TOKYO (AP) — Perhaps the best that can be said about a “stay home” Twitter posted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is that it’s given bored copycats sitting at home waiting out the coronavirus ample inspiration.
Who knew that the society that invented hara-kiri would also harbor a lingering death cult.
“We must sacrifice ourselves to protect the Tōshō!”
“Many on Twitter mocked Abe with their own satirical versions of his poses, including one who did so in the nude, “stay home” messages written in marker on his bare chest and tummy, his privates camouflaged with props including a Chinese lion dance head he cuddled as if it was his pet.”
And the Lede has been buried.
Proposed headline change: Brilliant man covers body with marker and cuddles a crotch puppet in a Protest-acular.
It seems that before COVID some sort of brain eating fungus spread quite quickly amongst the Davos set.
Abe has urged companies to okay working from home. Most Japanese companies aren’t set up to do this because EVERYONE must be in the office. Japanese IT is way behind the EU or the US in this regards. One of the most annoying aspects of Japan’s work culture is that even if you are sick, you’re supposed to “gambaru!” through your illness, continue coming it thus sharing it with everyone else in the company. This is why there are probably millions of undetected infections in Japan - no one is staying home and very few people have been tested.