Perhaps the strangest of places to be in our current timeline is the supermarket. Here is where you’ll find the full array of reactions to COVID. From outright fear to borderline denial – it’s all here. The majority of people seem resoundingly standoffish; like they’re afraid of everyone and everything, as if any person around them could be the one to infect them – and in fairness they’re probably right. But on the other end of the spectrum there’s the people who seem hellbent on making COVID-safety nearly impossible in one way or another. Whether it’s standing in the middle of a walkway too thin to pass outside of the 1.5m bubble on either side, picking products up only to decide they didn’t want it anyway or just treating their mask as more detrimental to their health than the virus itself – there’s never any shortage of these types of people. Funny how a place such as a supermarket, so taken for granted in pre-COVID times, has become one of very few remaining shared societal spaces at present.
Translating Observation | Observation 6 | Noah Hodgson
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