What oh what could it be?
Won’t someone please think of the people who need to go to Whole Foods EVERY DAY??
WOW, just imagine, she and her husband are not free to ignore the rules during a pandemic, WHERE IS OUR PRECIOUS LIBERTY?
Especially when the total deaths are 69 and will never go any higher because that’s how this works.
Of course she is asking WHY, she cares about our precious freedom to infect each other, MAKEAMERICAGREATAGAIN
No, see, it’s not fair because going to that store every day has rendered her immune from Covid-19. I think that’s how it works.
She should come to Nebraska; half the store wasn’t wearing masks, and no one called them over, because OUR REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR WON’T PUT US ON STRINGENT RESTRICTIONS. On the other hand, Whole Foods is in Lincoln (they may have one in Omaha, too, but I don’t spend much time in Omaha; too far), and Lincoln is a shut down city. Technically our county has been shut down, but with so much non-shutdownedness it might as well not be. And our county, our smallish county, is third in the state for COVID deaths. The next county north, about 20 miles from here, is second. We BOTH have more deaths than Lincoln, which is a much larger city. See what an early shutdown could do?
I wish I could get masks. They are totally nonexistent at retail here (Ontario Canada), and online prices are ludicrous. I have tried making my own but data on the efficacy of home made cloth masks is mixed to say the least. Plus a clothvmask should not be re-used without laundering, and should be treated as hazardous until laundered. I really doubt that the improvised masks I see on people shopping are treated properly.
Paper masks – ie N95 – can not be laundered.
It seems to come down to that masks might help reduce the spread of virus from a contagious person, but are nearly useless for preventing the wearer’s infection if they encounter airborne virus.
In Canada and the USA there is zero data on the infection rate in the general population, there has been no public virus or antibody testing done to get an estimate of infection spread. Confirmed cases and deaths counts are probably accurate but we know symptom-free people can be infected and contagious. Yet only symptomatic people and health care workers – plus maybe seniors in care homes with confirmed cases – are eligible for testing so the general population infection rate is unknown, and will remain unknowable until wide testing is done.
According to something I read the other day at a medically-informed source (the identity of which I don’t remember), makeshift masks aren’t particularly hazardous between wearing and laundering, because cloth isn’t all that hospitable to the virus. They should be laundered, certainly, but it needn’t be after every use however brief. So I’ve been using one when I have to get milk or mail something to my employer.