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The Crisis is Over. Now What?

Posted on May 18, 2021 by bakatsundoku

This last year has been terrible in many ways. Quite honestly, I never expected to live through anything like that. And I never expected to survive it. The truly terrible thing about the Cov-SARS-2 virus (hereafter known as COVID or the coronavirus) is not that it is deadly or causes

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Uncategorized collapse, COVID, crisis, fear, lockdown, masks, society, trauma, vaccine Leave a comment

You Can’t Follow the Science

Posted on May 1, 2021 by bakatsundoku

It has become a mantra among many people in this society that they are going to “follow the science”. Anyone who says this is either ignorant or stupid. And I’m going to explain why. Science is a very misunderstood practice amongst many people in this world. They rely on it

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Vaccines

Posted on April 28, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Today I got the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. I had to drive about an hour to get it, as the distribution in my country is still a bit scattershot. They’re getting it to everyone, but the distribution network seems hit or miss – some places get some doses,

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Uncategorized choice, COVID, freedom, pfizer, vaccine, vaccine passports Leave a comment

Masks

Posted on March 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

There have been many dark things about the COVID-19 epidemic, but I have always been jealous of the fact that Japanese people wear medical masks out in public as a matter of course, and up until last year, that has never been socially acceptable in America. Now, it’s less socially

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Motteke! Sailor Fuku

Posted on June 2, 2020 by bakatsundoku

I don’t think I can describe how bad 2020 has been in so many ways, both personally and on a macro level.  But I don’t have to, because most of you have experienced it.  First a virus from China showed up and pretty much shut the world down for a

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Uncategorized Anime, coronavirus, COVID, high school, Japan, riots, sailor fuku Leave a comment

Covidity

Posted on March 18, 2020 by bakatsundoku

This blog is nearly always about topics Japanese, but not always.  Today, as with most people in the world, other things are on my mind.  And I think I’m going to post about that, today.  We can talk about Japanese some other time. The world – MY world – has

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Uncategorized coronavirus, COVID Leave a comment

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