I was still working for Pokémon at the time and was on my way home from Tokyo, at Haneda airport. My gate had a sign from JAL saying “we are wearing masks to protect you from COVID-19” and I thought, shit, if Japanese people need to explain why they’re wearing masks, this could be a fucking thing.
I was pretty heavy into Pokémon Go at the time and a bunch of us were meeting outside for a raid and staying like 10-15 feet away from each other because nobody knew what the fuck was going on