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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm walking/running around the neighborhood a LOT these days. I've noticed that a lot of other people are too. Initially, I'd go to the park about a mile away, but that was soon too crowded to safely be able to get away from people, so I'm sticking to the residential streets.
I've noticed that everyone seems to be acknowledging each other a lot more than before times. People stop to ask about the dogs more (than usual). People smile as they pass. An older lady got off the sidewalk and into the middle of the street the other day as she saw me coming, and when we passed, she gave me a bright big smile. I think it's sort of an attempt to acknowledge that we're doing weird shit in the name of this stupid situation. And to have SOME human connection, even if fleeting.
Most of the neighborhood facebook page is dedicated to hunting down paper towels.
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we are a major airport gateway into Asia and Europe so we might be a few days ahead of you?
There is a thread about whether runners should be wearing masks. Mind you this is a single family home community. I ran today and was not within 10 yards of anyone the whole time. But one poster explained "if you are out without gloves and a mask and you get the virus on your hands and then you touch a fence, and then someone else touches the fence in the same place, you've spread it." Lady might have a PhD in virology for all I know, but she doesn't understand running and the typical occurrence of a need to touch fences. I will say, that we all do agree this fence touching is wrong though.
