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  2020-11-25

  順番待ち不要！最新の銀行　窓口で現金受け渡しせず(2020年11月25日) - No need to wait in line! No delivery of cash at the latest bank counter (November 25, 2020)

  This is a news where Mitsui Sumitomo Banking Corporation, one of the biggest Banking Corporation in Japan, made the bank stores much more convenient and less clustered. Personally, I felt this was very slow in terms of technology, because compared to countries such as Korea, Japan always were analog with how they organized the bank and putting money. 銀行の順番待ちも窓口前でずっと待つ必要がなくなります。 　三井住友銀行が新たに開設した店舗では番号札を取った客がその場にいる必要がなく、店内が混雑して「密」な状態にならないようにします。また、窓口で現金の受け渡しをしません。高額の入金などは、客は電子サインの後にQRコードを受け取り、高性能なATMを使います。三井住友銀行は全体の約7割をこうした店舗にする計画です。 You don't have to wait in front of the counter to wait for the bank. At the store newly opened by Mitsui Sumitomo Banking Corporation, the customer who picked up the number tag does not need to be in the store, so that the store will not be crowded and become "clustered". In addition, cash will not be delivered at the counter. For large deposits, customers receive a QR code after an electronic signature and use a high-performance ATM. Mitsui Sumitomo Banking Corporation plans to make about 70% of all stores like this. Video Translated by Youngbin Noh
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  May 4, 2020

  Plague Journal, Day 52: Tale of the tip

  I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. In the latest entry, I forget to tip a delivery man, try to rectify my error, fail. Or not:
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  2020-03-29

  Plague Journal, Day 16: The Girlfriend and I swap symptoms

  I'm a New York City journalist keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest, including our inability to make sound decisions because we lack solid information:
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  2020-06-01

  Boycotting Safety Standards

  Businesses, such as grocery stores, have taken precautions such as having plexiglass shields and only accepting electronic payments to avoid the spread of the virus. Some, like the woman in this post, feel that this infringes upon their rights and calls for a boycott of such businesses. This woman additionally refers to her post as “exposing the modern new life,” indicating how safety standards and a person’s choice whether to abide has become politicized. The person who shared this post on reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook mockingly calls the poster “Karen,” and states she “died of starvation two weeks later.”
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  2020-03-24

  Signs From Around: #13, Vancouver, Canada

  "Signs From Around: #13, Vancouver, Canada" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Businesses try to prevent the virus spreading by not accepting paper currency transferred hand to hand.