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Journal Entry #4

What does your neighborhood look like? Are people walking around?
As a distance runner, I’ve spent a lot of time running down sidewalks and on the Green Bay trail recently. I also ran down Forest Way yesterday, and boy are there a lot of people. I could not tell you how many families I saw biking past me in a single file line. With kids out of school and many adults temporarily unemployed, everybody feels the need to get out and take advantage of the nice weather. However, this doesn’t happen without certain moms complaining on Nextdoor about “irresponsible” teenagers. While I won’t go into specifics, several adults in our community have expressed their anger over teens failing to comply with social distancing. This, I feel, is a bit of an overreaction, but at this point, it’s very hard to understand what is and isn’t an overreaction, so I’m just going to keep running outdoors.

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