[Leica] Breaking Free

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Interesting to see the same rules apply everywhere the virus has shown up 
... Thanks for posting.

Jean-Michel Mertz
68750 - Bergheim

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Objet : [Leica] Breaking Free

Yesterday, after over a week in confinement, I packed a lunch and we headed
for the local Arboretum to have a picnic. Well, the weather was not so warm,
so we ate in the car then went for a walk.  Easy to keep social distance as
there were maybe 3-4 other couples wandering around the whole place.  Even
the few cars in the parking lot were following social distance practices.  A
few shots from the arboretum.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Arboretum-4000.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Arboretum-4002.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Arboretum-4007.jpg.html

Today we decided we finally needed to go shopping for something to eat.  So,
we got up early to take advantage of the senior only hours at a few stores.
A grocery store (Winco) opened from 6-7:30 for seniors.  We got there at
about 7:15 and had the place to ourselves.  Kind of nice.  We were all
decked out in our hazmat gear.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Winco-4013.jpg.html

Paper goods aisle was picked clean.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Winco-4014.jpg.html

Then on to Costco.  What a difference.  They opened at 8:00 for seniors and
the line was literally all around the store.  We did not see that from where
we parked, and grabbed a cart and headed to what we thought was the end of
the line.  But it went around that corner, and the next and the next all the
way to the front of the store again and into the parking lot.  Unbelievable.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Costco-4016.jpg.html

Everyone was patient and it only took 15 minutes to get into the store.  Big
store, so not over crowded, but hard to keep 6 feet away in places.  A month
ago I would have thought it deserted. Checkout was very efficient and quick,
as usual for Costco.   I did not know there were that many old geezers here
in Yakima.  Won't have to do that again for many weeks.  We are fully
stocked and spent a big chunk of the coronavirus relief check we are slated
to get, even though we don't need it.  I wish they had an opt out option so
those who really need it could get it and we could save the government some
money.   Some people are out of work and taking a real hit, but many of us
continue to get what we always have.

Comments welcome.

Aram

Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer

?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson


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