Hello.
From today, our company has started virus prevention measures to avoid crowded trains and other crowds by staggering work hours, teleworking, and using paid leave.

People whose trains are crowded when they commute to work were delaying their start time by 30 minutes to 1 hour, and everyone came up with their own ideas.
My usual work hours are 9:00 to 18:00, but starting today I changed them to 8:00 to 17:00, trying to shift by one hour from the peak.
When I left home at 6:30 and got on the train, there were five times as many people as usual.
Everyone thinks the same thing, I guess...
In the end it was crowded, so I was kind of like, hmm..., but I hope the return trip will be less crowded.
If it’s not less crowded on the way home either, I’ll give up on getting up early.
The train was full of people wearing masks, and if someone even cleared their throat a little, people would make a really annoyed face...
Today I saw someone on the same train who clearly had hay fever keep sneezing, and I watched people around them move away.
I want to quickly get back a kind, healthy, and safe Japan...
That’s all for today; if the train home is less crowded, I’ll write a blog post again tomorrow...!