Covid 19 situation now?

[DonJuane]

As an A.H. we all are familiar with is known to say, "it is what it is". I can't give a blow by blow report as I've only driven for short trips to relieve potential insanity and I haven't been downtown in a year but mask wearing in the suburbs seems to have fallen out of fashion. You see some wearing on the bus but it's now a roll of the dice like I would imagine most of the US is, if not a little worse at least in an environment of this city's architecture. The narrow callejones I suspect are as always the largest area of exposure because as you know there is not always 6' of room and people here seem oblivious and few on last observation bothered with masks. And if you think people will lean out and hug the wall on the opposite side of the callejone, not so lucky there. The biggest hit in this city is that it is a pedestrian and public transport city if you are talking about centro, so from that aspect it could be considered more prone to transfer the virus than the US car-culture cities. NYC would contrast that from the US perspective but while NYC seems to be getting a grasp on the pandemic I would imagine there would be many similarities between there and here relating to contagion with public transport the same requirement in both cities.

The issue of course in GTO is the fact that one can't normally just step outside and get into their own car. Public transportation is normally a must unless you are lucky to be a short walk to a vegetable or butcher shop. Still the callejones put you face to face, like it or not. Even with a car you are left with mainly driving to Comer and that place gets seriously intense during interludes of my seeming to always ending up there at the wrong time. The vegetable area seems to be on some sort of supernatural time table to where everyone in the market always flocks to all diverge upon the vegetable area the moment I set foot there. It can become quite intense. For this reason I recommend at least in the vegetable markets to do the local vendors. Still there and with no parking in the city even if you have an auto you cannot typically park in front, shop and be gone. So this city from a public transportation always being required perspective is not the best choice. Still Mexico in general, if you don't get stopped somewhere for doing what would have to be defined as non-essential travel which is now supposedly prohibited at least via land entry, would be a likely good place to hang out.

I do agree that the US seems steeped on if not civil war, extreme civil unrest coming up with the election. So I don't blame you for seeking refuge here. Who would have thought that an Australian could have conquered the USA? Good old Rupert Murdoch, don't you love him. Still all propagandists need a willing audience so from that perspective, perhaps they deserve exactly what they get.