What happened to social distancing??
I live in an area where people masked up right at the start and stayed that way. Before the vaccine everyone stayed 6 feet apart if at all possible. All checkout places had clear plastic "walls". When Omicron came the masks reappeared, but this time lots of N95's, but social distancing hasn't returned. Just recently the plastic things disappeared. People stand a foot or two away from each other in lines. Even lines for COVID tests. Is there a subliminal understanding that you just can't distance enough to avoid Omicron, so what's the point? I did hear Fauci say once, in a sort of throw away remark, that most everyone is going to get it anyway. Also, growing evidence of how really, really mild it is even among the elderly if vaxed and boosted.
Is the loss of social distancing holding true in your community?
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In THIS Eastern TN county? Yeah, right. 
I was at my primary care's office yesterday. The automated confirmation call they made the day before specifically stated that masks are required. There's a sign on the door saying masks are required. I wore 2 KN95 masks. Shortly after I sat down, an elderly obese couple came in without masks. The man left almost immediately and the woman was given a mask, which she promptly put on below her nose. No one said a thing.
There were chairs all pushed together in the waiting room, but fewer than usual. Everyone gets asked if they've been near anyone who tested positive for Covid within the last 2 weeks. A woman who came in behind me said her boss had tested positive the day before. Well, at least she had on a mask. But once she got checked in, she went over to sit where all the other tv-watchers were.
Several months ago when I had a sinus infection and had to wait in the car for a Covid test, the doc who came out said he was having a very hard time convincing people they need to be vaccinated. I could hear his frustration.
Meanwhile, the local cardiologist's office is completely anti-vax and telling his heart patients not to get boosters because the vaccinations supposedly cause Afib.
Almost no one wears masks or does social distancing in the stores, which I visit rarely and my husband visits weekly for our groceries. It's spreading like wildfire here and very few people are doing anything to prevent it.
My primary care was horrified when I told her about the signs. It took me a long time to find her.
I will never understand why religious people get into the medical professions at all. If people actually followed the advice on their signs, they'd have no patients. 
Oh, and our hospital has pictures of white blonde Jesus lining all the hallways. If you weren't sick before you got there, you will be after a walk down the hall. 
