We, well me in particular, were almost hermits anyway.
We don’t do lunch or breakfast out anymore but still get the odd takeaway coffee or takeout Thai or Japanese meal. The co driver had reduced her social interaction by limiting it to one on one coffee dates.
Beach walks are still on the agenda.
Of course we don’t travel any more. Our New Zealand and USA trips are on hold and the one to Tasmania in late September is still pending although their border closure keeps getting extended.
The only major change has been grocery shopping.
We now do ‘click and collect‘, ordering on line and picking up at a designated parking spot at the supermarket. This not only reduces contact with other people, many of whom don’t think social distancing applies to them, but also reduces our shopping time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes.
The only downside is not readily seeing what is new, not being able to impulse purchase, having some products unavailable eg. fresh bakery items and not being able to select the longest ‘best by’ or ‘use by’ dates.
We have also replaced our meat purchases at the supermarket with much better products at a local butcher who enforces social distancing rigorously in his shop.
Of the four supermarkets in town, the two majors, Coles and Woolworths, have embraced on line purchasing to the fullest.
When this is all over (if it ever is) we would consider continuing down that road.
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