Flame suit on.
I have continued to work 40 hours a week at the office throughout. As has at least half my city. We sit elbow to elbow at the table in the kitchen at lunch. None of us wear masks, nor have we during this whole ordeal. I have continued to see and hug my adult kids when they visit. My youngest resumed sleepovers weekend before last. It was friends parents restricting them, not me. Some of her friends are still in lockdown, but a few have been freed. She's trying to organize enough to go to an escape room together (it was able to re-open last weekend). Some of her friends have family members more at risk, so they quite rightfully need to continue isolation. We don't have anyone that would have anything more than flu symptoms as a result of catching it, so if we haven't already, it's no big deal if one of us gets it.
I can't wear a mask, but wouldn't if I could as I believe in math, not propaganda. Assuming that those tested positive are all symptomatic (which they aren't, some are tested for "fun" - how getting the back of your skull touched is fun is beyond me - and some are because they knew they were exposed), that they are all unique (again, they aren't, some of the counts are the same person testing positive on multiple days, waiting for the negative to know they are over it), but let's assume they are all symptomatic and unique and that 75% of those with an active case are asymptomatic, never tested, so we don't know about them. That means right at 1% of the entire state, at most, are currently walking around asymptomatic and exposing people. Your state may vary, but it's just about like that everywhere, if not less. That's math. If I were to just look at my city, the % would be even lower. The likelihood of me standing within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes, AND being part of that 1%, AND breathing on someone that could die from it (i.e. immunocompromised or in a high risk group), is extraordinarily low. What small risk exists only affects those people most at risk who are making their own choice to go out, knowing that there is a risk that they could be exposed, whether or not I am wearing a mask. So their potential illness or death is on them. Not on me. They don't HAVE to go to a garden center, or out to eat at a restaurant, or to Disney for that matter. "Protecting the workers", yeah, they don't have to be there either really as most, if not all, are given the option of staying home if they are at a higher risk. I know there are exceptions, and those exceptions need to be protected if they don't feel safe going to work. Given how the majority of workers at the grocery store, home improvement, etc., have their masks on their chins or necks, with some not having them at all, most of the ones I encounter are as concerned as I am.
I do not visit my brother who lives in a nursing home. Wouldn't go with a mask either, nor standing 12 feet away. I do not go shopping during senior hours. But I do go to the store a few times a week as normal. I do the little tape lines at check out, it's pointless, but not a big deal. I am not concerned if the person behind me doesn't. The plexi sneeze shields are mostly a joke as well since everyone steps just to the side of them where the card machine is. I completely ignore the silly one way signs on the aisles, as does everyone else. If I see someone elderly while out shopping, while I believe it is their choice to be there during a non-senior hour, I do avoid walking near them if I can avoid it unless they ask for help or want to talk. An older woman asked my husband at the store on Sunday to get something off the top shelf for her. He offered to put it directly in her basket, but she moved closer to take it directly from him instead. Her choice. From their perspective, while the heart might be in the right spot trying to avoid them, the result is that a lot of seniors feel isolated. You never know, maybe they didn't have transportation available during the senior hour window, or they need to be able to socialize.
If anything, I shop more often as everywhere is still out of a lot of things, or prices are rediculous, especially on meat, so I have to shop around more. Have been out to eat 4 or 5 times since restaurants were allowed to re-open 10 days ago. At Lowes last night, went to look at water pumps. There was someone standing there already (20-ish?), so stopped a few feet away to give him space. He started up a conversation as we were both pondering which pump would be best for our respective projects. As one does when chatting friendly-like, he ended up moving closer. He wasn't concerned. I wasn't concerned. No big deal. If he had an underlying condition that wasn't evident, and I unknowingly have the virus and gave it to him just from chatting for a few minutes, and he ends up dying, aside from something around a 0.00001% chance of that happening ... that's life and is on him for choosing to go to Lowes and looking at pumps.
If the potential of death from catching this virus, or any other coronavirus (they have been around for at least 50 years - a 2005 strain that still floats about put my brother in the hospital in March of this year) is high for you personally or someone in your family that you see often, then you probably shouldn't be going out. If you accept the risk and choose to go out, that is your decision and should not have anything to do with me. If anything, assume the worse when you make your decision to go out. Assume not only that the asymptomatics are more like 50% of the general population, but assume that the symptomatics are out there too with Tylenol and Dayquil masking their symptoms and getting them thru the temp checks.