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12 Pics That Show ‘The New Normal’ For Many Places Reopening In The US
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There’s been a lot of debate about whether or not the United States should ‘reopen’ during the coronavirus pandemic. Whichever side of the fence you might be on, I think that we can all agree that there’s a certain way that things can and should be done to save lives. Reopening can be done well—but it takes a lot of effort and creativity.
We have a unique insight into how the US could be reopened and what the new normal could look like. From social distancing circles in a park in Brooklyn to see-through separators at bars and designated waiting areas at coffee shops, these reopening measures might become something we see everywhere in the US. Scroll down and upvote your fave safety measures, dear Pandas!
As of May 20, every single state that had imposed a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order has begun lifting the coronavirus quarantine restrictions that were put in place on businesses and public spaces, in one form or another, CNN reports.
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Drive-In Movie Theaters Are Returning
I hope this is a social adaptation that sticks around permanently. I used to love going to the drive-in as a kid and would to take my kids someday.
Foot-Operated Hand Sanitizer
Food Truck Using Chutes To Maintain Distance
I want one of these in house. Just a random dude shooting food at me via a chute. Nom, nom.
Of course, each state is lifting restrictions differently. So while some states allow people to go back to restaurants, offices, and places of worship in all counties, others are more careful about this.
For instance, the stay-at-home order in Alabama expired on April 24 and retail stores, hair salons, libraries, gyms, and bars are all reopened. However, California is going a different route by opting for regional reopenings. In California, since May 12, restaurants and shopping centers have been reopening bit by bit. But only in counties that meet the required criteria.
Bumper Tables To Keep Customers Social Distancing
How long before people start crashing into each other like bumper cars though.
Starbucks With No Seating
How are hippies going to finish their teen mystery novels they have been working on for 3 years
New York is doing things similarly to California by going for limited regional reopenings from May 15. The reopenings are limited to partial construction, manufacturing, and curbside retail but don’t include “major aspects of public life,” according to The New York Times. Beaches should also be reopening soon, but it’ll be a while before the state goes back to normal. New York has been especially hard-hit by Covid-19.
There have been 353k confirmed cases of the coronavirus in New York and 22.8k people have died. 195k of those infected were in New York City and nearly 15.8k of those who died lived there as well. The US has more than 1.58 million coronavirus cases in total and 301k people have recovered from the illness.
Social Distancing Circles In Brooklyn
That’s cool but I don’t think it’s the long term future. When the pandemic ends, people will go back to how they were, just like after 1918 and swine flu.
Protection At A Nail Salon
Protection Of Fast Food Employees
See-Through Barriers At A Bar
Temparature Check At Universal Studios
I don’t see how people can do this and think it’s safe. This is dangerous and stupid.
This makes me sad, this isn't a world I want to live in. I truly hope we can move away from this one day.
Adaptation is the key to survival.
Kristina Thomas, except they did. Pandemics caused such big changes in society that even now, hundreds of years later it is still visible. But this virus is not going to make this happen for that it is not lethal and dangerous enough - note I'm not saying it is not dangerous for all those who get triggered easy - I'm saying it's not dangerous enough for society to life like that forever. I think the bigger changes are going to happen within the economy where a lot of things proved to just be totally wrong, for example weekly fashion which completely got annihilated by the lockdowns. It will be tough but change often is something good.
The hinan race has made it through many pandemics and those didn't change the way people socialize. The media is using this one for sensationalism and the politicians are using it to gain power over the people. The deaths are real, but the level of fear The Powers That Be say we should have is B.S. I refuse to become a germophobe. Yes I'm being careful, but not paranoid, and I hope the whole world calms down within the next year or so. This is nothing new.
I made a similar comment but I'm just getting downvoted for it! I agree it makes me tremendously sad, I don't want to have to live in a world like this either. I really can't imagine anyone would choose to!!
I was thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, it sounds like it will be around much longer than anticipated.
No need to worry too much, in the beginning we just knew it's a new Virus and it's spreading fast, there were horror stories from some countries, so everybody feared the worst. The more time is passing the more is known about the Virus, some countries managed to do better than others. So at the moment we are learning and adapting with the general mindset being better overly save than sorry. In my country after having an initial moderate lockdown with people still being allowed to go outside as they wish but with distance and later business openings with masks things get more and more relaxed with the number of sick people decreasing the same time. So it is entirely possible that we will get over this in a not too long time. But for now we have to wait and see.
