The most optimistic anecdote from Tokyo in a while: I went to the grocery store yesterday. This same store was business as usual ~2 weeks ago. Yesterday:
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To the extent the coronavirus response relies on institutions and authority, oh boy. To the extent it is a distributed challenge of bringing one's A game to diligence and logistics, this grocery store has a whole lot of diligence and logistics expertise and more on backorder.
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I will note, not for the first time, that this is not entirely distinct from the annoying & hairsplitting discourse regarding whether formal authorities have said particular magic words, because the grocery store didn't institutionally achieve conviction prior to the magic words.
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Interestingly a lot of these measures are viral (in a good way). There isn't a central czar of grocery store layouts distributing plans for plastic barriers. Someone either went to another store or saw a photo and said "Oh, that's clever", then field expedience'd up 30 of them.
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so heartening
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I really want someone to put up a sign saying: Welcome to our store. You will find we have more than adequate stocks of plastic, cardboard, soap, alcohol-based disinfectant, and personal protective equipment, plus incredible attention to detail and constant desire to improve.
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I'd love to see ANY of this in the US - especially disinfection of baskets/carts and PIN pads.
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I carried an new, unsharpened pencil with me on my grocery outing this weekend to be ready for the pin pad. But they have dialed the limits way up on what requires a pin. My chip card didn’t ask for anything else on a purchase nearly double what I knew the old limit to be.
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My wholefoods in SF is exactly like that too right now.
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what percentage of shoppers were wearing masks 2 weeks ago?
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Except for that last bullet, that describes the grocery store I visited this weekend here in the PNW as well. Plus signs reminding folks of personal separation at the end of almost every aisle, and announcements asking you to keep space every 20min.
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