Serene state of mind

　　

1. Authorities began to say that they entrust to each individuals' judgement whether or not to wear face mask?
How many of our nation use their own judgement in decision-making?
After churning out nations that follow the crowd blindly by education cracking down on individual judgement, media taking the lead in trend to have a great regard for public image than scientific fact, disrupting society by concealing essential information for the sake of Panjandrums and their hungers-on's profits, and so on -the list may be a mile long, what does our state expect?
-Me? In the middle of 2010s, I began to suffer from chronicle nasal disease.
Since then, I set a kind of rule of my own when or where to wear mask:
Outside in winter, season of yellow sand that cause allergy, medical facilities, overcooled places, crowded streets where I need to protect myself against streetsmokers, and public transportation.
Although now I wear mask except for when I'm alone in my place, because I have a risk of increase in severity if I'm infected,
I'll just get back to the custom when I developed asthma before the year of Pandemic.

2. Since price runup became nationwide problem, pensioners demand for increasing annuity to meet price increase.
However... to explain simplistically, in case the rise of wage level is smaller than the rise of price level, the amount of amount of pension is set in response to the wage level change.
Thus, as is pointed out, under the situation that national wage keeps declining, amount of pension is also reduced as a result.
　Do those pensioners understand this reality?
　　Incidentally, if the wage rise is higher than price rise, the amount of pension is set depending on wage for pensioners under sixty-eight, and depending on price for ages sixty-eight and up.
Therefore, to sum it up easily, in order to receive pension to meet prices, wage level needs to exceed the price level.
Actually, things are not so simple due to Macroeconomic slide mechanism, though.
Reportedly, next fiscal year, the amount of pension is raised a bit from this fiscal year, but due to Macroeconomic slide mechanism, pension shrinks substantially.
Today, I put aside additional subvention for pensioners.

3. I seldom eat processed meat such as ham, bacon and sausage.
Mainly in order to avoid nitrate-cured food.
　So when I buy those food, I select additive-free products.
　　But somehow, those products tend to be more expensive than ones with artificial colors.
I suppose that manufactures' side assume the more vivid those cured meat are, the more it looks delicious and attractive to consumers.
At the same time, I imagine that even if they use artificial coloring agents in ham used for sandwiches and fried ham cutlets, the part seen from outside is too small to appeal how it looks delicious.

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