Japan reports 18,606 new coronavirus cases

Currently traveling outside of Japan and I can tell you the rest of the world has moved on. Not one foreigner (even the cabin crew) wore masks on the plane, and no announcements regarding Covid were made at all. So good to see! So good to feel "normal" again.

Come on Japan, let it go already.

Start living like normal human beings already.

Wow! That's double-standards. Didn't Hackman; just say in another thread that (quote) "A person is who he or she is -- not what he or she does."

March 13th is coming fast. What's the rush? You can take your mask off anytime.

Currently traveling outside of Japan and I can tell you the rest of the world has moved on. 

Unfortunately it hasn't. In Bangkok on business and masks everywhere.

Going down .!. .!. .!. .!.

Unfortunately it hasn't. In Bangkok on business and masks everywhere.

Was in Bangkok last month and while there were masks “everywhere” only 50% or less of the people were wearing them. Japan won’t go to only 50% on March 13, nor May 8, but the process of “moving on” means it needs to be personal choice rather than expected, like Thailand has become.

Was in Bangkok last month and while there were masks “everywhere” only 50% or less of the people were wearing them.

No. 50% or less of the foreigners yes.

So, of the 141 deaths, how many were actually of covid and not simply with covid?

No. 50% or less of the foreigners yes.

um… not sure where you were, but foreigner heavy areas were nearly 100% without a mask. The areas with no other foreigners were around 50%

Anywhere outside the heavy tourist areas (aka boozing districts) like lower Sukhumvit the Thais are nearly 100% masked.