I've certainly heard of those mice never exposed to any illnesses; healthiest mice in the bubble; death if they ever leave it. There are real high level questions for policy and like all serious issues, rather than real discussions and facts, we get political gamesmanship and shameless lies. My own county went into a regional agreement, setting objective milestones for phases of reopening. Than without explanation, and certainly not apology, just ignored it when the numbers didn't match their plans a few weeks later. And of course moved businesses in and out of categories as seeming political whim. And then there's the issue of selective enforcement. And rather than rage against the machine; folks are spitting on and assaulting Walmart cashiers. I know everyone is highly stressed, but I see it more bringing out the worst in people. Bullying the poor bastard cashier who will be fired if they even raise their voice in response.
I'm working 40 plus hours a week in a retail environment. We are in a mandatory mask state and the company I work for is super aggressive about employee/customer safety. Probably to the point of overkill where we have protocols that fall into the realm of diminishing returns.
Plenty of costumers are annoyed, irritated and abuse the staff about mandates and protocols they have nothing to do with implementing.
Generally I try and use a form of soft persuasion in getting customers to wear their mask, asking them to give management and staff a break, it's not our call. Usually that works.
I'm not overly concerned myself but I have teammates that are living in daily fear and terror of Covid -19. No amount of putting things in context seems to help them. They are stuck on 11 when it comes to neuroticism. So many folks are complaining about eye and throat irritation that we switched to a new antiviral sanitizer, away from Virex. The whole building was getting doused in Virex and alcohol to the extreme.
The truth is it is a corona virus and it will spread despite masks, gloves, lockdowns, no lockdowns etc. Half of what we are doing is just the analogue to the security theater of TSA ie "at least we're doing something", regardless if it has any impact on outcomes.