Definitely more traffic on my street and on the arterial street nearby, more traffic hum in the background, more voice and activity sound. Not up to normal, but not terribly far below a normal night when I moved to the neighborhood four years ago.

Mask use never seems to have crossed 20% or 25%, maybe it’s higher among people who go inside buildings and do things, though it’s about the same at the convenience stores.

They’re talking about reopening bars in a restricted way. No pool tables or jukeboxes, which augurs ill for pinball. Every other video poker machine, wiped down between players, ‘cause that’s an important source of state revenue