Notices by Wataru Tenkawa 天河航 (watarutenkawa@social.vivaldi.net), page 3

There are lots of Japanese people here in the Fediverse. Just not my people, which is why I still look at the other place now and then. My wish for 2023 is that more good people still stuck on Twitter find their way over here, where the living is easy and the people are kind.

@evan On any platform or this one?

Many people were “very ready to say goodbye” to precautions like masking and avoiding crowds, Althoff says, making infections more prevalent than they've been over the past few years. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 people are still dying due to COVID-19 every week, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I think we’re all very worried about what this means for our health care system walking into these next few weeks."
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Roob-5 building in Ebisu, Tokyo [OC] https://ak47.tumblr.com/post/701540245001338880

Shinjuku, Tokyo in 1978, the year I arrived and started working very near this spot. No high-fructose corn syrup users in sight.