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[shadowkat]

I kind of want to do a poll. Because, I've been wondering...does anyone have COVID-19? Does anyone's family or friends? Do you know people who have died from it?

[I know people who have had it, and people who have died. No one close to me has died, more distant, and an old guy at church who I'd gotten used to seeing and saying hello to.)

Is everyone in quarantine? To what extent? Are you opening up next week or have you done so already?

Do you feel this weirdness, where some people are living in the world of COVID and others seem to be oblivious...wandering about as if it's not an issue?

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[cjlasky7]

As of this moment, no one in my family has Covid (knock wood). I'm not in quarantine, as I'm going into my branch at Borough Park (or the Kings Highway branch) two or three times a week. I walk the dog and go shopping around the neighborhood.

[Borough Park is mostly back to pre-Covid activity. It scares me to walk around there. I don't see that branch opening any time soon.]

My wife and son are either teaching or taking lessons via remote learning. So they aren't leaving the house for most of the day.

In recent weeks, we've been taking longer trips as a family. Brooklyn Market, Target--and we're planning to go to Home Depot for a new smoke alarm. We all wear masks and gloves, so we take no chances.

It's....tolerable. We're ok. But we do miss movies. And zoos. And museums.

And friends.

[shadowkat]

Are the extended family members who tested positive, okay?

I hear you on Borough Park. I am avoiding the area, and started getting food deliveries to avoid the FoodTown and stores that border it, not that most of the people in that area use those stores - Foodtown tends to serve Kesington more. I figure Greenwood Cemetery is safe though - and it is.

Envy the longer trips. Particularly the ones to Brooklyn Market and Target. (Where is Brooklyn Market?)

Drive-in movie theaters are apparently coming back. I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of outdoor movie theater going this summer.

[cjlasky7]

My niece's extended family (and my ex-brother-in-law and his
new wife) have not demonstrated symptoms. I think they're all out of the woods. They were lucky. (My niece's obgyn says the baby is fine, but I'm still nervous.)

Our local Brooklyn Market is on 81st and 3rd Avenue, a short car trip. Local Target is 64th and 17th Avenue (ditto). We can do a short hop by car, "armor up", do our business, then get back in the car and go home. We don't have to deal with public transportation or a lot of pedestrian traffic.

I would advise everyone to avoid Borough Park until the virus bottoms out completely. I have to clear the ATM for my branch, but the neighborhood's general disregard for safety makes me feel like I'm navigating a minefield until I get inside. I don't think I'm going back to a regular schedule there until July, mid-June at the earliest.

[shadowkat]

I'm not really going into it. I go into Greenwood Cemetery, which borders it but people are abiding by the safety measures because it's required, Food Town - which is following safety measures (required), and Wallgreens (required) which follows them. But all of that is along MacDonald, and Caton Roads and the far side of it. I think your bank is further in - and further south. Greenwood is more in Kesington and Windsor Terrace, as is Food Town for that matter.

[shadowkat]

Relieved that your neice's family and extended family are okay. And didn't get sick.

COVID is weird.

Sounds like your doing a lot of stuff by car. Lots of people appear to be, or so I've noticed. Although traffic is still low.