6 Other Sanitary Measures Conclusion More importantly than masks, however, is washing hands and sanitizing them often to make sure that germs are not passed from our hands to our face. During this period, hand sanitizers and alcohol wipes were found all over the place, and I was used to spraying alcohol on my hands, sometimes a little too often. Nowadays, although finding hand sanitizers has become a lot harder than during the pandemic, in Japan we still see hand sanitizers placed in entrances of many buildings. On top of that, a lot of Japanese people have become a lot more conscious towards staying clean, and carrying small portable hand sanitizers has become a very common practice. In the U.S. however, it is very hard to come by hand sanitizer dispensers out in public. Instead, we will have to carry hand sanitizers ourselves if we want to stay clean on the go. Furthermore, although the sample size is not very large, from my observations at Grinnell College, the proportion of people who wash their hands before going to the dining hall to eat was very small, and it feels close to only 10%. That seems to me the pandemic is a thing of the past, and people have gone back to living their lives as they did before the pandemic.I firmly believe that the U.S. more or less has entirely reverted back to their living styles before the pandemic in regard to their sanitary measures, whereas Japan has absorbed and kept many habits from this pandemic, such as continuing to use masks frequently and maintaining high sanitary morals by washing and sanitizing hands frequently. I believe this connects to the disparity in the overall nature of the two countries, with the U.S. valuing individual liberty and freedom–allowing people to go back to living life without restrictions that came from COVID–whereas Japan values overall harmony–by keeping habits that were beneficial to society as a whole, even if it comes with extra effort involved on the individual end.
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