Tough shit.
Lee, One thing I like about this site is that for the most part, we can have a mature adult conversation on here. Please don't ruin that.
I used to say "remember when we could see people?" As a joke but now I don't think it's a joke anymore
Clever, innovative, some probably a lot more effective than others but this is just so sad. Who wants to live in a world like this!
Don’t know why you got downvoted. This shit is miserable and it sucks hard. I would rather stay at home than do this shit and pretend it’s safe or normal. It’s dangerous and miserable. It’s not normal, and it’s not the way things were, and it’s not the way anyone would want to live. It’s extremely sad. I hope something changes soon and the vaccine comes out, or a really effective treatment, or the virus mutates into something weaker. I’m tired of not making money and even more tired of being too scared to do anything.
Unfortunately, until a vaccine is created (and possibly longer), we can't just go back to the way we acted before. Yes, it's a complete overhaul of the way we behave in a social setting. But it's either that or staying home.
Does that mean I can't feel sad about it!! That this 'new normal' is a shitty way to raise your kids, a shitty way for humans to have to live. I didn't say it wasn't necessary, I said it was sad.
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Well bird flu and swine flu pretty much went away and I didn't take a vaccine for either of those.
If my options are "live in a world like this" or "drown from the inside as my lungs fill with fluid"....I think I will take the plastic shields.
There’s no guarantee that you wouldn’t get Covid even with these safety measures. Your other option is to just wait for the vaccine and stay your ass at home.
@Tabitha: The point isn't to keep people from getting the virus. Most of us will get it eventually. The point is to avoid us all getting it at once.
i mean your other option is to ... die? I'll take the inflatable table, thanks
The other option is to stay at home and at most just order the foods and drinks instead of going to an establishment where the bumper table doesn’t even guarantee safety.
The sci-fi literature that describes future societies going full virtual and full tech, we're approaching this kind of future. However, the cause is not laziness, comfort, or politics - it was a freaking virus!
You are right! I get a lot of "The Naked Sun" vibes from the situation, i wish we had realistic holograms and robot servants like on Solaria tho
Why does the movie Ultraviolet come to mind
Because it should remind everyone of Ultraviolet. Or a ton of others lmao.
It's temporary. Why can't people even understand that?
Apparently, while it is temporary (it says the pandemic might last 2 years), the impact will forever change many aspects of the way of life, economy and politics.
Welcome to the USA, where making money and corporate profits are more important than people's lives.
All over the world businesses are reopening though.
It depends on the death and infection rates, if they are going up or down, on the healthcare system, the number of available specialized healthcare workers, the number of available beds, availability of tests, availability of special equipment, on the number of masks available (both for healthcare workers and citizens), on the discipline of the citizens and many other things if it's safe to open up again and it's too dangerous to reopen everything at once, you need a plan (which parts of economy and social life are going to reopen first and under which rules) and you need new rules for everything (every store etc. needs to work out a new plan, a new concept and need new equipment like markers, disinfectant etc). In short: it's much more complicated to reopen than to close
True, but it's dangerous to reopen too soon and you need a plan (which is -after the virus is more or less contained and under control- often easier to do on a smaller scale and it helps to look and act on a local level - one part of the country and one part of a state might be more ready and safer to reopen than another that needs more time)
@Sean: I'm not sure what you mean. If we can start to continue our lives while keeping the spread to a low enough level so as not to overwhelm the health care system, than whose lives will be lost? We can't lock down 100% for 2 years until everyone can be vaccinated. We'd have mass starvation, wars, etc. by then. These photos are really encouraging, because it shows the US is going to be innovative like other countries. I've seen many pictures like this from other countries up to now, and this is the first I've seen from the US. We have to be innovative.
I agree, but this country can't even provide PPE to those who need it most. Doctors, nurses, 1st responders, and anyone else caring for the infected. Even something as simple as swabs aren't readily available for testing and don't get me started on testing. 5 months with 4% of the population tested. Many of the tests aren't even reliable to give accurate results. We're supposed to be the most technologically advanced country in the world, working on a vaccine before we make an effort to save lives until a vaccine is made. Even worse is our illustrious president FORCING people to work in an environment where it's already known to be causing thousands of infections & hundreds of deaths in numerous states. They have to choose between a paycheck or possibly their lives so trump has an uninterrupted supply of BigMacs. This is something that happens in China or North Korea, NOT in the U.S.
