It's sorta like in the movies. Or TV shows, or ANY fiction at all. The one thing you NEVER see (and if you do, you never forget it, because it's so rare) a character do is the one thing we all do several times a day: go to the bathroom.
And we do it in public, too. Except now we're supposed to do it with "social distancing." But except for the rare public places (I know most Starbucks are like this, for some reason) with a single occupancy bathroom, how do you enforce "social distancing" in bathrooms? Shut down every other stall? Urinal? Those things aren't six feet apart to begin with. Sinks? Entry and exit? And what about the people refusing to wear a mask? I'm not exposing myself to them.
I had a guy come to my house yesterday, to talk about doing some minor home improvement projects. I've had him at my house several times. He rebuilt a room of my house, and has done other light and major tasks. He made sure to stand politely away from me, and when my wife took him inside to show him some work we needed done there (some of the work is outside), I stayed outside so as not to crowd them. He knows the score, and so do I, and neither of us wants to get sick.
The return to "normal" will not be paved by government officials "opening" businesses, or even schools, or firing all teachers over 60. It will begin when people are comfortable with going to the bathroom in a restaurant or a movie theater or at the mall. And there's nothing Trump or any governor can do to mandate that.
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