out among the people (at a distance, more or less)

During this time, I have done all the grocery shopping, and have driven a friend to oncology appointments three times (both of us masked, plus gloves on her). Arthur goes out for walks, sometimes drives me shopping, and sits on the screened-in porch a lot, but has been much more of a (very electronically connected) isolated person. The Rotary club and Boy Scout troop decorated the gazebo at a nearby park with lights in honor of recent graduates. We walked down to see it. Arthur pointed out that is was the first time we had been away from home (it was a five minute walk) in the dark since mid-March. There has been nowhere to go. A crown fell off his tooth last week, and he made a dentist appointment for yesterday (dentists in MA can now open for emergencies, not regular cleanings). I have been inside grocery stores, but the dental office was the first building that was not our house in which he had been since March as well. We are starting to expand a little bit, though. We had Flo and her sweetheart over for a brief time on Saturday. I carefully measured out safe distances for the lawn chairs to be apart in the yard. We could see them, and they could look at the repaired garage roof and other attractions. Today we went to separate ends of the vigil in Lexington - I rode my bike to East Lexington, and Arthur walked just a little way from our house, to be near the two main centers of it. Almost everybody "took a knee" for nearly nine minutes, with church bells tolling the start and end time. I had taken along a cushion, and used both knees, knowing my body well enough to realize I couldn't do the requested thing, but nearly everyone around me managed. A small kid near me just sat down, and I saw a few people with lawn chairs who sat, but really, I was very impressed by people's knees. That's a long time on hard pavement. It was certainly long enough for the fucking police officers to have intervened to prevent George Floyd's murder.
The publicity beforehand had said that social distancing would be observed, but one had to try hard to make it happen. I staked out a spot and offered to move farther down the street when people crowded in (they politely moved instead), but the areas right near Follen Church and the green in the center were full of people with hardly any distance at all. Facial covering all 'round, though. One thing I have realized from all this is that a mask doesn't disguise people. I suppose to be effective it has to cover the whole face, including eyes. I saw lots of people I knew, and easily recognized them. Possibly more impressive, I was wearing a thing that covered me so much that only eyes were visible, plus a bicycle helmet, and friends still recognized me, including one who was biking past as she yelled hello to me by name. I keep being surprised by people's hair. Longer, grayer (or in the case of someone today, bluer, in the modern way). A lot of people actually look better, so maybe I should stop complaining about my hair, in case other people prefer it.