My whole observation of "virus beware" on media, and in person as a retail customer falls into two categories: "dont really care" and 100% devoted.
Its like there is no in between, so it makes the 100% 'ers go over the top making up for those who seem to be clueless or not caring. The slackers are adding to the anxiety and fueling the craziness.
***** If everyone practiced good "germ-phobia" like they're being told to do, this would make a much bigger positive "dent" in lowering transmission. Its not hard to do. But some are to lackadaisical, don't care or somehow are still clueless about
this. *****
My work had a meeting on this, and we have a protocol in place (its not retail)- yet Im calling people out on a regular basis who are ignoring it (the same geeky "geniuses" with B/O or the big ego types) and I dont care what their company "level " is- they can kiss my arse or go home.
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Shopping for food , regular groceries in several nearby towns:
1) Target store is on their "A" game as well as a few health food stores. I witness multiple cleaning "teams" on the carts, doors, freezer doors, checkout registers. These stores also stereotypical have a middle to higher income customer.
Some of the customers at these stores even parted distance as I went down the isle, its a little wider in those stores too. Some even had disposable gloves on. They were trying.
2)Enter Walmart and Aldi- no extra effort other than Walmart had EMPTY disinfectant wipes by the carts, NO extra Cleaning people. Aldi was no better. No cleaning product avail for customer use, Aldi is already minimally staffed at every
location and during this "event" no one was cleaning. Only extra measure at Aldi- no cash allowed at checkout, cards only. I asked how often the card machine was disinfected- answer: only three times a day. LOL
One shopper was keeping the 6 ft distance and one asked another to space apart at checkout(!), the guy looked confused.
Most customer at these discount retailers were carrying on as usual.
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I could easily make a general stereotypical assumption of these two customer bases and how they relate to this "health crisis" in these two types of grocery stores.
For the record, yes, I shop all of them as some do.
Per TV and radio mention, the couple more "classy" grocery stores are holding the first
opening hour only for the higher virus risk customers. Good for them, hard to police this though.
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Note: Keep disinfectant gel in your car and/or mixture of 75% "rubbing alcohol" (from pharmacy) to 25% water in an old soap dispenser. The water dilution is need to slow the alcohol evaporation to 15-30 seconds. This kills the virus on contact.
Post Edited (astroman) : 3/19/2020 9:30:13 PM (GMT-6)