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america opens up but not everyone goes out to eat on a restaurant patio (Original Post) orleans Jun 2020 OP
Patio near bar over the water, elleng Jun 2020 #1
i'm taking a pass for now orleans Jun 2020 #2
Everyone wears masks @ my grocery store, elleng Jun 2020 #3
I'm doing the grocery store-- dawg day Jun 2020 #5
I'm hoping for mid to late 2021 for normalcy again. herding cats Jun 2020 #4
Well being and old fart Timewas Jun 2020 #6
We haven't been to restaurant nor used delivery since March! We've gone to the grocery store each napi21 Jun 2020 #7
And the sign says: Newest Reality Jun 2020 #8
I ask for a table that's downwind from the coughing guy. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #9

orleans

(33,986 posts)
2. i'm taking a pass for now
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:19 AM
Jun 2020

still at a wait and see how the fallout from memorial day goes

haven't been in a grocery store yet either. lately every time i go to pick up my order i'm the only car there waiting.
shrug.
less waiting time as i sit there and think: i hope everyone in that store has their damn mask on.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
5. I'm doing the grocery store--
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:32 AM
Jun 2020

And walking with a friend, always masked, and we don't look at each other and walk 6 feet apart.
Otherwise, not much outside the house.

I have learned something about myself. I have floppy ears-- you know, like a beagle. When I use those mask with earloops, my ears just kind of collapse, and the loops come off.

herding cats

(19,549 posts)
4. I'm hoping for mid to late 2021 for normalcy again.
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:27 AM
Jun 2020

To say 2023 is just unnecessarily scary and mean in my opinion.

Timewas

(2,174 posts)
6. Well being and old fart
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:33 AM
Jun 2020

I probably don't have a whole lot of years left but I intend to stay put for the foreseeable future... No need for movies or eating out or any of the other dangerous(at this time) activities..

napi21

(45,806 posts)
7. We haven't been to restaurant nor used delivery since March! We've gone to the grocery store each
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:44 AM
Jun 2020

week & everyone there had a mask, and aisles are one way. There are sani wipes as you go into the store & an employee is wiping off he cart handle before they offer it to you. It seems pretty safe to me. As much as I want to go out for dinner, I'm waiting. Our open restaurants all have limited capacity & some have patio service but I'm sill leery. I just read an article today that found contaminated droplets just from talking stay suspended in the air for 8 minutes. LOUD TALKING is much higher. I'm gonna keep house bound for a lot longer.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
8. And the sign says:
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:18 AM
Jun 2020
Highly contagious with a huge potential for exponential growth.


That has not changed as far as I can tell. That's all one needs to know about it in order to decide to be collateral damage for the Republican Death Cult.

When it is all clear, so to speak, we will know. There will be no question about it. The numbers will consistently fall. We don't know when that will be, but ignoring the data and facts about it will mostly likely extend the time frame for exposure.

At this rate, anywhere from one to two years of spikes and waves is possible.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
9. I ask for a table that's downwind from the coughing guy.
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:22 AM
Jun 2020

Kidding!

I haven't been to a restaurant in months, anyway.

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