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Sue's avatar

I still eat a lot of dirt. Keeps me healthy..ha! Forester by trade and profession, with a tendency more so towards trees than people, and a proclivity toward conservation. Hm. The things I see in the ‘natural’ world…

This obsession with hand sanitizer has got to stop! I do notice, however many people are still willingly wearing masks…a significant number of them are no longer grasping at the sacred bottle as soon as they venture ‘in.’

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Sue's avatar

Perhaps this is merely a reflection though of my oh Canada, though I may hardly speak to anything outside my range of travel, which is currently limited to about the middle third of BC. More stores as well (gas stations, perominately) are seemingly losing their ‘must wear mask to enter’ signs, but it still an excruciatingly slow process. Everyone I meet not wearing one, I smile at and am genuinely pleased to see. Makes for a good day 😊

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Perplexity's avatar

Sounds like a good choice of habitat, Sue!

Our family lives in a county where the health department has issued mask mandates for all schools (public and private), but at this point not for stores, walking around outdoors, etc. So it's a mixed bag, with about half of the people masking in grocery stores, at this point.

Everything changes if you've been unwise (or unlucky) enough to be subjected to a COVID test and found guilty. Then you, any co-habitants, and anyone they can weasel out with their 'contact tracing' procedures, become the focus of their 'benevolent' attentions.

I can attest that the county (and state, at that point) health department involvement was a chilling and terrifying experience, for me. Any illusion of having privacy in our lives has been shattered.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Can you just refuse to get tested? Or make sure that you avoid that process. I've seen enough stuff on the non-cotton swabs they're using to make sure to avoid it here.

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