We're doing well...so far!

A basic acknowledgement:

I wasn’t going to write any more about COVID-19.
I had simply had enough; depressed by reading news and sick of listening to radio and television, with counts of how many people had succumbed to the virus. (None around here, incidentally). BUT….( a little piece of positive commentary):

After a quick visit to the local shopping centre early this morning, I took a little time to be impressed by what we have so quickly become used to.

At the main entrance to the shopping centre there is an automatic hand-sanitiser dispenser. You simply place your hands under a small barrel-shaped container and out squirts just enough sanitiser to carefully rub into both hands.

Once at the entry to the supermarket, there is another slightly different hand sanitiser dispenser, alongside a dispenser of sanitising wipes to use on the trolley handle.
So, even though (like me) you may have already applied sanitiser at home, you are able to add a second or third coat, as it were, to your hands - as well as cleaning/disinfecting the trolley.

There are signs directing customers to keep an appropriate distance from each other, with marks on the floor and airport-like barricades leading to checkouts, where you find a friendly assistant behind a Perspex partition.

So super safe!

Speaking to family members in UK, I was surprised to hear that none of these precautions is available there.
Why not?
It seems simple enough.

Figures of coronavirus illness and death in the UK are horrendous. Surely a small, manageable safety addition to the shopping experience would be the least authorities could assist with.
Anything - no matter how small - that might help.

So grateful for our shopping centres’ helpfulness for what they are offering  — and a shout out to COLES and WOOLWORTHS in Australia.
​(And, ALDI also)
Thank you!
 
PS: But be aware that easing of restrictions has proven to be disastrous in some countries.
       Please continue to stay isolated as much as you possibly can.