Two nurses that I know who are working currently, one in Westchester County NY and one in NJ at a large medical center, are both stressed out, busy, hustling. Posting occasional photos of themselves on FB all donned up with the gowns and masks.
Friend’s husband is a cop, another friend’s son is a CO at a state prison. My friend with the CO son is stressed out he’s going to bring the virus home into the house on his clothes and she is trying to stay away from him and she’s constantly sterilizing things (she’s a nurse but doesn’t work as a nurse). I think she has anxiety and the family thinks she is a little too nuts about it.
My friend’s husband, the one that’s a cop, says that a lot of things are suspended for the time being like if your car inspection is expired, they’re not ticketing for it. My guess is that cops realize the more they’re in contact with people, the greater the chance they will get the virus so their department’s current, temporary policy is to let a lot of things go.
Another friend works in a busy supermarket and she said a lot of people are nasty, which I don’t doubt. I see a lot of people on FB shaming each other about supermarket behavior, who has a mask on, who did this, who didn’t do that. So nasty. It’s like MYOB and GTFO, and don’t worry about the next guy. You can’t control others, you can only control yourself.