>We will end up thanking the Nips for a lot.
Concur. They’re already taking significant steps to build Asia-Pacific alliances and re-arming their military. They know what’s on the horizon and there’s no way they’re going to allow Japanese national interests to be compromised.
The Staebler family was in the US in the 19th century. America had legions of Nazi sympathizers in the ‘30s, but they are to be found in the North Eastern “aristocracy.”
As expected, given the refusal of the biggest name journals to publish the results. If the study had been extended, it’s likely that masks would have been shown to be counterproductive - responsible for a range of secondary infections.
Understanding your enemy as he truly is is the cardinal rule of warfare. Projection of one’s own ethical compass on to an enemy is a guarantee of defeat. In fact, it’s safer practice to assume that the enemy is more morally depraved than you believe him to be.
Deuteronomy 7 tells you everything.