have colds and you’ve got four major differentials right there. And yes, I do know the Japanese better than most Brits, having visited the beautiful country four times in the past six years
Is right. We’ve also got tons of bellends saying it’s all a hoax, who won’t mask up, or at least keep physical distance in shops too. As stated before, I go to the shops twice a week (a proper supermarket shop, and an interim trip to the bakery for a restock of fresh bread), and still I see it everywhere. Asda is my closest supermarket but I won’t go in there because most of the customers are scumbags and the staff don’t give a fuck (and who could blame them when they’ve probably been threatened several times by dickhead customers?) so I travel a little further to Tesco or Morrison’s, where the staff at least try to remind people to keep some distance.
People like that (especially fit and healthy dickheads like Laurence Fox, 40 year old males and so on) would be seriously shunned in a society like Japan’s, and in China where people are less polite, they would soon have a gang around them ready to beat the shit out of them for not complying. There’s a lot wrong with those societies, but at least people seem to be saying “get through this and then we’ll talk about whether masks and distancing make any difference later”.
