Big News!
The coffee house I stop in before going the rest of the way into to the med school has taken down their plastic anti covid barriers! They still had the up Monday when I came in for a special class. However, 5 students were absent Monday with Covid, so the barriers might be going back up again, but for the first time in years, the barriers are down. Staff still wearing masks though, as are those of most businesses.

Even if it's discovered, the face garments do more harm than good, some will not take them off. It'S like Linus from Peanuts with his darn blanket.
Where pray tell is this restaurant and med school???
Are they frozen in time?
I just returned from a short term medical mission trip of 2 weeks to Ghana, working with Ghanaians in outpatient outreach clinics and we didn’t even bother testing for COVID, recognizing that between acquired natural immunity and weakened virility of the newer variants that there was no real need to test or treat for the most part (& zinc, IVERMECTIN AND/or HCQ + vitamin C and D would be sufficient should we suspect it).