A lot of people are being financially destroyed by the shutsowns. It's nice for you that you're comfortable enough to not see that, but look around you. Imagine what it's like for people who are supporting a large family and couldn't afford to have a large nest egg thanks to the prices of homes and decent health insurance, or people who started a small business last year using their own capital, etc. Corporations are the ones affected LEAST by the forced shutdowns that are lasting longer than we were told they would. And by the way, I predict there will be a 2nd spike in virus cases after we have reopened more, and then what? Are the state governments going to shut things down again? Risk causing economic depression? Do you know normal hard working people were starving, homeless, and selling their children during the Great Depression of the 1930s? Think outside of your own experience, political views, and clichés.
Paying rent, buying food, owning property and transportation and decent clothing, not depending on politicians to pay our bills indefinitely, and not throwing away our liberty, also saves people's lives.
Unfortunately this is an economic dilemma. If we have no deaths from COVID-19, then the economy will crash. If we keep the economy running at full strength, so many people are going to suffer. The hard truth that no one really wants to say is that we have to find a balance.
Only if you don't do any tests or contact tracing.
Contact tracing feels too much like a Gestapo system, a way to arrest people who are "guilty" of leaving their homes while infected asymptomatically, or creating a database of names of "the infected" that can be misused by some apes*** crazy tyrannical "elected" leader who could easily come along. So many people are just lying down and silently surrendering their liberties. We need to stand together not just against an illness, but also against the politicians who want to use ot as an excuse to gain increasing control. Familiar with the Patriot Act from the Obama administration? That was supposed to be temporary. And sure it hasn't resulted in a new Nazi work camp, but it can easily be used to ruin the life of one "betrayer" who dares to blow the whistle, at a time. Not all politicians are criminals, but some are. Hell no I don't want anyone cooperating with contact tracing. What will they do with it? Find out who they need to test and forcibly quarantine all those contacts? What happened to "self-isolation"? Quarantine by choice?
Is anyone else curios and eager to see if the birth rate goes up or down nine months to a year from now?
At Lowe's home improvement store, they have screens at the register with about a 4 inch gap at the bottom. Everything there is too big to place on the counter anyway, so the cashier has to come around with the handheld scanner and handle all of your items, then steps back to the register so you can hand them your cash.
STOP SAYING "NEW NORMAL"! This better damn well be temporary. The human race has lived through even worse pandemics several times within the last 100 years and they didn't develop permanent social distancing. It's unhealthy to live in fear of each other and the world like this, and it's unnecessary. Suicide attempts have greatly increased, and I'd guess also agoraphobia (fear of going outside) and germophobia (fear of germs) will too if this keeps up long term.
If we develop a vaccine, or the virus mutates to something less harmful, or we reduce R0 to less than one and let the virus die out, this will be temporary. If we let the virus become endemic, the way the US seems to be determined to do, and refuse to provide any income support or healthcare to people who get sick, yeah, this will be the "new normal." Can you keep your family afloat if you're incapacitated with COVID for a month? Got enough to pay the bills? Will you lose your job if you're too sick to work for too long?
A lot of the things they're already doing in Sweden! Check out what's been done there!
Not quite a good example Sweden if we look at the statistics 🤔
@Florencia, NOT better statistics - or even the same (look at worldometers); killing a bunch of their people for the sake of the economy is pure cynicism and more than chilling and NOT A GREAT example!!!. And THERE ARE countries that did better.
Sweden is a great example of how not to break the economy while having the same statistics as anywhere else - or better
The infection rate in Sweden compared to its neighbors is staggering. Time will tell if they made the right choice. Already their death toll is much higher than Finland and Norway. Sweden (3,800), Finland (300), Norway (230). I guess those lives were worth sacrificing on the altar of the Swedish economy? That is the rationale I keep hearing in the US. Never thought I'd hear it from Scandinavia.
The worst thing about "social distancing" is that it has no effect at all against the MAIN means of the virus's transmission, by people touching things, then touching their faces. And promoting "social distancing" so much makes people forget about touching things. FAIL!
No, droplets in the air are the main way, actually. There is more and more proof of that.
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USA, the place that can reopen when never closed....
The US hasn't been closed?? Damn, why have I been home for the last 10 weeks??
Maybe you haven't been going to work, but all the grocery stores, home improvement stores have been open. While I understand that you're probably having a financial crisis, that doesn't mean that people have been burdened without being able to go out.
