Originally Posted by
DakotaRog
P76 is from rural SD so nothing really changed there. I'm from "metro" SD and nothing really changed here except there was no in-sitting dining, bars after a while, and most churches did on-line services. Mask wearing got up to maybe 50% out and about, but is now falling. Menards, a home building type of store out the Wis-- don't know beyond the Midwest how far they stretch-- now requires a mask to enter and will make you buy one for a buck if don't have one and don't walk out on them. I use an old tiger-stripe Vietnam era camo bandana (the camo is Vietnam era but the bandana is newer than that) when I'm in most stores. The wife is high risk so wears a mask about any retail place but has certainly been out a lot. South Dakota never did a state-wide lockdown and even in "metro" SD, things were pretty open. I and most of the staff of the facility I work at have been banished to work from home except for super essential peeps. I was one of the last professionals they forced home and told my supervisor that sooner or later the virus will be there in some form so all this micro-managing of where it came from and so on will become obsolete. But it keeps a number of the bureaucrats busy and in their world, that's "work"-- sorry, not in mine. I haven't been too interested in scrap metal given the overall crappy prices-- I wouldn't be scared to picked it up, especially if it was outside for some days. I've been trying to organize my space out in the garage better so I can break down and store more of the better stuff. I haven't been to the steel yard since sometime last fall, a penny and half or less a pound doesn't excite me. Maybe in June...