So what are we supposed to be doing now relating to the pandemic?

Do we return to going to restaurants or is this just a ploy for the "economy"?

If you want to support restaurants, then order takeout and leave a nice tip. They are open for economic reasons, as a lot jobs are in the dining industry.

Should we be sheltering at home?

Yes, within reason. It is okay to visit places if you are able to socially distance, such as walking in a non-crowded place.

Is it safe to return to the gym or are they only open because of economic reasons?

Probably not safe yet. Stick to working out at home with body weight exercises, and do your cardio outside in an area without crowds.

What if we live with or are in regular contact with people over 60?

Keep your contact with them to a minimum, and if you are seeing them, wear a mask and remain socially distant.

How are you all interpreting this or handling this?

I understand the need for the economy to continue, but I'm not going to eat at a restaurant, visit a bar, or go to the gym for the foreseeable future. I've skipped weddings and birthday parties during this time.

Very simple: stay home and if you have to go out for groceries etc. wear a mask. It sucks to see local businesses suffer but had people actually done the quarantine properly since the beginning, we would be living our normal lives by now.

The best thing you can do to support your local barbershop, restaurant, or gym is to follow guidelines and quarantine as much as possible. Both of my parents work in medicine and they have been taking extra precautions every day since February. They wash their hands multiple times a day, always wear masks in public, stay away from people, leave shoes outside the house, open doors with a napkin etc. The people that protect themselves the most are the ones that know the most about the virus; it's called KNOWLEDGE. Mind you, my parents have always done some of these things, even before the virus.

Just because our political "leaders" have failed us, does not mean that you, as a citizen, should do the same for the rest of society. I assure you that the cemetery has plenty of capacity and does not care about your "constitutional" rights or beliefs.

Yes, ideally stay home when you can. Wear a mask. Continue to social distance and stay a few feet away from others. Wash your hands if you can, use hand sanitizer when you can't. If you're around a lot of people (like if you're a cashier at a grocery store), wear a face shield and gloves. Be careful taking off any of these items, act as if they're contagious (I try taking off clothes and immediately putting them in the washer). Wash your mask after every use.

If you're at risk of being infected and live with someone over 60, try to quarantine from them as much as you can, including using your own bathroom. You may want to go as far as wearing a mask indoors and sanitizing inside as much as possible.

Try to minimize meeting new people, and if you do hang out with others, hang out outside and follow the same protocols. Takeout from restaurants is better than eating at their location. I would avoid the gym and work out at home if you can.

It's all about risk. This isn't foolproof, you could do everything almost perfectly and still catch it with one mistake. You could do the complete opposite and get lucky and never catch it. You could also catch it without knowing and never experience symptoms and carry it to others, who may then experience symptoms and die. But if everyone protects themselves the best they can, they can drastically help slow the spread and therefore limit the number of people affected.

Do the right thing and wear a mask, kind annoying that every time open my insta i see someone throwing a boat party tho

We must take it upon ourselves to take care of ourselves and our neighbors.

Don’t worry, hurricane season will fix everything.

I keep looking at the news for some new guidance because when this all started, they were updating us daily and every day was a new shutdown, now I feel like they’ve shifted the responsibility of controlling the virus to the citizens. That may have worked when the cases were declining/stabilizing and there wasn’t a strong threat of a medical system collapse, but we are in serious trouble right now and no one is doing anything about it. It’s like they’re scared of shutting things down again. I know the economy really can’t handle it, but with how bad things are getting, they really have to make some hard decisions. It’s infuriating that they shut everything down and harmed the economy for a tiny fraction of these cases, yet won’t do it again when it’s actually 100% needed and we are in serious danger.

Do you have to go to that restaurant/party/gathering? If no, then don’t. DO, however, intend to spend your extra time buying and storing things such as food, water, and ammo.

Happy bunking.

You aren't alone. I am out of work and it feels so strange to just be at home so much but it's for the best. We are currently the epicenter of the epicenter with over 10k cases a day, mostly in Miami. Continue trusting science and Fauci. Our local government is foolish and greedy.

Well the state government shifted the focus on trusting citizens to do the right thing. Anyone who has lived here for more than 6 months knows that means shelter in place or get the hell out.

I wouldn't be going to restaurants or the gym at all. If you order uber eats, throw the packaging it came in away and pop the food in the microwave for 2 minutes to kill anything else. A lot of restaurant staff think the nose dangle mask thing works, and the uber eats drivers give less of a fuck.

Look out for yourself and fuck everybody else, it’s the Florida way!

I feel you, there is no guidance. Unfortunately, it seems our own common sense is our best ally now. Everything’s open; it shouldn’t be. We have more and more cases each day. We should all be staying home, wearing masks, only going out for essentials. Since we do not have a vaccine it’s literally the only way to stop the spread, which in case anyone in FL hasn’t noticed, is rampant.

Most here don’t seem to care. Lots of them are tourists. Shouldn’t even be here. Go home.

FL is the epicenter of the world with more cases a day than NY at its peak. No it's not safe to dine at restaurants or go to the gym or party or go to disney...

Things have only gotten worse since we sheltered in place back in March.

We do groceries using Instacart and are only just now resuming visits with immediate family (but no one else). My wife works M-F. Otherwise, we never leave the house.

I am not going out except to walk or ride bikes or to the dr.

Some viruses affect people directly related to the amount of particles they’re exposed to (“viral load”). More particles = worse symptoms. While they don’t know yet if COVID is one of those virus types, it could partially explain why the symptoms are so wildly different from person to person.

So go outside distanced from others, and take all the other precautions as well and you’ll probably be fine.

Keep it to the bare essentials like groceries and even then try to knock that out in as few trips as possible. I’m working (my job has actually not closed at all throughout the pandemic) but I only go from home to work and back and my job continuously encourages CDC guidelines. I wash my hands as soon as I get home, when I arrive at work, and several random times throughout the day. I also use sanitizer whenever I get done speaking to another coworker (while wearing a mask). Play it safe is probably the best course of action.

Legitimately, thank you for being so rational in the face of all this. So many people could learn from you.

I guess this would be a good place to ask this question, but should I be visiting my brother?

Just like me, he is working from home. Neither of us leave our respective homes for anything, really, except groceries maybe twice a month, and we recently went to the beach...

That being said, he lives with my cousin, who works for Comcast installing internet at various businesses. He maintains social distance at all times and always wears a mask.

How big is the risk if I am taking going over there to hang out 3-4 hours a few times a week?

My grandmother is over 80 and lives with me and my parents, but in her own efficiency with a caretaker, separate from my house. My folks are in their late 50s.

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Staying home, going out shopping as little as possible working from Anywhere is the move right now. Millennials will not accept jobs that can’t be done from a Laptop on a balcony. Blue collar jobs, Police, Fire, nurses, waitresses will be seen as low tier risky jobs.

I've been wondering these same things and then thinking about how pathetic and depressing it is that I have to wonder about these things. This is a public health crisis and I, a layman, is made to make decisions about what appropriate behavior is because there is such a complete lack of leadership. I just think, "this is what Russia wanted." A weak America.