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As you step onto Japanese soil, you see hordes of people wearing a face mask, with eyes that could kill. Are they terrorists out to take over the world? Or is it the plague??

Face Masks

I only wish people here in America were as considerate when it comes to preventing the spread of germs. ugh. People send their kids to school with fevers, runny noses and coughs. They *might* cover their coughs with their hands only to use those germy hands to open the doors and touch communal things.

When I'm sick, I stay in. But when I have a lingering cough, I wish I could wear a mask here without looking like a crazy person.

That's how kids over in America get their strong resistance towards germs later on in life ;p