I got my hair cut from my usual lady. She wore a mask and sprayed down everything. I waited in my car until she told me to come in. I’ve gone out to eat twice with work friends. I’ve worked this entire time, more than usual. i’m in my 40s and in great health and do not know anyone who has gotten sick. Live in the Midwest. I am not saying I disagree with social distancing or most precautions. I stay away from most people outside of work, practice all the mask/disinfecting stuff, spend a lot of extra money on food i’d rather not due to all the grocery closures and so on.
I use clippers, which should be even easier, but I guess wouldn’t work for a super long beard. I just change the comb length depending on what I feel like, but I never clean shave the main part of my face (neck and strays on cheeks as my beard isn’t full very far up) since I started growing it out a decade or so ago. Scissors would be more difficult but I wouldn’t think impossible.
A local brewery had a sushi food truck we love (best poke bowls around), so we went to pick up food and a growler. The brewery is located in a complex of buildings around a huge parking lot. On Saturday evening, the brewery was the only business open.
We were surprised to see ten vehicles parked as far as possible from each other, with the vehicle occupants “tail-gating”, drinking their growlers and eating sushi. I masked up and took my growler in to get it filled. The owner told me the people drinking in the parking lot was a spontaneous thing that just occurred.
The brewer had called the cops to make sure he wasn’t violating the law and the PA State Police checked things out. We were all off the brewery’s property, so he was in the clear. Technically, we were all violating PA open container law, but we were all being responsible and so the police decided to allow our drinking.
Sushi and beer enjoyed while literally sitting on the tailgate of my gf’s truck. We were giddy at the near-normalcy of the situation.
I’m getting a haircut asap. I shaved myself bald 2 months ago, but I’m not doing that again.
I have felt this! After two months of grocery deliveries, I went to the grocery store myself and was euphoric at the prospect of *just picking things off the shelf myself. *
I’m such a wuss. I wouldn’t have lasted during the London blitz. Any REAL hardship, and I’d crumple like tinfoil. 
<Hangs head in shame. And deeply admires those who HAVE endured serious hardship…>
I’d like to go to the gym, I’d like to get my hair cut, I’d like to go to a gig and see live bands again, and I’d like to meet my friends in the pub. But I don’t need to do any of those things, I can survive without.
I go to the supermarket once a week for groceries and that’s the extent of my plans to mix with humanity. This week I am going to a friend’s house to drop off a birthday gift, I expect we’ll have a chat at a safe distance since she’s a key worker and her partner is a cancer survivor.
Was considering a haircut (trust me, I need it). But mizPullin offered to do it, and it worked out fine. Honestly I can’t tell the difference between my wife’s cut and the 35 dollar one at the salon.
So I’m getting it cut at home from now on. It costs less and the stylist lets me play with her boobs (a little).
Well, I had the plumber replace my vacuum breaker and swap a leaking, old-fashioned gate or globe valve with a ball valve, but that was just a bit of work in the basement and outside.
The fridge died, though, and I don’t have time or space to take it apart and diagnose it, so, Sears will be here today to have a look. This worries me just a bit more because it’s an activity in the middle of the most-used part of our house that’s certain to involve a lot of touching of our surfaces.
I trimmed my bangs. It looks okay?
My local Massage Envy has opened up, and I was able to go in last week and get a massage. Full sanitation protocols were in effect. My masseuse wore a face mask, as did I, and I was required to wash my hands and have my temperature taken, as well as verify that I was asymptomatic and had not been exposed (as far as I knew) to the virus. Usually after a massage I was able to schedule my next appointment, but I was told they were only making appointments by phone.
One of these days I’ll have to look into getting a haircut.
Lots of things are opening up around here (San Antonio, TX). The mayor has lifted the stay-at-home requirement. Our local (fabulous) grocery store chain H-E-B is not requiring customers to wear masks to be admitted any more. Store employees and vendors will continue to wear them. Don’t know for how long.
Our numbers are not off the chart: total of just under 3,000 cases, 71 deaths (virtually all over age 50 and most over age 70) in a population of just over 2 million.
Even so, there are many IMPORTANT things we don’t know about this disease. Like why some people get very, very sick and/or die and some only have a mild case (genetic research is feverishly [hehe] being done right now on that question all over the world) and why a small-ish percentage of infected people are “super-spreaders.”
