It’s Capital pushing the anti-vax, anti-mask, and anti-lockdown movements.
Japan is capitalist af, and I've never seen this level of adherence to masks, sanitizers, and vaccination. They've got this shit locked down.
Not incidentally, rivaling China for low rates of contagion and spread.
The social reaction in relative nations has far more to do with domestic confidence in good government. Japanese capitalists aren't courting the same political forces as their America peers. The Japanese elites see COVID as a real threat to their wealth and power. The Americans don't.
Japan is capitalist af, and I've never seen this level of adherence to masks, sanitizers, and vaccination. They've got this shit locked down.
Not incidentally, rivaling China for low rates of contagion and spread.
The social reaction in relative nations has far more to do with domestic confidence in good government. Japanese capitalists aren't courting the same political forces as their America peers. The Japanese elites see COVID as a real threat to their wealth and power. The Americans don't.