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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
07/21/2020 at 07:36 • Filed to: covid-19, Covid lyfe, coronavirus, tumblr

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404 - User No Longer Available > pip bip - choose Corrour
07/21/2020 at 07:46

HSBC Canada has been posting signs saying you must remove masks before entering the bra nch. That's illegal now.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > 404 - User No Longer Available
07/21/2020 at 07:54

HSBC has never done anything illegal. Nope, definitely not. Never ever. Uh ugh. Nope. Clean as a whistle.

facw > pip bip - choose Corrour
07/21/2020 at 08:07

The banks here recently had a bit of a change of heart:

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The American Bankers Association is calling on banks to adopt mask requirements, the trade group announced Monday, in a departure from long-held policies that prevent customers from wearing facial coverings.

Banks have historically discouraged customers from wearing masks, hats, hoods or other facial coverings to deter bank robbers. But amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, reducing the threat of infection takes precedence, Rob Nichols, ABA president and chief executive, said in a news release.

“Requiring the use of masks and face coverings is a step every bank can take to ensure that our industry is doing everything it can to protect our employees, customers and the communities we serve,” Nichols said in a statement. “We owe it to frontline bank staff to prioritize their safety and to contribute to the wider effort to limit the spread of this infection.”

Recent moves by Costco, Target and Walmart to require masks in every U.S. store have prompted other companies to follow suit in the past week. But the ABA’s decision comes after the chief of a top banking regulator sent letters to mayors and governors around the country warning that mask requirements create a “very real risk” of increasing bank robberies.

“Recent reports of face-covering-related robberies at bank branches and other establishments make clear that broadly applicable face mask requirements are not safe or sustainable on a permanent basis,” Brian P. Brooks, acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, wrote in the June 1 letter , which did not offer more detail on such reports. Stephanie Collins, a spokesperson for the agency, provided news stories about recent robberies involving surgical masks in Georgia, New Jersey, Connecticut and California.

Mixed messaging from local and state governments, and varying business policies, have politicized mask use despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that suggests masks can help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The pathogen causes covid-19, which has killed at least 137,000 people in the United States . The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus infections has topped 3.7 million. The CDC, which originally downplayed the importance of masks, now calls face coverings “a critical preventive measure” and says they should be worn in public.

From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/20/covid-live-updates-us/ (they make it hard to link to the specific story for some reason)

Honestly, the whole idea of bank robberies seems comically antiquated, though I guess it still happens.