Japan is held up by mask advocates as the model for other countries to follow but their COVID-19 daily case data tells a different story. Watch the peaks in late Dec/early Jan, early April and late August/early Sept. - you will see they get WORSE with each yearly cycle. If masks were so protective and the Japanese are so smart for wearing them a lot, shouldn't their numbers be almost flat for three years? They are not. In fact, each year, the peaks get worse.