We weren't 100% closed, but we could write a list of the things that have been closed. I'll just name a few. Schools, parks, extracurricular activities, salons, barber shops, massage spas (my husband could lose his license if he tried to go back to work currently as a Massage Therapist), libraries, malls, movie theaters, dine-in at restaurants, and well I'm tired of listing. California's governor Newsom has been repeatedly telling the press lately that "70% of California business is open, with modifications." 30% is totally closed. And the modifications hurt profits, for example the fact that grocery stores have less variety in what they carry and restaurants aren't earning tips. It's a safe bet to guess we are running an economy that is less than 70%. 60%? 50%? In school that's a failing grade. FAILING.
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Sigh... none of this is needed at all. Humans need contact in order to be immune to the little things.
Sigh....you don't understand science.
Well technically he is right. You get temporary immunity or die.
What a moron.
True. We build our immune systems by being exposed to small amounts of germs on a daily basis. Doctors talk about that. Parents who look up "is it ok that my baby ate dirt one time?" find out. Doctors say that newborn babies who get their first exposures and antibodies from their mother's body through touch and breastfeeding generally turn out healthy. I even noticed when I was a babysitter that the family whose kids got sick by far the most often was the one with a germophobe mom who kept her kids extremely clean. I wish I had some studies to share fir the people in the peanut gallery who don't believe me, but they can also look it up themselves. It IS science.
This makes me sad, this isn't a world I want to live in. I truly hope we can move away from this one day.
Adaptation is the key to survival.
Kristina Thomas, except they did. Pandemics caused such big changes in society that even now, hundreds of years later it is still visible. But this virus is not going to make this happen for that it is not lethal and dangerous enough - note I'm not saying it is not dangerous for all those who get triggered easy - I'm saying it's not dangerous enough for society to life like that forever. I think the bigger changes are going to happen within the economy where a lot of things proved to just be totally wrong, for example weekly fashion which completely got annihilated by the lockdowns. It will be tough but change often is something good.
The hinan race has made it through many pandemics and those didn't change the way people socialize. The media is using this one for sensationalism and the politicians are using it to gain power over the people. The deaths are real, but the level of fear The Powers That Be say we should have is B.S. I refuse to become a germophobe. Yes I'm being careful, but not paranoid, and I hope the whole world calms down within the next year or so. This is nothing new.
I made a similar comment but I'm just getting downvoted for it! I agree it makes me tremendously sad, I don't want to have to live in a world like this either. I really can't imagine anyone would choose to!!
I was thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, it sounds like it will be around much longer than anticipated.
No need to worry too much, in the beginning we just knew it's a new Virus and it's spreading fast, there were horror stories from some countries, so everybody feared the worst. The more time is passing the more is known about the Virus, some countries managed to do better than others. So at the moment we are learning and adapting with the general mindset being better overly save than sorry. In my country after having an initial moderate lockdown with people still being allowed to go outside as they wish but with distance and later business openings with masks things get more and more relaxed with the number of sick people decreasing the same time. So it is entirely possible that we will get over this in a not too long time. But for now we have to wait and see.
Tough shit.
Lee, One thing I like about this site is that for the most part, we can have a mature adult conversation on here. Please don't ruin that.
I used to say "remember when we could see people?" As a joke but now I don't think it's a joke anymore
Clever, innovative, some probably a lot more effective than others but this is just so sad. Who wants to live in a world like this!
Don’t know why you got downvoted. This shit is miserable and it sucks hard. I would rather stay at home than do this shit and pretend it’s safe or normal. It’s dangerous and miserable. It’s not normal, and it’s not the way things were, and it’s not the way anyone would want to live. It’s extremely sad. I hope something changes soon and the vaccine comes out, or a really effective treatment, or the virus mutates into something weaker. I’m tired of not making money and even more tired of being too scared to do anything.
Unfortunately, until a vaccine is created (and possibly longer), we can't just go back to the way we acted before. Yes, it's a complete overhaul of the way we behave in a social setting. But it's either that or staying home.
Does that mean I can't feel sad about it!! That this 'new normal' is a shitty way to raise your kids, a shitty way for humans to have to live. I didn't say it wasn't necessary, I said it was sad.
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Well bird flu and swine flu pretty much went away and I didn't take a vaccine for either of those.
If my options are "live in a world like this" or "drown from the inside as my lungs fill with fluid"....I think I will take the plastic shields.
