Observations from a COVID Walkabout

Friday, 5/15/20, 12:30 pm. A few observations on NYC street etiquette after a nice walk around the East Village and Stuyvesant Town with my mother:

* Gen Zers are mostly out of sight, but the few I could identify as being in their teens were MASKED.
* Millennial males are mostly UNMASKED.
* Gen X men are staking out their territory by talking and laughing loudly with their socially non-distancing friends, coughing up loogies, and spitting on the sidewalk. But some, at least, are MASKED (when not excreting their phlegm)!
* Boomer males are clustered and man-spreading on park benches like cavalier cocks, wholly UNMASKED.
* Most women are MASKED; some are even gloved.
* Many women are walking alone or when with other people, six feet apart.
* ALL joggers are UNMASKED.
* ALL bikers are MASKED.
* Children 8 and under are, on the whole, UNMASKED. (Didn't see one with a mask on.)
* Had to stop my mother from scolding several parents for not protecting their children. I said, "It's not your responsibility to correct these dumbasses." She shot back, "Yes, it is!" [Nuff said.]
* Smokers wear their masks on their chins even when not smoking.
* The streets are littered with rubber gloves that look as gnarly as used condoms.
* The homeless have staked out significantly larger spots on corners and in front of closed shops (and ALL are UNMASKED).
* The various delivery people are outstandingly professional: MASKED, gloved, kind, and thankful when thanked.
* The birds are the loudest East Village denizens -- even louder than Gen X men. It sounds like the tropics during mating season.