Already seeing the effects of this bullshit up in Canada too. gas station clerk was maskless today even though we’ve only hit like 40% first dose vaccinations in Canada, almost no 2nd dose.
This is one of those jobs that immediately struck me as a 24/7 typhoid mary. Most people going into a convenience store are rushing in after touching unsanitised common surfaces at the pump. They're from many different areas and some are breaking quarantine at one of the stops they have to make. Lots of cash exchange, rushed bathroom visits, and impulse buys that someone puts back after touching. The clerks are so devalued that they don't care. Just a perfect storm of things that make me wary of supermarkets in a condensed form.
In the Rockies you've got major interstates running alongside and through the mountains as well as isolated mountain communities that have to drive an hour or more to the nearest real hospital. I've seen mask-free gas stations along those interstates in/next to cities with major outbreaks. At one point I drove an hour and a half through a canyon that's semi-inaccessible for half the year to get to a town outdoorsmen frequent. Zero masks at either of the gas stations or the grocery, chuds flowing in by the hundreds and having illegal mass gatherings nearby before meeting in town.
I wonder if I'd be driven crazy faster as an epidemiologist or a climate scientist.
This is one of those jobs that immediately struck me as a 24/7 typhoid mary. Most people going into a convenience store are rushing in after touching unsanitised common surfaces at the pump. They're from many different areas and some are breaking quarantine at one of the stops they have to make. Lots of cash exchange, rushed bathroom visits, and impulse buys that someone puts back after touching. The clerks are so devalued that they don't care. Just a perfect storm of things that make me wary of supermarkets in a condensed form.
In the Rockies you've got major interstates running alongside and through the mountains as well as isolated mountain communities that have to drive an hour or more to the nearest real hospital. I've seen mask-free gas stations along those interstates in/next to cities with major outbreaks. At one point I drove an hour and a half through a canyon that's semi-inaccessible for half the year to get to a town outdoorsmen frequent. Zero masks at either of the gas stations or the grocery, chuds flowing in by the hundreds and having illegal mass gatherings nearby before meeting in town.
I wonder if I'd be driven crazy faster as an epidemiologist or a climate scientist.