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We are all COVID-19, to mangle an old slogan of a local hockey team.

“Half the city is in the same situation as us, we’re all in this together,” Angela Zelensky said as she and her friend Valerie Matte stretched and worked out at the Kits Beach park.

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The two were laid off from their restaurant jobs over the weekend.

“I’m taking it day-to-day, trying not to stress about the money yet,” Matte added.

Like most people on Sunday who were seen at Kits along the water and at English Bay, Matte and Zelensky were keeping their distance, working with pulleys hooked to branches or using a park bench as a training prop, staying two metres apart.

“We’re being mindful,” Zelensky said. “I’ve noticed people moving out of the way walking down the street.

“This is new, it’s taking a few days I think for us to get the feel for it.

“It’s shocking, nothing like this has ever happened in our lives, not since the Spanish Flu.”

Zelensky has been reading about the 1918 flu pandemic to try to get a grasp of what we’re in store for. And like everyone else, she doesn’t know.