Japanese love a good overreaction. Their prudence at the border is much better than Napolitano’s “meh, its already here”. But it is quite comical to watch the Japanese in the face of extremely unlikely disaster.
” Japanese love a good overreaction. Their prudence at the border is much better than Napolitano’s “meh, its already here”. But it is quite comical to watch the Japanese in the face of extremely unlikely disaster “
True , but goes to show how inept the USA is .
The Japanese had one of the lowest percentage death rates for a major nation during the Spanish Flu, because of their foresight.
Having been through SARS threat, Avian Flu threat, their own population hit by Sarin gas, and assorted other calamaties for 2,000 YEARS the Japanese as a nation and as a national characteristic/mindset have grown to be very alert to these kinds of pandemics and other threats—either through insularity or common sense or both. I know I would not want to watch a loved one die a slow and painful and isolated death based on a horrid disease, so I suspect all things being equal, their prudent approach is far more advisable to a “whatever” approach of waiting till things are too late, all out of a liberal, warped sense of not wanting to offend people or countries (i.e. Mexico and Mexicans).
>>Japanese love a good overreaction. Their prudence at the border is much better than Napolitano’s “meh, its already here”. But it is quite comical to watch the Japanese in the face of extremely unlikely disaster.<<
They face Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanoes, Tsunami’s, Hurricanes, and the occasional visit from Godzilla on a daily basis, they know a lot better how to take care of themselves and their country than we ever do.
The Japanese people don’t bitch after a Natural disaster that the government should have done more to hold their hands and coddled them. They just say “It couldn’t be helped” move on, rebuild and get on with their lives.
If they were like the people after Katrina, the Japanese would all be living in FEMA trailers.
I saw a program where they built this ginormous underwater lake that is empty most of the time to take in water from a river in case it floods. That is the sorta engineering we should be inspired by. And we can’t even build a wall across our borders. You can bet if Japan was sandwiched between the USA and Mexico they would have built a wall on either border that would have made the great wall of china look like a picket fence.