Especially unsurprising

Brownstone writes about the unending “virus” measures in Japan, rigidly enforced by Japan’s precise hivemind even after the government said it was OK to stop. Aside from the uniquely Japanese conformity, muzzle mania is a tradition across the Orient. Long before the “virus”, even in the 1950s, random street pictures of Japan and China showed about 10% of the people muzzled, mostly women.