Subj : Shit has hit the fan!
To   : TINY
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Mar 29 2020 08:47:00

>   Yesterday (Saturday) the grocery stores were busier then ever.  Social
>   distancing?  Hell no.  Limit of 50 people in the store?  Hell no.
>   Walmart must have had a thousand people in it.  It was cheque weekend
>   so they spent spent spent.

Here, the Walmart is open 24 hours (still, I think?) so I can distance if I
am willing to get there early enough.  On the other hand, in Kroger's you
can forget it.  :(  I had run out of some things (trying not to hoard but I
need to start buying higher quantities to stay away from there), so I had
to go yesterday morning.  Did not go at opening because I know that is a
mad house.  Went about 1.5 hours later.  Most of the customers were keeping
their distance from each other.

I did notice that, as always, the older folks (60+) were not distancing and
were touching everything (just like kids on both counts).  The workers were
not distancing either.  FYI, that store also used to be 24hrs.  Sometime
before the outbreak (between November and Christmas) they shortened hours
so that they could "do stocking."  They obviously are not using those down
hours for that.  The shorter hours make it almost impossible to get there
when there are not plenty of people there.

>   How do I know?  I'm (somehow) considered essential as a part time cab
>   driver.  The world is fucked.

Because people are not distancing, or because you are still driving a cab.
LOL!

Mike


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