I dunno. This whole thing is nuts...I live in Florida, where none of this stuff is required state-wide, but individual cities and counties have their own indoor restrictions, although enforcement usually depends on the business in question. We had only a relatively brief restriction on indoor dining, and now many restaurants in my town(s), Jacksonville and St. Augustine, have gone back to 100% occupancy, and all of our businesses are open. The only group not working is public school teachers, who, despite the fact that our Catholic, other religious and most private schools are open and the teachers are not dropping dead at their desks, refuse to return to work (because, according to their union, “DeSantis is sending them to their deaths”).
The big problem is the young people. They not only wear masks outdoors, now they’re wearing two masks, sometimes with a plastic face shield. And even though virtually all of the over 65 population has been vaccinated, most of them twice, that apparently is not enough to calm the Millenials down and they keep telling Granny that she’s going to die if they breathe in her presence. Therefore she has to be locked up. Most of the nuttiest pro-mask, pro-lockdown population is composed of people 40 and younger, probably the vast majority with one or two college degrees.
They really drank the Kool Aid, but of course these people have been brought up on leftist TV and big tech hysteria. But how are we going to deprogram them? Even when their own teenage children are committing suicide out of fear and despair and isolation, they perkily keep defending this insanity.
I think it may really have gotten to the point where grandparents have to tell their grandchildren they have come to realize the cold, hard, ugly truth, which is their grandchildren really don’t care about them and are loving the excuse not to see them. So now grandma and grandpa are moving on and will only pay attention to and include in the will, those grandchildren (if they are lucky enough to have any) who do care, great nieces and nephews who do care, similar age children of their friends, or the teenager in the house five houses down who has stopped and talked to them like a normal person.