Swine flu - Panic much?
Thank god, I am not the only one thinking that the Japanese are overreacting!
Apparently some Japanese people, especially those who live and work overseas or have ever been overseas for a longer period of time, think so, too.
The only people wearing surgical masks for protection are Japanese tourists. Some people assumed that the Japanese wearing masks must be sick, and avoided them.
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In Takashiro’s opinion, Japan is not suffering from a swine flu outbreak, it is suffering from mass hysteria.
(via Japan Probe)
Tsuyoshi Takashiro’s original blog post in Japanese is titled 「メディア・パンデミック。」 and he has some pretty interesting pictures from London’s Heathrow airport.
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Wait a sec! He was allowed to take pictures inside the airport?
WTF?!
It’s forbidden to take ANY pictures at all in god’s own country! Don’t you know that?!
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