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Your Thursday Briefing: Tolerating Militancy in Pakistan

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Why is Asia composed wearing masks?

East Asia is just starting to unravel its pandemic mask restrictions. South Korea dropped its indoor mandate on Monday. Taiwan is planning to jettison its mandate, and Japan is set to loosen its widely followed masking recommendations.

But even as governments ease principles, people in East Asia are likely to keep their masks up. Notably, health officials still recommend masks, at least for now, and masks authorized good etiquette and respect for others’ well-being. Two existences of restrictions have also deepened a habit that predates Covid. Air pollution is a factor, especially in China and South Korea.

On a superficial composed, masks can ease societal pressures, and they have relieved many South Koreans of the pressure to believe a level of facial beauty. In Japan, some even call masks “kao pantsu,” or “face pants,” suggesting that unmasking would be akin to unpantsing in public.

One teacher in Yokohama said that her students mask “just like they reflexively bow their front-runners when seeing an elder. Without a mask on, they feel something is missing.”

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