What Social Distancing Looks LIke In Mexico

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Just one quick shot.  This is from grocery shopping yesterday.  A person comes out and keeps insisting we keep our distance and give us antibacterial gel.  Only 10 customers in the store, one in, one out.   At the check out there are stickers on the floor with an X that marks your spot.  People here have to be reminded because everyone knows everyone else in town and want to catch up.  

Men don't usually use the mask because it's not macho.  They are convinced it won't happen to them.  On television interviews, many people insist it is a plot against the Mexican president and destruction of the economy.  That's a laugh because most of the people out here in the country are not registered taxpayers so they know nothing about economies. 

At the HEB closer to Monterrey, it is much more sophisticated and everyone has on a mask or a shield and gloves.  Very strict rules compared to out here in the countryside.  

We hadn't received the electric bill yet so I dropped by the CFE.  Payments are made via an ATM.  It said, in huge letters, only one person enters at a time.  It was like old home week inside.  I finally had to go in otherwise people would have trampled over me.  I'm in line and two women say goodbye to each other with a kiss and a hug, no mask, no gel in the office either.  

As I was waiting, the only employee behind the counter said, "no touching the screen, use the bar code".  Well that doesn't always work and you need to enter your account number.  I was going to do that because I didn't have a new bill.  So I barked out loud what I wanted to do and she motioned me over.  I told her, "todos estan picando la pantalla, no tienen mascaras mucho menos guardian distancia" (everyone is touching the screen and no one has a mask much less keeping distance).  She smiled and laughed.  Sometimes I think we're all going to die. 

I did my exercise again today sticking to our road and left while it was dark.  I didn't land in the slammer but was ready to stand my ground.  I didn't see a soul in the hour and half of exercise.

Monterrey now has drive through testing for those that think they may be sick.  As we all know, numbers are increasing because of that.

Dingus said today in his conference that private hospitals are now taking patients with Covid.  Not true at all.  The private hospitals have agreed to accept patients with a small list of issues; childbirth, X-rays, endoscopes, hernias, in other words, minor things.  The Covid patients go to the social medicine hospitals.  Why do politicians have to lie?  They all do.  Democrats, Socialists, Republicans, and the list goes on.  One lie after another.