Covid-19 lockdown check-in

[Josquius]

Evening before last I popped into a supermarket, first time in a week; seems that mask wearing is really dropping off, I counted 6 masked customers, incl.me, out of at least a couple of dozen, so about a 25% rate. 

Its interesting how it differs by area.
I go to one nearby shopping area- firmly working class area.... No masks apart from on a few elderly people.
I go to another, in a weird place in between a working class area, a non-working class area, and a rather more middle class area...everyone has masks.
In a posh area...again no masks

[11B4V]

Here in the red neck part of Washington, I see only a few folks not wearing masks in the supermarkets and The Wal-Mart.

[Admiral Yi]

Where are you Before?  Spokane?

[KRonn]

In Massachusetts it's pretty mixed mask wearing, about half wearing and half not. I'm actually a bit surprised at how many are not wearing.

[Tonitrus]

Where are you Before?  Spokane?

Nah, he is west-side WA redneck.  It's not all just Seattle.

[11B4V]

Where are you Before?  Spokane?

Mason County, Western Washington.


Those are hillbillies and weirdos out east.

[11B4V]

Think Loren Culp  for the East side hillbillies.

[Syt]

Went to my corner café for the first time since the lockdown last year. You need to prove vaccination or that you've been tested negative on entry. The checks were ... very cursory. E.g. the waiter just looked at the QR code on my app but didn't verify that I was the person listed in the document. Restaurants are supposed to take contact details from patrons and store them for 2 weeks for contact tracing purposes. The way they handle it is a QR code on the table that links to a registration website. As far as I could tell I was the only one doing this.

The place was busy between 9 and 10 but not as much as it normally would be. There's usually a mix of tourists and locals (often professionals meeting up in the café). Few locals today, and more tourists (Eastern Europeans, Germans, Swiss, French, from what I heard).

[Maladict]

I found France to be very strict, always asking for a QR code when entering a public space or transit. And many people wearing masks on the streets (they don't have to). In Germany, I wasn't asked once in hotels or restaurants, nor on the trains. A very counterintuitive experience 

[Syt]

So the official guidance here now says that risk groups (including me) should get a third shot 6 months after the second, everyone else nine months later. Guess I will need to get a 3rd shot on Christmas Eve, then.

[Duque de Bragança]

I found France to be very strict, always asking for a QR code when entering a public space or transit. And many people wearing masks on the streets (they don't have to). In Germany, I wasn't asked once in hotels or restaurants, nor on the trains. A very counterintuitive experience 

OTOH, they don't nor can't ask for IDs in restaurants so it's very easy to get in with a fake QR code or the one from a friend.
Some really clever ones even bough fake ones for 300 €  or 

[Tamas]

Somehow I managed to ignore that in addition  to the Amber Country specific stuff we must show negative tests to be allowed boarding our plane back to England. Only noticed it today morning. Ran off for PCR test and in theory the results should arrive in time but barely, and if they are positive we can't enter England despite being fully vaccinated and in my case a citizen. Ridiculous.

[mongers]

Somehow I managed to ignore that in addition  to the Amber Country specific stuff we must show negative tests to be allowed boarding our plane back to England. Only noticed it today morning. Ran off for PCR test and in theory the results should arrive in time but barely, and if they are positive we can't enter England despite being fully vaccinated and in my case a citizen. Ridiculous.

Hope it works out OK for you and family.

Otherwise we'll miss you.   

[KRonn]

An Arizona friend of mine and his wife both got Covid but fortunately only minor symptoms. My friend has diabetes so he worried more about Covid, but both are vaccinated so that must have kept down the symptoms.

A woman I work with, who sits across the aisle from me, was with a friend of hers who found out she had Covid almost a week after they got together. My coworker worked all that week before finding out her friend had Covid. I was only in the office one day that week but several of us stayed out for a couple weeks, worked from home. None of us got any symptoms.

[Zanza]

I found France to be very strict, always asking for a QR code when entering a public space or transit. And many people wearing masks on the streets (they don't have to). In Germany, I wasn't asked once in hotels or restaurants, nor on the trains. A very counterintuitive experience 

At least for a while (I think they changed or will change soon?) the rule was they only need to ask at a certain level of infections and we were below that level since June. I understood that will change now with rising case numbers.