Personal anecdotes - how much of your social circle is strictly adhering to physical distancing

I'd say that 25% of my social circle is 100% self isolating, and the other 75% is doing what I call "half assed social distancing".

Let me use my friend's annoying roommate "Joe" as an example because he's a racist dickweed and I enjoy shit talking him whenever possible. Also my friend has health problems that would make COVID very deadly for him, so it's very sad that his roommate is such a tool.

Joe works outdoors in construction so he's an "essential worker". Here's his daily routine:

-Wake up in morning and go through a fast food drive through on the way to work. Throw the wrapper out the window while driving (this has nothing to do with COVID I just like pointing out that Joe is a giant tool).

-For lunch, order skip the dishes to the site office.

-On his way home, stop at the grocery store. Joe doesn't wear a mask because he thinks people who tell you to wear masks are "fear mongering losers". He shops for groceries every day because planning meals in advance is a foreign concept to him (which you probably already guessed).

-Joe doesn't wash his hands when he gets home (according to his roommate who claims he never hears water running).

-Joe has a few beers while playing video games.

-Joe decides he wants more beer and also a Rockstar, so he drives drunk to the convenience store to buy one(1) can of Rockstar, then he drives drunk to the liquor store to buy another case of beer.

-You may be wondering "Couldn't Joe have bought a Rockstar at the grocery store? Or perhaps... He could have bought seven of them, so he needs to shop just once per week, instead of seven times?" Hahaha WELL. You are clearly smarter than Joe, whose two brain cells have never floated close enough to each other in his giant empty skull to make this leap of logic.

-Joe gets home and does not wash his hands again. Presumably washing your hands is also for fear mongering losers, in his mind.

-Joe signs onto Discord and drunkenly slurs out a loud rant to his friends about how he's "The Best at social distancing. I haven't seen any of my friends in person in months! I am social distancing so well nobody does it better than me." Then he continues to shout into his fucking microphone until 4 in the morning because he's a steaming turd of a roommate.

Meanwhile, realistically Joe's grubby hands have probably rubbed germs from 3 dozen people all over the house that he shares with a high-risk person, and his stupid un-masked face was within 6 feet of another dozen people within the past 24 hours alone.

Can you even really say he's socially distancing? He physically interacts with more people per day than I've interacted with in total in 2020...

/r/Edmonton Thread