More semi-good news! The curfew will be lifted a week from today, so I can go back to working evenings, which I am really happy about. That part is awesome, but they are also loosening restrictions against the advice of the Outbreak Management Team. Our cases aren't going down, but they have decided to open up restaurants for outdoor dining, open stores at limited capacity without an appointment, and letting colleges and universities open back up. The stores I'm ok with...they've been opened for weeks at limited capacity, but you had to make an appointment and had limited time. It wasn't really handy, because you don't know how much time you'll need and one person only needs 5 minutes to return something and another needs 30 minutes to try stuff on. So the store might be completely empty, but they couldn't let anyone else in because they didn't have an appointment. I had 3 stores to go to the other day and had to make appointments 30-45 minutes apart and then I was early to one and had to sit outside and wait for 20 minutes for my appointment at another store. The capacity will remain the same, so it will run more smoothly without having the time limits. It will be first come, first served. But I am not sure it's a good idea to open up restaurants. And we're still behind on our vaccinations. I think they should wait on opening restaurants until we're on track with that. The curfew needs to go....it's counter productive the way they have it set up. Someone from my own household isn't allowed to pick me up from work, but I am allowed to take public transportation that would put me in contact with a lot more people outside of my household. It's meant to keep people from having contact with people outside of their homes by keeping them at home in the evening rather than getting together with friends. But what people are doing is just going to friends' homes before the curfew starts and staying the night there. So they still get together and party, but they start earlier and just don't go home. So the curfew forces working people to have MORE contact than they had with others, and it doesn't prevent the social gatherings it aims to prevent. So it needs to go.
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