I don't suppose I should be surprised, but in my brief forays outside during the past two days, I'm still seeing people engaged in unessential activities like eating in restaurants, attending a yoga class or getting a haircut. In one case, I walked by a kitchen cabinets store near my house and saw people inside talking to a salesman. You can't wait to install your new kitchen counters?
I absolutely get it that people want to get out of the house and do something that feels normal. I also get it that there are people whose jobs require them to be in contact with others. I'm especially sympathetic to supermarket cashiers, whose job requires them to have close contact with hundreds of people, but whose role may turn out to be as important as police or firefighters before this is all over.
On other other hand, if I were a movie theater usher, I sure wouldn't be showing up for work. It's one thing when your job involves selling people food. It's quite another be asked to risk your health and the health of those around you so someone can see Frozen 2.
It may be that movie theaters around here have closed already, I'm not sure. Most public spaces--schools, libraries, churches and gyms--have closed down within the past 2-3 days.
One thing I've been wondering about--every time I see pictures of people in groups (just now was looking at scenes from mobbed airports) half the people are wearing face masks--where the heck are they getting them? By early this past week, any kind of prophylactic or disinfectant item, such as face masks, gloves and or course hand sanitizer, had been completely stripped from the shelves. For anyone around here to have masks, they would have had to be incredibly prescient or have some kind of connection.