Jeff V wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2020 4:10 pmI read a story today that Walmart was going to start sealing off "non-essential" departments, like furniture and arts and crafts.
Man, I had to read that twice because the first time I saw "Walmart is going to start laying people off from underperforming departments"
The grocery store report from rural Maine is that we're continuing to "get it" and people are slowly adapting measures - for the most part. I was out last night and left my wife in the car so we didn't take up two of the 70 allowed occupants in the store. Inside I would say 90% of the 60+ year old people had masks. All of the employees had a hodge-podge of masks, but half with their noses sticking out. Of the under 60 crowd, maybe 70% of them were wearing masks, and those without masks were something like 90% male.
There was one couple I could identify, which isn't bad - but there was also one entire family of five which seemed irresponsible. I have kids of my own, and while the kids may not be bringing the virus home from school, they're FAR less aware of themselves than adults and are more prone to contaminating everything around them. These kids were climbing all over the cart and ranging a few feet away from the parents, but generally sticking close. There's no way to socially distance yourself from a rampaging family when you're in an isle trying to figure out which of the 20 boxes of remaining pasta you want and they're coming at you.
So week by week, rural Maine is still escalating their response,
in general. Maine is still under 900 confirmed cases, with 12 known in our county - so it's not even like we're seeing a rash of infections locally to keep the momentum on this. I just tend to think Mainers are a little less selfish than some other states' people are.
