FOCUS: Citizens mock Abe's plan to provide cloth face masks to fight virus

Citizens have stepped up criticism against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his plan to distribute two cloth face masks to each of the roughly 50 million households in Japan, as part of efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus.While many question the effectiveness of the initiative, some ridicule it as "Abenomask," meaning "Abe's mask" and a pun on Abenomics, his signature economic policy, and "a waste of taxpayer money."According to Kazunari Onishi, an associate professor specializing in public health at St. Luke's International University in Tokyo, the effectiveness of cloth masks is li…READ FULL ARTICLE