Who Has Not Been Vaccinated?

[Yppej]

The Vermont eye doctor is not accepting new patients. I am now thinking maybe Rhode Island or Maine. Will see.

[happystuff]

I feel very grumbly lately. Everything is struggle and frustration, it seems. Maybe the coming sunshine will cure my malaise.

I've had those moods. Hopefully the sunshine will help, otherwise, I used to just sleep a bit more.

[jp1]

Went to the grocery store yesterday. I'd forgotten that it was the first day of normal for California. About 2/3 of the people were still wearing masks (including me). Noticed a few minor changes around the store. For instance the bulk, store-cooked bagels were individually wrapped throughout the pandemic. Yesterday they were unwrapped with a tray of paper bags nearby like they were 15 months ago. That 'protection' had always seemed rather silly since throughout the pandemic I could still walk across the store to the produce section and pick up individual apples or other produce. At least the bagels have a sneeze guard.

[Yppej]

Maine and RI still have restrictions. I am trying more eye doctors in NH.

[happystuff]

Went to the grocery store yesterday. I'd forgotten that it was the first day of normal for California. About 2/3 of the people were still wearing masks (including me). Noticed a few minor changes around the store. For instance the bulk, store-cooked bagels were individually wrapped throughout the pandemic. Yesterday they were unwrapped with a tray of paper bags nearby like they were 15 months ago. That 'protection' had always seemed rather silly since throughout the pandemic I could still walk across the store to the produce section and pick up individual apples or other produce. At least the bagels have a sneeze guard.

Not to be argumentative or anything, but I'm thinking most produce can be/does get washed once people get it home. I don't know that I would want to eat a bagel I had to wash first. lol.

On the other hand, I have no problems with buying a bagel in a bagel shop or some place that has them in containers together as long as it is only the employees who have access to bag it up for me (every place I have been even pre-covid, the employees wore gloves) - instead of the potential of every shopper in the store being able to touch and choose as many bagels as they want before finding their perfect one for purchase.

[jp1]

In theory people are using the little tissue slips to pick up the bagels and not actually touching any of them. Whether they do or not, who knows.

I wonder which kills more germs. Rinsing/rubbing an apple in water for ten seconds or heating a bagel in a toaster. Either way, with case counts here in the low single digits for a county of 250,000 people I’m not concerned about getting covid from either.

[ApatheticNoMore]

If you were going to get covid from bagels, getting take out, much less door dash etc. delivery from who knows who, would be a problem and people shouldn't have gotten take out and delivery during covid. But formites turned out to be a real non-issue. There is what actually spread covid (breathing) and what never much did, although at the very beginning we did not know, so I washed stuff from the grocery back then too.

[jp1]

Went into the city today to go to the recently fully reopened library. Still a lot of masks being worn. And still required at the library which makes sense given the very diverse type of patrons they have.

[ApatheticNoMore]

very diverse being code for homeless But yea it really does make sense there.

most places I am going are not particularly diverse (in terms of class anyway), they aren't particularly disadvantaged, and I'm not wearing a mask now vaccinated. But where have I even been? the gym, the store, restaurants, kinda, that's about it.

[JaneV2.0]

Got my J&J today, via Uber.
I think I was prudent choosing that one, due to the logistics of it all.
After sporting 2 snug fitting masks, five layers, plus a filter, I'm solidly on team yppej.

I'll see about a booster later.

I also got 10% off 2 pounds of char siu BBQ pork, which will end up in Singapore noodles some time in the future.