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Originally Posted by DonnaNi4os
As the governor begins to loosen the reigns, I believe a large number of people will have a false sense of security and safety. Make no mistake, the number of cases right here in The Villages and throughout Florida is continuing to rise daily. So, before you get back to your life as you knew it before COVID-19, I beg you to consider the healthcare workers. Have you thought about which hospital you would go to if you would require hospitalization? Have you considered the first responders, nurses and other healthcare providers and their families? Perhaps another few weeks of self-isolation and selflessness might be the best idea. I know that all of us want to go back to life as we knew it. You may be longing to go back to the squares, but none of us want to go back to square one. So I beseech you, consider your fellow man.
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I don't think we'll get "back" to what we had, completely, any time soon. Not even if we re-open things. Too many of us are reluctant to return completely, because too many of us understand the risks - and have more to lose than perhaps other people.
However, I would like to see some changes in the restrictions. Some more strict than before, which would ease things up for some looser elsewhere.
For instance - a concerted effort by ALL the stores in the squares to ENFORCE social distancing rules. If a customer can't manage to keep his distance, then he is no longer welcome to shop there - until such time as he learns how to comply with the new rules of the store.
For instance - ALL customers must wear a mask or other face covering. Anyone who refuses - is not welcome into the store. It has to be enforced.
For instance - capacity limits based on the square footage on the floor where the customers are able to go. Not based on total square footage including the store-rooms in the back.
If it's 1 person for every 24 square feet (that's 6 feet in any direction) then that's how it is. If that means one-way aisles, then that's what it means. And customers would be REQUIRED to obey those rules, or be turned away.
Your toilet paper is not more important than my life. And the same should be true in ANY store, with ANY product. For the forseeable future. Until. Until it is safe to do otherwise.
I'd be fine with opening stores back up, re-opening the pools, re-opening the sports courts - IF we can be assured that stores, rec centers, and other businesses would comply with these inconveniences of safety, and enforce the same upon their customers.
As long as I can go to target and see that MOST customers have no masks, have no respect for the 6-foot rule, that there's no one cleaning the shopping carts, that kids are walking in the middle of the aisles making it impossible for anyone ELSE to follow the 6-foot rule...then we need to not open up businesses.
People need to take this seriously, and take responsibility for their own actions and how they affect everyone else. If they can't do that, then they should not be allowed to exercise the "freedoms" they so loudly demand (pro-tip: swimming in a pool paid for by amenities is not a right or freedom protected by the constitution).