Since I am completely retired, many things are the same.  The routine things have become more complicated electing to make sure we wear masks when we are in public places while shopping and visiting other routine places that have re-opened.

We have a circle of friends that we have been getting together with.  One is a semi-retired family practice doctor that acts as our barometer for social gatherings.  We have been out to eat lunch a couple of times keeping a good distance between us and other diners and recently our favorite restaurant in town has started back holding their monthly wine dinners and we attended that.  Each restaurant we have visited has taken extreme but reasonable measures to ensure the safety of their diners and staff and we have felt very comfortable during those outings.

Our annual travels have been eliminated.  We had just returned from Mexico when the lockdown started going into effect.  We were supposed to meet up with my brother and his wife in Santa Fe, NM in April, but had to cancel everything that was planned.  Sandy was scheduled to go to Canada with a church group next month and that has gone away.  The church group also met one month for lunch at one of the local restaurants but since the group can be 30 or more people that is not reasonable to attempt.  Most social connections have been through phone calls and Zoom connections.

We do try to stay physically active.  The neighborhood where we live is very walkable and it is easy to zig-zag through all the streets and easily get as many miles in as our legs will take us.  Sandy gets moving earlier than I do and usually meets up with a friend down the block either on her way out or somewhere along her path and they walk with her dog.  Today she had was on her way home after several miles when she met her friend outbound and did most of the same distance she had already completed.  I intercepted them on my walk and completed 5 miles by the time I returned to the house, so I know Sandy must have done between 8-10 miles.

We try to maintain as much discipline as we can with both diet and exercise and be as careful as we can about who we get close to.  Retirement certainly has the advantage of not having to go into an office or other workplace where I have no control over who I might come in contact with.

Until recently, the spread of the virus has been very controlled here.  Since things have opened back up, the number of infections has really exploded.  Fortunately, the rate of hospitalization and deaths has been very low.  The drive-thru testing sites have been staffed but mostly unused until the past week or so.  Now the traffic is backed up out onto main roads with cars waiting to get in.

Maybe my rambling is too long and gives a lot of useless information nobody really cares about, but I guess the bottom line for us is, we try to stay active, socialize with a trusted circle, and exercise as much practical caution as we can without letting paranoia overtake our mental health as some folks around us have.

I hope everyone else is safe and healthy mentally and physically and look forward to reading other forum inputs.