Community spread has begun here in southern Ontario, but they are only testing elderly people and health care workers so it's impossible to know any sort of real numbers. Nothing new has shut down that I'm aware of. Public transportation is still operating but it's free and you have to get on at the back of the bus, to protect the drivers. Grocery stores are busy, and still completely out of toilet paper, sanitizer, alcohol, cleaners, and now the flour shelves are empty too.
The paint store where I work is still open, but we have signs up trying to get people to call/email orders in for curbside pickup. We had to lock the door because everyone was ignoring the signs though.. and then my manager kept letting people into the store anyway. The number of people who were annoyed at the inconvenience is enraging. One painter actually told us, "this virus is the best thing that ever happened to me. There's no traffic on the highway, and business has never been better!" He also seems to think that in a week or two this will all be over and we'll be laughing about how paranoid everyone is being - and from the number of people who think it's their right to come into a locked store during a pandemic because they NEED to look at paint colors, there are a lot of folks in town with mindsets like his.
Many people in my city are going about their business like nothing is wrong. Yesterday a trio of women got on the bus with two babies, MUCH too close to me - they were taking advantage of the free ride to go out for a snacks and sodas (meanwhile casually touching everything on the bus).
As far as I'm concerned, too many local people are being dangerously careless, and I wish I could just hole up at home and wait it out. I don't know if I can stop going to work without losing my job though, and I need to have that job at the end of this. Crossing my fingers that they decide to close before I have to go back on Monday.
Stay safe, everyone.
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