Restaurants in my county can open for dine in next week. I don't know how to react to that.

My reaction would be to stay at home...

With most of the restaurants closed, I've been seeing reports of rats, shall we say, expanding their territories. They're also eating hoses and such from car engines, since people aren't driving as much.

A side effect of people not driving as much is that there's been a drop in the number of accidents involving bicyclists and pedestrians. However, the drivers that are going out are driving faster and more aggressively, so there seems to have been an uptick in the number of car accidents.

Restaurants in my county can open for dine in next week. I don't know how to react to that.

And apparently they're defying the governor's order. So... yeah, I'd stay home.

the drivers that are going out are driving faster and more aggressively

I've definitely seem this on the freeways here in Texas. Even more than Texas baseline, I mean.

Something else recent: I take a walk around the apartment complex for exercise after dark, and mostly I've been seeing feral cats, with the occaisional bat. Last couple weeks I've seen an opossum at least every other night.

Yes, people are seeing possums and other wild animals. There were the usual duckling parades - ducks make nests, lay their eggs and hatch their babies in less than friendly places, so they get an escort to some water. The reflecting pool is popular ... and some places, they have ramps so the little ones can get in and out.

And right near the zoo, people in an apartment building notices that one of the hawks (from a nest in a tree just outside) had gotten tangled in something and was hanging from a tree and couldn't get loose. He turned out to have been tangled in a length of monofilament; a crew from a tree company came by, one climbed the tree, got the hawk, he was sent off to a raptor rehabilitation center. They cut him loose, rehydrated him, made sure he was OK and he was released near his nest. yay!

However, the drivers that are going out are driving faster and more aggressively, so there seems to have been an uptick in the number of car accidents.

Yeah, at the rate I'm going I feel more likely to be killed by a car than by the covid.

I've come across cars in lawns (not parked!) twice this past week on the Alameda. Much less traffic, tons more stupid driving.

I felt like That Awful Person this afternoon, because I went to Wawa and ordered a sandwich, then watched the kid make it -- with his mask below his nose and only covering his bottom lip. I said something to the manager because every single customer in the store was compliant with mask-wearing, and here's this kid breathing on food and not masking correctly.

I feel incredibly guilty, but still. It's a pandemic!

I'm glad that hawk was rescued.

I'm seesawing between hope and despair, and it's exhausting.

And right near the zoo, people in an apartment building notices that one of the hawks (from a nest in a tree just outside) had gotten tangled in something and was hanging from a tree and couldn't get loose. He turned out to have been tangled in a length of monofilament; a crew from a tree company came by, one climbed the tree, got the hawk, he was sent off to a raptor rehabilitation center. They cut him loose, rehydrated him, made sure he was OK and he was released near his nest. yay!

This is happy making. I'm going to focus on these people instead of the other people.