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Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by sandworm101 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:10AM (#22862933)
I'm in BC, Canada. People are talking about our lockdown going too well. The hospitals are not overwealmed like those in New York. Infections are under control, mainly contained to care homes. But you don't get to herd immunity if the virus does not spread. Vaccines are a year or more away. Holding the lockdown that long would devastate a generation. The government isn't saying it but people are deciding to head out on their own. Outside of urban centers, this Easter weekend looked almost normal.

I was at the grocery store today. Maybe 1 in 10 people had some form of mask. Tomorrow I go to work, where we aren't using masks either. We never did. I have some homemade masks but have never felt the need. There is virus in our area but it just isn't spreading at nearly the predicted rate given our relaxed "lockdown".

Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by JMTQp8lwXL on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:29AM (#22862997)
You can't enter my grocery store without a face covering. I didn't see anyone strictly enforcing it, but there was a >80% compliance rate, based off what I saw.
Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by benibela on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:49AM (#22866689)
In Germany you cannot enter most groceries stores without a shopping cart. It did not used to be that way, they made shopping carts mandatory to stop covid.