bylm1-Bernie wrote:
In my adoptive town of 40,000 people, you rarely see anyone without a mask. If you are out, they avoid you like the plague. I see people riding bikes and walking by themselves with masks. You can't enter a restaurant and eat inside. If you walk into a grocery store and you don't have your mask on properly, you won't get 50 ft without someone telling you to pull your mask up to cover your nose. There is a dedicated cart cleaner wiping every cart with disinfectants. Retirement homes are run like jails. Leaving them is strongly discouraged. Temperatures are taken before leaving and when returning. Some good friends who very seldom leave home, having their groceries delivered to their front porch, were just diagnosed with covid. I really don't see how it would be possible to be any more isolated than they have been. Yet with all these things being true, the incidence of positive tests has been going up. Not deaths, mind you, just positive diagnoses. Maybe there is a hidden cause for this phenomenon but I doubt if it is lack of masking or lack of human distancing. Maybe the forthcoming vaccine is the answer. People around here have been asking one another for some time if they would or should take the vaccine if one is developed. I think the trend has moved more towards "Yes" than "I think I'll wait a while." Especially since a vaccine has been announced with better than average expectancies. Hopefully, in 6 months or less, this will all be a horrible dream.
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