reason i ask: bf been out in tuscon all day (needed to buy a suit for an upcoming wedding we're gonna attend) and talked about going out to eat, etc. I said I was surprised places we're still open. His response was 'you're the only one still practicing lockdown'.
Since last March I have been to the grocery and hardware stores and once last summer I had an outdoor picnic and walk with a friend on her birthday. It was nice but very fraught. I had to fill out paperwork to work from home full time but no one fought me about it. I did in fact acquire a puppy.
To the extent possible, yeah. I don’t go out except for work (which I own and control) and for groceries, which I order ahead and pick up, and exercise, where I’m masked and distanced. Sometimes I go to a friend’s house’s basement for a few hrs to use her laundry room because my apartment’s laundry room is public and hard to avoid people in.
Yes, we still do. Used to do the weekly groceries, but now we buy almost everything online. Southern California; it's getting better (which only means it's really bad instead of making the national news every day for how bad it is). We just found another variant though. So we'll see.
no lockdown here in Texas. Schools are back in session in most places face to face so I have to go in to work daily. life is basically back to normal here except people begrudgingly wear masks. Some people here aren't going out and buy things online
I’m in Toronto, Canada, where in-restaurant dining had been closed since March, and schools have been mostly virtual since. But... definitely lots of struggle with compliance.
I'm still in lockdown. I have...gone to the store for groceries and gotten curbside pick up sometimes. And that has been the total extent of my human contact since March 2020.
as much as possible, but it's hard when you have to go work in an office and interact with truckers and exchange physical paperwork and stuff. Only really go out to get groceries, if i see people it's outside and distanced
I've done grocery shopping in person over the summer and into autumn. only last month, or December, discovered you can pay someone to shop for you and deliver things. It's super nice.
Texas is so scary. My family is there, though do to age and conditions, they've been blessedly vaccinated. One of my best friends is a teacher and was infected at school. So scary out there.
a lot of restaurants have had indoor dining this whole time because getting fined, if anyone bothered, would be about a days wages so they take the gamble and so people keep goingggg lol
Also Texas. And agreeing that people aren't really doing lockdown. My family is as much as possible. But this area has always been the last to do anything. I even still see people walking around maskless in stores. They wear it to get through the doors and then take them off.
I have parents of my students asking me why I'm still "being controlled by fear and wearing a mask" AFTER I caught covid from one of my students back in November. Texas is crazy.
but hearing him talk sometimes (keeping in mind that he caught covid and still goes to dnd games and out shopping... though to be fair a lot of today was spent on car maintenance) it's like... i'm being shamed for wanting to not leave the house when its scary as hell out there??
masks are required, but most stores, businesses, restaurants, etc. are operating at full capacity, and i have several offline friends who i'm straight up refusing to see in person now because i know they're not being cautious
Not too much. I miss seeing my parents or travelling to visit my Sis. But when the social distancing guidelines first started we all joked that this is the moment we were born for, we are social distancing experts even pre-pandemic. Honestly, my life changed very very little except that I stopped hanging out in coffee shops to read on the weekends and just
But I live alone and didn't have a social life before the pandemic, so the only difference was not doing my usual couple-times-a-year out-of-state travel.
more or less, yeah. mostly because I've been working from home since last march, but NYC has been pretty cautious and I've been staying away from people when possible
I'm not a dispatcher, but!! I'm a receptionist/customer service assistant for a paper company... we get loads of trucks and I have to collect all the paperwork once the loads are received to invoice the customers and all that. It could all be done digitally if people weren't too lazy to implement it haha
But I also have a high risk father I'm the primary caretaker for, so it's an adjustment in that respect. No exceptions without extreme cautions. And I nearly smashed my grocery cart into the last guy who tried to stand too close behind me with his mask under his nose.
I get a lot of OMG WE DONT KNOW WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE and WOW DO YOU WEAR IT AT HOME TOO.... meanwhile most of the office has gotten covid to the point of the HR lady needing to be hospitalized and a coworker's mom died of it but they still.... forget to wear their masks lmao
The teachers in my district who aren't working from home do the stupidest shit, too. And it's terrible around the school. Every zoom call has a person with no mask saying "Oh, Ms Thomas is in here with me because her computer isn't working!" or something
In Santa Fe everyone I see wears masks. They just do. I keep thinking it's gonna be really weird moving to AZ in April and seeing people in public not wearing masks. That just doesn't happen here.