In light of those unknown factors, IMHO this is too much lifting of rules too soon. I don’t like not being able to go anywhere I want, and wearing a mask makes me feel like I’m suffocating sometimes, but I feel that masks & social distancing are the reason the number of new cases is slowing down. Why do we want to go backwards? Just because people are getting antsy and annoyed? Not a good enough reason. I know small businesses are being hurt. I know we can’t stay locked down forever. It is a dilemma. I know. It’s a judgment call. And each person has to decide on a level of risk they are willing to endure.
So in addition to the question posed in the title of this thread (how are you feeling about it now?), I’d like to ask the Peanut Gallery: will you continue to wear a face mask when you’re out and about even if it’s no longer required or even *suggested *in your community? Will you mind being one of, say, *ten *masked people in a group of 100 (spread out, of course) at the grocery store or in a park?
The thing is, wearing the mask doesn’t protect YOU… other people wearing their masks protects you. So if just about everyone else stops wearing one, is there any point to you continuing to do so. Or is it a case of “can’t hurt, might help”?
I’ll take my answer off the air… 
I got an email from a local brewery that is reopening (with limits) on Friday. They are allowed to operate at 50% capacity if they can maintain social distancing. Theyve removed half their tables and bar-stools. They have designated spots at the bar for service. Masks are not required while consuming beer, but anyone getting bar service is asked to mask for that. Masks are also to be worn when using the restroom or walking about.
My sister stopped to drop something off at our house (she lives about 20 minutes away) and I went outside to greet her masked. She hadn’t thought to bring hers along, I guess. It was a bit awkward. I stayed about 12 feet away.
Someone mentioned the difficulty (or not) of beard trimming. If it was easy, there wouldn’t be so many barbers.
Some guys can do their own, and some shouldn’t. Scissors, oddly enough, are safer. With clippers, a millisecond’s distraction leads to <bszzzztt!> oh no! but go slow with scissors and most guys do OK, or at least tolerably well.
My partner is a stylist, and he’s re-opening on Saturday. The record-keeping, documentation, and cleaning between clients is almost as severe as it is at a dental office. As an industry consultant was telling me recently, “if I said on that first weekend in March that you’d all be getting waivers from every client, and you’d only be able to see about half as many clients in a day, you’d think I was drinking the Barbicide!”
Restaurants on Oahu reopened for sit-down service yesterday, and the wife and I had our first on-site meal in months this afternoon.
I am going next week to get my feet cast for new orthotics. I was planning to do this the week before the Shelter in Place order, but had to wait for a new prescription to arrive from my orthopedist. The orthotist mostly works out of a shoe store that specializes in people with problematic feet, so he isn’t really set up for e-prescribing.
I am not thrilled at needing to enter any sort of enclosed public space (I think I will continue cutting my own hair for quite some time and have been getting groceries either via delivery or curbside pickup, and our vegetable garden this year is going to be INSANE), but without the orthotics, I can’t walk any significant amount without pain. It’s a medical appointment, not a frivolity.
The shoe store where my appointment will be told me a mask was required and that my temperature would be taken before entry. That’s just fine with me.
We went to a brewery Friday night and a restaurant/bar Saturday night. Both places are doing things as cautiously as possible. Tables outdoors with Liquor Control Board “passes” for June, allowing open containers outside. Indoor tables are spaced far apart.
The bartender/servers are all masked and customers are asked to mask anytime they leave their seat/table.
I actually could get used to this as the new norm.
I’m hoping that we get higher prices rather than higher pressure to turn over tables. I go out to relax, and merely to eat, and being forced out before I’m ready is always a turnoff. I predict that there will be much more pressure to turnover more rapidly.
Restaurants here are only allowed to do dine-in servce if they have an outdoor patio (or wall more than 50% open to the outdoors) and tables are at least 6 feet apart, and the dining area isn’t along the sidewalk. That cuts down the available options considerably, and many are limiting how long you can hang out with a reservation. (1.5 - 2 hours seems to be the norm.) Also there’s a six-person maximum party size. You’re also required to wear masks except when seated at your table eating or drinking.
I don’t think I’m going to bother - it doesn’t sound very relaxing. I’d rather just eat in my backyard.
We cautiously went to an outdoor plant nursery today. It was fine except for one customer who kept moving in on whatever we were looking at and standing a foot from us, and the cashier at one of the checkstands who went from chin mask to throat mask while we were paying at the next register.
Do not understand this concept… 