A week-ish ago, the AZ governor decided that he'd leave the "mask on" requirement up to the individual cities. Mesa, the city where I live and part of the sprawling "Phoenix metro area," is a "mask on" city.
Grocery store update:
* Restrictions on cleaning supplies. One item per shopper. Stock is at maybe 25%
* Restrictions on hand soap and hand sanitizer. One of either per shopper. Stock is at about 150% for hand sanitizer, albeit expensive. Liquid soap is at 10%.
* Paper products aren't at 100%, but they're now back on the shelves. Maybe at 25%.
* The cashiers have plastic guards over their checkout stations.
* The six foot "social distancing" is still in effect and grocery stores now have decals on the floor every six feet.
* Safeway/Albertsons, which is the store literally around the corner, but is too expensive for big shopping, has lanes in the aisles. Like, aisle 1 is "down the lane" and aisle 2 is "up the lane."
* Meat prices are 50% or so higher than before Covid19. I think it was $6 for pork per pound and $9 for beef. Chicken is also high, but I try to buy that in bulk and when on sale/
Oddly, the deli department didn't have roast beef, today. The worker I talked to said that it comes in every other week.
My grandmother-in-law, who was a couple years shy of 100, died during the second month of lockdown. We haven't had a funeral/celebration/whatever. She was a nice and fun person, so I look forward to a time we can do that. Additionally, my mom is having some other non-Covid medical issues and I'd like to go out and see her, but both of us live in very high-risk states (AZ and NY) and both of us are high-risk people. I have a plane ticket credit and I hope I'll be able to go out to see her sometime this year.
The company I work for put all its staff on either a couple weeks furlough or a wage reduction at about the second month of lockdown. That's going to be lightened next month. They've also starting opening some offices.
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On the very bright side, I've heard a lot of online recording projects, as Jim mentions. As I'm an anime geek, I was very happy to find Yoko Kanno got together some of the musicians (+ some new folks) who played music for the 22 year old, groundbreaking anime
Cowboy Bebop.
It's good stuff. The Cowboy Bebop anime is now ad free on Hulu, too.