Leaving Home In Troubled Times - A Thread

I don't go out much. Truly essential trips and nothing more. Today I needed something from the computer store & groceries

My area is under "safer at home" & mandatory masks

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I didn't go anywhere that wasn't open during the more restrictive "stay at home" mandates

First - the computer store

Big signs about wearing masks. Table at the entrance with someone to spray your hands with Sanitizer & paper masks for those who needed them

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The aisles weren't marked one way only & the quarters are tight. There were tape marks in the aisles to encourage distancing

#PlagueRats were not wearing masks & paying no attention to the marks. Not many but a few.

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Dollar Store was fine. Almost everyone was wearing a mask & keeping distance. Except one young Hipster couple. I guess masks would have harshed their vibe or something

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The grocery store. Oh geez the grocery store. Signs to wear masks & one way aisles well marked

More #PlagueRats not wearing masks, paying no attention to one way signs or social distancing

Many more of them

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The police can ticket people not wearing masks. There's a catch. The stores have to ask them to to it. The stores won't risk alienating their customers by forcing the issue

So no one is going to enforce the requirement until our cases spike again

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More people will die or run up hospital bills that will bankrupt them. Unemployment will stay at record highs. Businesses will be forced to close

It's going to happen anyway but being sensible might lessen the damage

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The moral of this thread is that some people are going to ruin it for the rest of us because they can't be bothered to take some basic precautions

Those will be the first ones to protest putting the restrictions again too

Wear your damn mask

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