There are several possible reasons for this:
1). Trumps lack of early response and the continuing lack of novel coronavirus test kits.
2). Fox news, the trumpster politicians continuing to minimize the threat of the coronovirus, and the trump people believing them.
3). A free society's notion of rugged individualism (sefishness).
4). Millennial's (the me, me, me generation) carefree nature.
The Answer:
Namu Myoho renge kyo
DEMONS AND DISEASE. In Japan, the color red is associated closely with a few deities in Shinto and Buddhist traditions, and statues of these deities are often decked in red clothing or painted red. There are many clues that underpin the red association. The most compelling clues involve demon quelling and disease (e.g., smallpox, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, measles). According to Japanese folk belief, RED is the color for "expelling demons and illness.” The rituals of spirit quelling were regularly undertaken by the Yamato court during the Asuka Period (522 - 645 AD). Centered on the fire god (a red deity), these purification rites were designed to purify the land by sending evil spirits to the Ne no Kuni (details here). This association with evil segues easily into other links with child mortality, protection against evil forces (sickness), fertility, the caul (embryonic membrane covering the head at birth), and other child-birth imagery. The red bibs, red robes, red scarfs, and red caps found frequently on certain Japanese deities!
ReplyDeleteSome of Nichiren's Gohonzons have a red border protection arround them!
Red is also the color of the bloods gang.
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