Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Today looks like a record number for cases, which seems crazy after how things went in April. For the but more testing crowd, more tests today than a week ago but a 7.7 percent positive rate compared to a 4.9 last week. Not a good trend.

 

Huh. I thought that more testing after lockdown was supposed to reveal reduced infections. Go figure...

 

Booked my tickets back to the states today for Christmas. (Credit from a cancelled trip last month.)

This seems like the most empty gesture I've made in a long time.

 

Cognitive dissonance.

 

The lady at the end asks "suggestively" the other woman rethink her credentials. I want to see her ask suggestively. Please, can I see what that looks like.

 

Went to Home Depot, cashier and returns clerk wearing masks below their noses. "It's hot out and I can't breathe."

At Haagen-Dasz, first day re-opened in-store, server not wearing mask as I (and others) walk in

CVS, cashier pushes aside plexiglas barrier. "It's a pain to check people out."

Contractor: Wants to finish project but not until workers can work without masks, because "it's better for them."

 

Had my first group outing today with my service club at a member’s home. Despite me sending out CDC recommendations with suggestions for such gatherings, no one listened. There were help-yourself plates of appetizers and everyone scooping out of the same trays for dinner and cutting into desserts. I brought individual fruit cups and no one ate them.

The host’s husband asked why I didn’t have any appetizers and I said I was saving room for dinner instead of “I’m saving my life.” I was the second one to grab dinner so only one person’s germs were ahead of mine.

There also were handshakes and no masks, although most arrived wearing them. This is a very educated group and most are moderate politically. It wasn’t deliberate defiance, but it really bothered me.

FWIW, at 60 I was the fifth youngest person there among 16 people.