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I'm live some miles away from a small rural town. Honestly, other than the masks being worn on the few occasions I've been out in the past few months and a couple family members being laid off, I wouldn't know anything was going on if I haven't been reading about it. So, yeah, feel pretty safe thus far.
I was just thinking today how deeply grateful I am for my life. I live in the country near a very small town, and here all is peaceful and beautiful and calm and joyful (except for marauding raccoons!)
My heart goes out to people who have to live in urban areas or in rural areas where sickness and sociocultural ugliness is more common than it is here.
I think it's extremely naive to believe that just because we live in a small town we are somehow going to be insulated and safe from social unrest.
The longer lawlessness is allowed to go on, the farther out it will spread from the cities.
This thread is discussing safety from the COVID-19 virus, not the events stemming from George Floyd's death.
I feel pretty safe from the effects of both. When COVID first broke I was concerned that the people who can't go a week without making a trip to a larger city to buy crap they really don't need would bring it back with them, but that hasn't been the case. We've had a grand total of 11 cases in the county, 8 early on and three more recently. Currently we have one or two active cases, no fatalities, most have recovered at home with just one being sent to a larger hospital for treatment.
Maybe safER, but not safe. It is easier to practice distancing here. But we are getting hordes of tourists from elsewhere, and our county commissioners seem to have dropped the ball on health precautions. That’s putting it nicely. So for a while longer, even though we would love to support local restaurants by dining in, we are sticking with takeout. There is a hardware store I normally like but refuse to go into now, as they soon got known for being a no-mask place. Not sure if it was a policy or just staff and customers ignoring precautions because their “freedoms” took precedence over community health.
No man is an island, unless he is an island that nobody else can get near.
Maybe safER, but not safe. It is easier to practice distancing here. But we are getting hordes of tourists from elsewhere, and our county commissioners seem to have dropped the ball on health precautions. That’s putting it nicely. So for a while longer, even though we would love to support local restaurants by dining in, we are sticking with takeout. There is a hardware store I normally like but refuse to go into now, as they soon got known for being a no-mask place. Not sure if it was a policy or just staff and customers ignoring precautions because their “freedoms” took precedence over community health.
No man is an island, unless he is an island that nobody else can get near.
No store in my local town requires a mask. My wife and I, and most that we know, don't wear masks anywhere but work and Menards. Every place else, including the chiropractor's office, hasn't required it.
Finally saw my 90 year old grandmother and 65 year old aunt and both said they haven't been staying home during this whole thing either - except from church, but that's because they church was like the rest around here - which was at-home services until recently.
Where I live, out in a very rural county, in a very low population upper Midwest state, since this started, there have been 9 reported cases. And not all live in this county, that’s just where their drivers license said they live. So I have only see a couple of old people wearing masks, stores are open, but they put up plexiglass at the cashier. But not every store. So not much has changed at all. The farmers still get together for coffee at the little country gas station every morning. No social distancing there. And as far as riots, closest has been 500 miles away from this area. Not much reason to riot out here anyway, everyone looks the same and has the same “culture”. Diversity is for city boys.
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