No serious gaming but 3 of 5 met up for playtests of various sorts. Everybody on my ass about hammering out houserules and a setting and making miniature terrain but i'm taking my sweet time. Procrastination is my virtue.
All of us voluntarily limit contact with each other (its nice to have a reason to cite instead of just being rude and admitting that you do not feel like fooling with people today) and other people on the off chance that we might spread even a normal flu to the old folks, each of us have elders for whom we run errands to keep them out of grocery stores and walmarts and such.
Two of my players have now taken the johnson & johnson vaccine which is akin to the normal flu shot, just a dead strain thats supposed to build antibodies. Most of us are 35-50 in age. There has been no cops busting up gatherings in my area and people still gather, though usually outdoors in secluded rural areas.
Back at the beginning the sheriff did stop in and warn us at the shop about old folks and contact tracing; anytime you in there working old men love to stop in and sit there all day and watch you work, so for about a year we've kept it shut down, singular appointment only and the boys have been doing much of it at night with locked doors. Just drop your shit off and pick it up the next day. I admit i love telling people no, one at a time, i'll get to you when i can, hush, buy me liquor or touch my pecker and i'll bump you to the front.
None of us are afeared of the gay lil bat soup bug, but for the sake of the old farts, you don't wanna be the guy that accidentally infected them or to be perceived as such. Whether it is just a flu variant or an excuse to murder pensioners with ventilators to alleviate the states financial burden, it doesn't matter, better safe than sorry. Avoid contacts, avoid doctors, avoid people in general unless those people are bringing you money or sex.
Once everyone has taken their cuck vax we might go back to normal, but then again maybe not, because truth is we have enjoyed everything being shut down and contact being limited. The contacts you do have feel more productive, authentic, and less awkward than normal, much of the bullshit is cut out and people say what they mean and how they feel because there is no time to waffle and prevaricate and virtue signal and pretend to agree. Anyone not feeling well can skype the sessions, everyone else can show up and we'll play behind locked doors. By now everyone but me has had multiple negative tests for covid. My wife had the vax too, so far no sign of anything. Me, I still have not even been tested let alone vaxed, but I really only have contact with wife/kids, like 3 friends, and a handful of old folks who i run errands for so they don't risk standing in lines or crowds.
Its a welcome respite to not be rushed and crushed by everyone elses schedules but to instead work at your own pace and make them dance to your schedule instead, while potential income is greatly curtailed by this the state has been quite generous in helping to curtail the impact, the guard for example gave a bunch of MRE's to the food pantries and churches to hand out if anyone comes up short on grocery money. I ate a brick-burger that you boil and pork n beans in brick form. MRE's are like gourmet camping out.
I don't wear a mask unless the place i'm going wants you to wear one, and even then i do it to appease others, not because i want to or fear a virus. If it puts people at ease and saves me from being blamed for killing granny i'm good with it. I kinda like dressing like a ninja anyway.