It was warm enough yesterday for jeans and t-shirts, no jacket required. I was finally feeling well enough for a walk. Unfortunately, everyone and their brother was out on the sidewalks, clustering around the doors of newly re-opened cafes that were not allowing more than one person inside at a time and, thus, blocking the sidewalks. We were out for over an hour trying to run errands and saw exactly two people wearing masks, out of what must have been a few hundred people. One of them was a person at one of the cafes (Chai Ovna is open Sunday afternoons now for take-away tea). Lots of standing around in groups chattering away. Yeah, there's absolutely no social distancing going on here. It wasn't much better at the grocery store. Markings on the floor, and nobody paying any attention to them. Thankfully I was able to go in and grab some milk, use the self-check, and be out in less than five minutes. Won't be going over to Great Western or Byres Road again for a while unless I have no other option. I'd happily go back to Chai Ovna, but it's running a gauntlet to get there, so unless it's a chilly day when fewer people will be out I don't guess we can.
The Botanic Garden was full - people roasting to a lovely shade of radioactive purple, children running around enjoying themselves (through the flower beds of course, and people allowing their dogs to do the same off-leash or on a leash twenty feet long), and joggers running by so closely that one actually bumped into the Daughter as we were walking. We sat on a bench under a tree to cool off in the shade for a bit and try to enjoy an ice cream. There was a hop-scotch grid chalked on the pavement about three feet from the bench. (It's been there for weeks.) A family with three young school-age kids and a pram (none of the family in masks) came along and the mum encouraged her screaming brats to play hop-scotch. One of the little darlins was coughing like a three-pack-a-day smoker, too. No covering of mouth when coughing, no instruction by either parent to do so. All we could do was hitch up our masks and leave.
What a bunch of inconsiderate barbarians!
You'd think people would have learned something by now?
We have.