There’s no guarantee that you wouldn’t get Covid even with these safety measures. Your other option is to just wait for the vaccine and stay your ass at home.
@Tabitha: The point isn't to keep people from getting the virus. Most of us will get it eventually. The point is to avoid us all getting it at once.
i mean your other option is to ... die? I'll take the inflatable table, thanks
The other option is to stay at home and at most just order the foods and drinks instead of going to an establishment where the bumper table doesn’t even guarantee safety.
The sci-fi literature that describes future societies going full virtual and full tech, we're approaching this kind of future. However, the cause is not laziness, comfort, or politics - it was a freaking virus!
You are right! I get a lot of "The Naked Sun" vibes from the situation, i wish we had realistic holograms and robot servants like on Solaria tho
Why does the movie Ultraviolet come to mind
Because it should remind everyone of Ultraviolet. Or a ton of others lmao.
It's temporary. Why can't people even understand that?
Apparently, while it is temporary (it says the pandemic might last 2 years), the impact will forever change many aspects of the way of life, economy and politics.
Welcome to the USA, where making money and corporate profits are more important than people's lives.
All over the world businesses are reopening though.
It depends on the death and infection rates, if they are going up or down, on the healthcare system, the number of available specialized healthcare workers, the number of available beds, availability of tests, availability of special equipment, on the number of masks available (both for healthcare workers and citizens), on the discipline of the citizens and many other things if it's safe to open up again and it's too dangerous to reopen everything at once, you need a plan (which parts of economy and social life are going to reopen first and under which rules) and you need new rules for everything (every store etc. needs to work out a new plan, a new concept and need new equipment like markers, disinfectant etc). In short: it's much more complicated to reopen than to close
True, but it's dangerous to reopen too soon and you need a plan (which is -after the virus is more or less contained and under control- often easier to do on a smaller scale and it helps to look and act on a local level - one part of the country and one part of a state might be more ready and safer to reopen than another that needs more time)
@Sean: I'm not sure what you mean. If we can start to continue our lives while keeping the spread to a low enough level so as not to overwhelm the health care system, than whose lives will be lost? We can't lock down 100% for 2 years until everyone can be vaccinated. We'd have mass starvation, wars, etc. by then. These photos are really encouraging, because it shows the US is going to be innovative like other countries. I've seen many pictures like this from other countries up to now, and this is the first I've seen from the US. We have to be innovative.
I agree, but this country can't even provide PPE to those who need it most. Doctors, nurses, 1st responders, and anyone else caring for the infected. Even something as simple as swabs aren't readily available for testing and don't get me started on testing. 5 months with 4% of the population tested. Many of the tests aren't even reliable to give accurate results. We're supposed to be the most technologically advanced country in the world, working on a vaccine before we make an effort to save lives until a vaccine is made. Even worse is our illustrious president FORCING people to work in an environment where it's already known to be causing thousands of infections & hundreds of deaths in numerous states. They have to choose between a paycheck or possibly their lives so trump has an uninterrupted supply of BigMacs. This is something that happens in China or North Korea, NOT in the U.S.
A lot of people are being financially destroyed by the shutsowns. It's nice for you that you're comfortable enough to not see that, but look around you. Imagine what it's like for people who are supporting a large family and couldn't afford to have a large nest egg thanks to the prices of homes and decent health insurance, or people who started a small business last year using their own capital, etc. Corporations are the ones affected LEAST by the forced shutdowns that are lasting longer than we were told they would. And by the way, I predict there will be a 2nd spike in virus cases after we have reopened more, and then what? Are the state governments going to shut things down again? Risk causing economic depression? Do you know normal hard working people were starving, homeless, and selling their children during the Great Depression of the 1930s? Think outside of your own experience, political views, and clichés.
Paying rent, buying food, owning property and transportation and decent clothing, not depending on politicians to pay our bills indefinitely, and not throwing away our liberty, also saves people's lives.
Unfortunately this is an economic dilemma. If we have no deaths from COVID-19, then the economy will crash. If we keep the economy running at full strength, so many people are going to suffer. The hard truth that no one really wants to say is that we have to find a balance.
Only if you don't do any tests or contact tracing.