Between MAGA country and a large religious community that flipped their shit about social distancing and masks... it's not good here. I get a call at least every other week about outbreaks I the local school district.
eh tbf mum is back in ohio so i only contact her online. but still, yeah. it's just one more reason i don't poke my head out much. convos with bf have been tense (he's very anti-Biden, anti-liberal, etc)
oh man good point about the religious community part -- I keep forgetting that I'm only a couple of miles from one of the worst COVID hotspots in the city, if not the state
most of our local douchebags lack the courage of their convictions. The worst are full of passionate intensity, but the second worst just take their masks on if they think they won't get in trouble, like unambitious middle school assholes
re: lockdowns and such, had a depressing convo with my Sis some months ago about how burnt out she was and how she has stopped caring if people are dying and hates that she's stopped caring, but was so burnt out and demoralized by working 60+ hours a week nonstop since January 2020 when the first case was identified, doing all this policy and guidelines work
As a trucker, I both have and haven't been in lockdown since this all started. The only person I ever see for more than 15 mins a day is my cat. BUT I have to work. Can't exactly work from home while driving. Can confirm, though, that every company I've delivered to, except for a few backwards individuals in Texas and Arkansas, have been in lockdown.
Totally locked down here, and in a spike, so enforcement is very high. Restaurants closed, most businesses at curbside pickup, non essential services greatly restricted
You can't go to a gig in an all night call centre and restaurants do have to close, but pharmacies or even truck drivers in the food supply chain qualify
Although that varies a bit depending on transmission rates in your area. My zone is red so I know we're on the strictest protocol. You can't drive into our area without hitting a highway check point and demonstrating residency/legitimate business in the area
since it's a remote region of the mountains with not a lot of medical care and a large number of vulnerable elderly year round residents (and quite a few ski chalets)
i live with my bf's family, and his mom has scarred lungs and a bit of a fuckered immune system, so we all have to be very careful. but his dad does a kind of medical work (goes around helping with medical supplies like oxygen tanks, chairs, etc., usually in people's homes)
very occasionally we will go and meet with other people who are have been just as careful. but we also live in the middle of nowhere, missouri, so sometimes we cant do our grocery stuff via curbside
the nearest Real City has a mask mandate, but we dont really go into stores there so i dont remember how well people are respecting it or not. people in the nearest small town, though? l m a o
but also: of course someone who is going out would say "you are the only one still in lockdown." you know who people aren't seeing and thus wouldn't know about? the other people in lockdown
Georgia isn’t really in lockdown, particularly in rural areas like where I live. If you go to Walmart in the middle of the day, half the people aren’t masked — which is why I don’t go there! I have been avoiding close contact with people for a year and wearing masks/social distancing when I do see people I know. The one exception being my sister and her kids
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: TY I am definitely doing my best to be safe!! It’s kind of sad actually, but I feel safer in a hospital with Covid positive patients than I do going into Walmart BC at least at the hospital, workers protect each other by masking up and ofc we get PPE
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: I could understand that, plus the people coming into the hospital need help and probably aren't being actively careless while they're there.
Here in the few businesses that are open they're required by law to have someone stationed at the door with a hand sanitizer, who makes sure they wear a mask and makes sure they sanitize. And in medical buildings they make you take off your mask and replace it for a medical grade one.
Yeah, masking mandates are still very local and there's still a large number of people convinced that it's government tyranny. Occasionally I point out to them that we have lots of public safety laws that constrain what you can and cannot do, for the sake of your and other people's safety, like DWI laws. But they don't want to hear it.
People ask me about mine and I point out that it's cold as hell outside and the really thick cloth mask i wear is warm on my face. "Y'all are lucky I haven't figured out how to attach earmuffs to this thing"
I've been feeling that way lately, too. (And interestingly, it's improved my exercise-induced asthma when I'm out walking/hiking, I think because it's keeping the air I'm breathing in warmer and moister.)
I get a call at least every other week about outbreaks I the local school district.