Taking a break?

Originally Posted by DakotaRog

P76 is from rural SD so nothing really changed there. I'm from "metro" SD and nothing really changed here except there was no in-sitting dining, bars after a while, and most churches did on-line services. Mask wearing got up to maybe 50% out and about, but is now falling. Menards, a home building type of store out the Wis-- don't know beyond the Midwest how far they stretch-- now requires a mask to enter and will make you buy one for a buck if don't have one and don't walk out on them. I use an old tiger-stripe Vietnam era camo bandana (the camo is Vietnam era but the bandana is newer than that) when I'm in most stores. The wife is high risk so wears a mask about any retail place but has certainly been out a lot. South Dakota never did a state-wide lockdown and even in "metro" SD, things were pretty open. I and most of the staff of the facility I work at have been banished to work from home except for super essential peeps. I was one of the last professionals they forced home and told my supervisor that sooner or later the virus will be there in some form so all this micro-managing of where it came from and so on will become obsolete. But it keeps a number of the bureaucrats busy and in their world, that's "work"-- sorry, not in mine. I haven't been too interested in scrap metal given the overall crappy prices-- I wouldn't be scared to picked it up, especially if it was outside for some days. I've been trying to organize my space out in the garage better so I can break down and store more of the better stuff. I haven't been to the steel yard since sometime last fall, a penny and half or less a pound doesn't excite me. Maybe in June...

This is a stark contrast to how the coasts are reacting, at least around me. PA, Philly suburbs, you'd get crucified if you tried to go anywhere without a mask right now. NO restaurants are allowed or doing anything except take out. Everyone out in public has a mask here. Literally everyone. There is a line (6ft apart) to get into the home depot. they are counting and only allowing X amount of people in the store at once. So when a person leaves, a person radios that the person manning the line can let another person in. Some of our counties that are less populated have started transitioning into a "yellow" phase but higher populated areas arent going to even start getting off lockdown until June 5th. And that is only one of the many phases of phased reopening. Things wont be "back to normal", like, completely back to normal, such that you could go out and get dinner and a movie if you wanted, until 2021 if I had to make a guess..... at least around me.




Im pretty sure I already had it and got over it, so I am not too concerned about it for my sake. But people around me are for sure taking it seriously and I know one of my co-workers' father has died from the rona, and another co-worker is currently in ICU teetering on the edge at the moment with it.