Contact tracing feels too much like a Gestapo system, a way to arrest people who are "guilty" of leaving their homes while infected asymptomatically, or creating a database of names of "the infected" that can be misused by some apes*** crazy tyrannical "elected" leader who could easily come along. So many people are just lying down and silently surrendering their liberties. We need to stand together not just against an illness, but also against the politicians who want to use ot as an excuse to gain increasing control. Familiar with the Patriot Act from the Obama administration? That was supposed to be temporary. And sure it hasn't resulted in a new Nazi work camp, but it can easily be used to ruin the life of one "betrayer" who dares to blow the whistle, at a time. Not all politicians are criminals, but some are. Hell no I don't want anyone cooperating with contact tracing. What will they do with it? Find out who they need to test and forcibly quarantine all those contacts? What happened to "self-isolation"? Quarantine by choice?
Is anyone else curios and eager to see if the birth rate goes up or down nine months to a year from now?
At Lowe's home improvement store, they have screens at the register with about a 4 inch gap at the bottom. Everything there is too big to place on the counter anyway, so the cashier has to come around with the handheld scanner and handle all of your items, then steps back to the register so you can hand them your cash.
STOP SAYING "NEW NORMAL"! This better damn well be temporary. The human race has lived through even worse pandemics several times within the last 100 years and they didn't develop permanent social distancing. It's unhealthy to live in fear of each other and the world like this, and it's unnecessary. Suicide attempts have greatly increased, and I'd guess also agoraphobia (fear of going outside) and germophobia (fear of germs) will too if this keeps up long term.
If we develop a vaccine, or the virus mutates to something less harmful, or we reduce R0 to less than one and let the virus die out, this will be temporary. If we let the virus become endemic, the way the US seems to be determined to do, and refuse to provide any income support or healthcare to people who get sick, yeah, this will be the "new normal." Can you keep your family afloat if you're incapacitated with COVID for a month? Got enough to pay the bills? Will you lose your job if you're too sick to work for too long?
A lot of the things they're already doing in Sweden! Check out what's been done there!
Not quite a good example Sweden if we look at the statistics 🤔
@Florencia, NOT better statistics - or even the same (look at worldometers); killing a bunch of their people for the sake of the economy is pure cynicism and more than chilling and NOT A GREAT example!!!. And THERE ARE countries that did better.
Sweden is a great example of how not to break the economy while having the same statistics as anywhere else - or better
The infection rate in Sweden compared to its neighbors is staggering. Time will tell if they made the right choice. Already their death toll is much higher than Finland and Norway. Sweden (3,800), Finland (300), Norway (230). I guess those lives were worth sacrificing on the altar of the Swedish economy? That is the rationale I keep hearing in the US. Never thought I'd hear it from Scandinavia.
The worst thing about "social distancing" is that it has no effect at all against the MAIN means of the virus's transmission, by people touching things, then touching their faces. And promoting "social distancing" so much makes people forget about touching things. FAIL!
No, droplets in the air are the main way, actually. There is more and more proof of that.
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USA, the place that can reopen when never closed....
The US hasn't been closed?? Damn, why have I been home for the last 10 weeks??
Maybe you haven't been going to work, but all the grocery stores, home improvement stores have been open. While I understand that you're probably having a financial crisis, that doesn't mean that people have been burdened without being able to go out.
We weren't 100% closed, but we could write a list of the things that have been closed. I'll just name a few. Schools, parks, extracurricular activities, salons, barber shops, massage spas (my husband could lose his license if he tried to go back to work currently as a Massage Therapist), libraries, malls, movie theaters, dine-in at restaurants, and well I'm tired of listing. California's governor Newsom has been repeatedly telling the press lately that "70% of California business is open, with modifications." 30% is totally closed. And the modifications hurt profits, for example the fact that grocery stores have less variety in what they carry and restaurants aren't earning tips. It's a safe bet to guess we are running an economy that is less than 70%. 60%? 50%? In school that's a failing grade. FAILING.
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Sigh... none of this is needed at all. Humans need contact in order to be immune to the little things.
Sigh....you don't understand science.
Well technically he is right. You get temporary immunity or die.
What a moron.
True. We build our immune systems by being exposed to small amounts of germs on a daily basis. Doctors talk about that. Parents who look up "is it ok that my baby ate dirt one time?" find out. Doctors say that newborn babies who get their first exposures and antibodies from their mother's body through touch and breastfeeding generally turn out healthy. I even noticed when I was a babysitter that the family whose kids got sick by far the most often was the one with a germophobe mom who kept her kids extremely clean. I wish I had some studies to share fir the people in the peanut gallery who don't believe me, but they can also look it up themselves. It IS science.