Farmers' Market

My local farmers' market just reopened a couple weeks ago. (This is normal - they have an indoor market over the winter that was cancelled, and then the summer market begins in May.) They have a lot of precautions in place, including:

This picture must have been from last week,
today was rainy and gray

• everyone must wear masks
• 1 shopper per household
• 25 minute time slot to shop, based on your last name
• 1 customer at a time per vendor booth
• everyone stays 6 feet apart
• vendors are encouraged to take pre-orders online if possible
• otherwise, they use "point to purchase" - customer points at something and vendor places it on a table for the customer to bag themselves

There were a couple things we saw on the list from a local distillery this week that my husband wanted, so I went out at my designated 25 minute time slot this morning. Even with a mask on, the vendor recognized me, which was nice (we've spent a lot of time talking to him in past years). I was surprised that he handled my credit card, instead of asking me to swipe it. But he did go ahead and sign for me so I didn't have to touch his device. He said since our state closed liquor stores until recently, his business had actually been doing great! (I can confirm - my husband had already picked up orders from a couple other local distilleries during this time.)

Then I went back to my car, sanitized my hands, took of my mask, and wiped everything down when I got home.

The governor announced yesterday that all remaining counties in our state, including mine, will move from red to yellow phase in two weeks (and some of the boring ones are moving from yellow to green). I'm a little confused about this because my county is still at twice the amount of average new cases over the last 14 days that it's supposed to be to move to this phase. What's the point of setting science-based guidelines if you're going to be bullied into not following them?