Are your Home Depot’s limiting the number of people? I tried to go a couple weeks ago because I needed a cfl lightbulb and I was headed near that store anyway but they had a line of probably 40 people waiting so I came home and ordered one online.
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Are your Home Depot’s limiting the number of people? I tried to go a couple weeks ago because I needed a cfl lightbulb and I was headed near that store anyway but they had a line of probably 40 people waiting so I came home and ordered one online.
Jelly Bean Prickster, the IL gov, is now saying the peak is going to be mid-June.
The one in my area is, as is Loew's. If I need something I will likely go to a smaller neighborhood hardware store to avoid the lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Yes, HD was limiting the number of people and had a sign about it.
Yes. I understand it is a corporate policy to manage the flow for safe social distancing.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v1Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Note in yellow "This version is not peer reviewed."Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
I like the first comment on the nonfinancial costs of wearing masks. The response to it was you need to protect elderly people. I do that. I stay away from them. There is more than one way to protect people. The government could be arranging food deliveries to them so they do not have to leave their homes. Or they could accept deliveries from volunteers like me. But the elderly are a powerful voting bloc and politicians are afraid to tell them they have to stay put, so we are infringing on everyone else's rights and gutting our economy instead lest the elderly get bored at home. The elderly self-quarantining is much more effective than them being in stores in close proximity to others but with people masked.
This drives me nuts with my mom. The latest was I stocked up on groceries so I won't have to go anywhere for 3 weeks. She will not let me go for her. The very next day she went to another store for some items the first store was out of. A couple days later to the drugstore for nonessential OTC items. Then the day after that to a nursery for plants. A few days later to Tractor Supply to browse their plants and see if they have seed potatoes. She could call and ask. She just wants to get out of the house and the narrative now is wandering around near other people is okay if you wear a mask. The stores are packed. The ice cream truck set up shop in the supermarket parking lot because that is where all the people are.
ETA My mother kept trying to get me to go visit with her in her living room for Mother's Day. She said we can wear masks. I refused and insisted on visiting outside 10+ feet away.
And talking to mom today, the mom who said I won't go to the grocery store for 3 weeks, after less than a week she went because "I know where everything in the store is so it doesn't take me long and I wear a mask."
This is a woman who has a pacemaker, various medical conditions, and has almost died twice. But hey, she's got that mask.
I hope for her sake that everyone else has a mask, since those will do more to keep her safe than her own mask.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I’m seeing online that LA County might extend its shutdown by three months.