What I’m also curious about is what could be causing the percentage of young people/children who suffer from hay fever to grow. Kids today have a higher chance at suffering from it than previous generations.
Inb4 big pharma lobbies the government to stop cutting down trees so they can keep selling hayfever meds to the masses.
They had a news article on TV that was talking about this some weeks ago. There was a cascading list of issues encountered trying to tackle the pollen issue:
1. They’re trying to replace the trees, as they are cut, with a variety that produces far less pollen. (Likely none of us will be alive by the time this replacement program actually has any effect, because such a program takes decades.)
2. The planted saplings are frequently obliterated by wild deer munching on them.
3. It turns into a war against the rapidly exploding deer population: erecting fences, setting traps, and so on.
4. You can’t just have a deer cull like you would have in the United States, dudes charging into the underbrush with rifles, visions of venison sausages dancing in their heads. There are too few licensed hunters to make such a cull effective, so the deer continue to proliferate, and eat all the low-pollen saplings.
5. ***{sneezing fit}***
So disgusting the amount of snorters on trains. Just revolting.
I’m jealous of those people only allergic to cedar pollen. I’m allergic to like… Everything. Including sakura.
It’s hell. I wasn’t affected by hay fever at all in Australia, but from my first March here in 2005, I’ve been suffering ever since. I now suffer from hay fever the rare time I go home.
If they paid me enough, I’d work to help them.
Been here nearly 3 decades, first decade I was completely fine. After that it started. They caused this by cutting down all the natural forests and planting these sugi and hinoki trees for construction wood, but then it got cheaper to import wood from China. Now you have too many sugi and hinoki trees which isnt natural. They really should replace those trees with what used to grow there before, but I guess its too expensive. All we can do is escape Japan for a month or take meds and gaman. At home at least, we use air filters that clean out every room in the house.
I fucking hate this time of the year.
I suspect the national dip in productivity caused by millions of people suffering from hayfever outweighs the benefits of forestry… I’d like someone smarter than me to actually calculate this with the available data though.
I’m certainly about 30% less productive and a grumpy fuck each March because of this.
What type of medicine is easily available in Japan in order to relieve the symptoms of hay fever? Are there also protectivr nasal sprays like Bentrio available?
Crisis?
> But with a dwindling forestry workforce and much forest land tied to unknown or untraceable owners, it remains uncertain whether these efforts can produce the intended results.
Off-topic but this reminds me of a friend who’s quite senior in a major logging company, and then went on to start a sustainable cedar business using his family’s old land. We caught up recently and shouted each other a few rounds of Nikorashikas. There’s actually some really cool stuff happening in Japan in that space.
As for hay fever… I’ll stay out of that one. I’ve got some probably unpopular takes, but I’ll leave it there 😅
Those Randy trees! Just ejaculating everywhere!
Every time I come to Japan in March it feels like I have sand in my eyes until I leave. It’s horrible.
In the US pollen causes a lot of sinus related allergy issues for me, but never eyes. Cedar pollen is something else.
Yet another policy debacle. And the forests are unhealthy as hell themselves, no sunlight, full of leeches ….great
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Let’s fever!!🤧🤧🌳🌳🌳
It’s a lesson in gaman.
What I’m also curious about is what could be causing the percentage of young people/children who suffer from hay fever to grow. Kids today have a higher chance at suffering from it than previous generations.
Inb4 big pharma lobbies the government to stop cutting down trees so they can keep selling hayfever meds to the masses.
They had a news article on TV that was talking about this some weeks ago. There was a cascading list of issues encountered trying to tackle the pollen issue:
1. They’re trying to replace the trees, as they are cut, with a variety that produces far less pollen. (Likely none of us will be alive by the time this replacement program actually has any effect, because such a program takes decades.)
2. The planted saplings are frequently obliterated by wild deer munching on them.
3. It turns into a war against the rapidly exploding deer population: erecting fences, setting traps, and so on.
4. You can’t just have a deer cull like you would have in the United States, dudes charging into the underbrush with rifles, visions of venison sausages dancing in their heads. There are too few licensed hunters to make such a cull effective, so the deer continue to proliferate, and eat all the low-pollen saplings.
5. ***{sneezing fit}***
So disgusting the amount of snorters on trains. Just revolting.
I’m jealous of those people only allergic to cedar pollen. I’m allergic to like… Everything. Including sakura.
It’s hell. I wasn’t affected by hay fever at all in Australia, but from my first March here in 2005, I’ve been suffering ever since. I now suffer from hay fever the rare time I go home.
If they paid me enough, I’d work to help them.
Been here nearly 3 decades, first decade I was completely fine. After that it started. They caused this by cutting down all the natural forests and planting these sugi and hinoki trees for construction wood, but then it got cheaper to import wood from China. Now you have too many sugi and hinoki trees which isnt natural. They really should replace those trees with what used to grow there before, but I guess its too expensive. All we can do is escape Japan for a month or take meds and gaman. At home at least, we use air filters that clean out every room in the house.
I fucking hate this time of the year.
I suspect the national dip in productivity caused by millions of people suffering from hayfever outweighs the benefits of forestry… I’d like someone smarter than me to actually calculate this with the available data though.
I’m certainly about 30% less productive and a grumpy fuck each March because of this.
What type of medicine is easily available in Japan in order to relieve the symptoms of hay fever? Are there also protectivr nasal sprays like Bentrio available?
Crisis?
> But with a dwindling forestry workforce and much forest land tied to unknown or untraceable owners, it remains uncertain whether these efforts can produce the intended results.
Off-topic but this reminds me of a friend who’s quite senior in a major logging company, and then went on to start a sustainable cedar business using his family’s old land. We caught up recently and shouted each other a few rounds of Nikorashikas. There’s actually some really cool stuff happening in Japan in that space.
As for hay fever… I’ll stay out of that one. I’ve got some probably unpopular takes, but I’ll leave it there 😅
Those Randy trees! Just ejaculating everywhere!
Every time I come to Japan in March it feels like I have sand in my eyes until I leave. It’s horrible.
In the US pollen causes a lot of sinus related allergy issues for me, but never eyes. Cedar pollen is something else.
Yet another policy debacle. And the forests are unhealthy as hell themselves, no sunlight, full of leeches ….great
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