Children in Japan are no longer required to wear masks at school, but again 68% of them say they will continue to wear them, while only 5% have agreed to remove them. 27% have said that they will "watch what others will do", giving signals of a heavy social conditioning started by the previous health measures. Even more depressing are the reasons they cite for not taking off their masks, as 35% said they don't want to show their faces, and 20% said they were still afraid of covid. While 7% percent said that they did it because of "social pressure from their friends". Researchers say this is a clear sign of the toll the pandemic's "faceless society" has had on Japanese children, and may be the cause of a spike in suicides among school children in the country, which reached a record in 2020 and has been surpassed again. in 2022. A teacher at a high school in Osaka described the situation in the first month of the lifting of the obligation: "We put up posters in classrooms telling students that they were no longer required to wear masks, but as a result only 10% of them took them off. Some students also wore the mask in the school group photos. Maybe it is difficult for them to give up the habit, difficult for them to suddenly take off their mask". The desperate situation of mental conditioning has made adults think of strategies to convince children to remove their masks as many children say they are "ashamed of others looking at their faces". SOURCE dailysceptic.org
