Shopping in the Morning

[dewline]

Inconsistency in retail settings is going to make people die too early.

I saw inconsistency at the Metro grocery this morning, not half an hour ago, among both customers and staff. Because while most were masking up, some were not. As expected, yes, but that still doesn't make it right and proper.

Yes, Dwight, there are Convoy Crowd people lurking in Orléans too. There always were.

I was considering visiting Linen Chest at St. Laurent Mall this afternoon. Not going to do it now.

(It was a competition in my brain between using "AUGH!" and "Virus Don't Care" for this posting. Tight competition.)

Comments

[lilysea]

Yeah, everything I've read about COVID,

from COVID attacking t-cells

to COVID putting people at greater risk of dementia

makes me go

AAARARGGH why are people not taking this more seriously????

[dewline]

I've filed a complaint about this with metrosurvey-dot-ca. Every receipt from those stores has a survey code number to log in. So I used it for this complaint.

Will see if enough other people do similarly to have enough impact in the direction we want.

[cmcmck]

Are they required to?

Not the case here any more.

[dewline]

There are specific settings in which Ontarians are required to keep masks on.

For additional context:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/local-businesses-masking-continues-ottawa-1.6391465
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid19-ont-masks-1.6385293
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid19-ontario-march-19-mask-mandate-to-lift-monday-1.6389220
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid19-ontario-march-9-mask-mandates-1.6378148

[jsburbidge]

At a more upscale grocery store locally somewhere between one in four and one in five custoners were without masks. All the staff I saw were masked.

At work, for those back in the office - not back yet because of construction - the expressed policy is that individuals are allowed to go maskless but encouraged to wear masks (this is while moving around; it's been possible 5o work, distanced, without masks for a while).

Risk assessment varies widely between individuals.