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This has limits. During coronavirus, people have absolutely no problem buying the last package of masks.

or food

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nBcrVedkokBM2d1F8

So I have not seen that, but I am not there right now. I know my friends view on the government failures in rolling out the vaccines are … Shikata ga nai (仕方がない), no matter how privately they rage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikata_ga_nai

As a westerner I am not sure I could have stood by and put up with the hosting of the Olympics.

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