(Naturally the troll army jumped right on this.)
Interesting experience at Loweâs today. Customers varied wildly in mask usage, but employees had a very distinct pattern. White employees were masked, black and Hispanic (appearing) employees were not. Small and very very non-scientific sampling and all, but at least on this trip there were no exceptions. Wrote it off as weird but still bugged me. Is this really where we are?
My surreal retail experience today was at Aldi. Maybe half the customers wore masks, down from almost all the week before, before the loosening of the stay at home order. All the employees did, and cashiers had plexiglass shields between them and customers.
Several elderly customers there were struggling with their masks. They all looked like paper masks they had gotten somewhere else, maybe a doctorâs office, and were reusing. One woman kept taking hers on and off; she had a low cough and did not appear well at all.
An unmasked mother with 4- or 5-month-old infant mouthing on the handle of the shopping cart was actively encouraging the elderly customers to interact with her child: âCome say hello! She loves people!â Including the old lady with the cough.
And a meth mouth âgentlemanâ was lecturing the cashier about how she really shouldnât be wearing a mask or hiding behind the plexiglass because itâs all a big media hoax.
Iâm sad and scared tonight.
Iâm sad and scared too.
Us USians are in an idiocracy that seems much less stable than the one in that documentary, Idiocracy.
Had this occurred to someone in the Trump Organization as a business opportunity they would sell those.
And there would be people who would buy them.
Donât listen to him Pele
Turns out the death boat industry is still limping around
Thereâs single rooms sitting there but denied to them?
Mutiny.
Figure out whoâs most important to keep the ship running and/or especially vulnerable and give them priority. Throw anyone who doesnât like it overboard.
About 2% of Moscow residents â or more than 250,000 people â have the coronavirus, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Saturday, citing test results.
Berlin Mayday protestors completely ignore Covid 19 laws and distancing requirements.
Sweden has decided it isnât going to issue a cell phone app:
BTW, the article includes this plot of Swedenâs R0 values:
I think, if weâre going t have any kind of practical life as we open up in the US, we will have to pay close attention to what Sweden has done.
But some stadiums were converted into emergency hospitals. Do you remember that show MASH? They had to build military style hospitals, just like the one of the show, in several capitals. How could you play soccer when there a is a hospital in the middle of the field?
This one worries me a bit. Iâve had no other symptoms, so the doctor thinks it was a reaction to the anti-depressant I started before quarantine.
Still, the itchy, spotty palms and torso were a bit scary.