Some just call it "attitude."

And probably a little bit of showing them libruls "we all don't buy into your mass hysteria".

Or do they think wearing a mask makes them look weak? After all, Herr Dumpster doesn't wear one!

My observations are quite the same as yours, MM.

I suppose they're not following any of the rules of self-protection. That may end up being very risky behavior that will come as a complete surprise to them when the coughing starts.

just as easily apply to a macho-man who won't wear a condom either. No mask = no condom; you can bet on it. It's that 'tude that makes for an early death.

That means no condoms when with their illicit love interests (straight or gay), then not being tested, no using a seatbelt while in their monster trucks, DUI, passing over double solid lines on the road to pass another vehicle, not checking the parachute before the jump, swimming in notorious shark infested waters during mense cycle, staring down the loaded gun barrel at the wrong time. The list is endless, and when not affecting innocent people, kinda makes me smile.

I DO wear the mask (but I don't have a gun rack!)!

So, I probably missed seeing you.

I own a pickup, too, but it's a little Ford Ranger, and I rarely take it to the supermarket, unless my wife has our other car.

Right now, the Ranger's bed is full of a winter's worth of fallen branches, waiting to be taken to the chipping yard to be turned into compost. I'll do that this week.

....and noticed the two other large, beer bellied, middle aged drivers did not have masks and were sort of giving me dirty looks. Maybe my imagination, or nothing to do with the mask. Gave them both a bright and cheery"howdy".

You would've been able to find their obituaries in your local newspaper.

other people thought. I would have only noticed that those clown were not wearing masks.

....the thoughts of other people?

It is just when I see that someone is clearly wrong and being an asshole about it, I don't give a shit about what they think or want. Now, if a person is sincerely confused or is trying but don't get it, I take time to work with such people. Clear enough???????

....not wearing masks", I took the "only noticed" to mean that you would have not been aware of what they might be thinking, drawing a contrast to my experience and response. I see that I must have been wrong to think that "only noticed" meant that, as you now tell me that you are not just aware of others, but "acutely aware".

Please remember that you responded to my post. You did this, I believe, to draw a distinction between me and you. Is that true? Why did you respond to my post if not to compare your presumably better response to a situation to my response?

In an effort to be "clear enough", I'll restate my question. Why did you respond to my post as you did?

It isn't noseyness, I just have that natural tendency to be acutely aware of my surroundings at all times. So I notice people that both have on masks and don't have on masks. I often look at all those people's faces to try to gauge what their basic disposition is, you can tell a lot from a person, facial expressions, at least the parts that are viewable. What I have seen consistently from people that were not wearing masks was what I took as an air of arrogance, my mind immediately go into "fuck them" mode and I could care less if they fell into a deep hole.

....I think I now understand that you would not "only notice" the lack of masks, but also, like me, be aware of the dirty looks from these two guys. Or, in your case, be "acutely aware". Am I right in thinking that you responded to my post to point out that you feel that you are less concerned about the opinions of others than me? More perceptive of their "basic dispositions" and quicker to dismiss their "arrogance"? Forgive me, but I'm still trying to understand why you responded to my post as you did.

I have no idea whether I am quicker than you at discerning people, I don't know you, so I am in no position to guage your level of perception. I am just saying that I have a very quick "fuck assholes" trigger.

Crotchless chaps.

figure was pretty close for the 9 am crowd. I actually keep a spare mask in the vehicle now until I get used to bringing it. Never would have imagined that six months ago.

Some food, mostly dry goods.
Masks were 100%.
Staff & customers. 100%.
Admittedly, there were probably under 60 people in the huge store, but 60 out of 60 is encouraging.
That said, I stopped for gas and 2 people went in & out of the station's building with no mask.

They are very predictably and proudly ignorant.

Stillwater, OK had to drop mandatory masking for entering retail stores because anti-maskers were getting violent (giving in is not a good way to deal with temper tantrums, but I guess if the toddler is carrying a gun...)

Texas park ranger is literally shoved into a lake because he's giving the rules on social distancing in the park

Woman screams at a reporter for wearing a mask-- spittle flying

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Trump is telling these people to hate and get angry-- because he loves the power, and they feed on their own anger. The anger is going to kill them one way or another, but he knows he can get anyone angry to follow him into hatred.

and wait for them to go extinct. May not take as long as what we used to think.

a few seconds to get the fuck away from me. Fortunately, even in my red county so far, I have not had to make that choice.

one that wears a mask. I'll be on the lookout for that. But I'd say you would be at least 90% correct.

any firm conclusions.

I notice if I say nothing the mask is sitting on counter at home while he is gone. I went shopping with him for first time since this and noticed he is still touching products he doesn’t buy. I really don’t think he knows he is doing it, a grocery habit we all have or had. When I called him on it he looked surprised.

He is trying but I think more for me, takes off shoes at door, washes hands.

I always have to remind Mr. O to take his mask and his phone when he leaves the house. He tends to be very absent minded. He's slowly getting better, though. When the quarantine first started, I gently reminded him that shaking hands with a guy in the store he hadn't seen in a while wasn't a good idea. He says it's impossible to remember 100% of the time. I said, try harder! We keep a bottle of hand sanitizer in the car and use it any time we have been in a public place.

And my husband said he understood. We went out to flower basket sale this morning at nursery and he kept his mask on longer than me. I took off while walking outside just put on indoors.

Because I forgot my focus and picked it up to see better exactly what it was. Realized instantly what I had done, shrugged it off, and put it in my cart. Had it for lunch today. It was actually quite tasty. LOL!

First of all everyone drives 4WD due to climate and roads
During the height of the pandemic so far about 50/50 white folks of either sex masked
Shockingly tho only about 1 in 10 native Americans are masked and at times they will be the majority of shoppers at Wal Mart

We have a rather harsh climate in the winter. However, not "everyone" drives a 4WD here, by any means. In fact, the percentage in a typical parking lot is maybe 25% on any given day.

It's not really 4WD. It's the big-ass pickup, really. That's what I was noticing. I wasn't looking at people in Subarus, which are all AWD, if I'm not mistaken. I wasn't looking at everything with all-wheel drive at all. Just big-ass pickup trucks. There are many, many of those around here, most of which are never driven off the paved roads.

There are very politically incorrect terms for Subaru vehicles and the people who drive them

I drive an AWD Volkswagen.

Older people of both races seem to, and so do women of all ages.

I don’t know what kind of vehicles they drive because these are in store observations.

The Democratic Party should be making masks with bold clear lettering on them saying,

'Trump & Republican FAILURE Protection'

Or any other damaging message, since so many people latch onto bumper sticker slogans. One of the billionaire Dem supporters could even set up an operation across the country to make and hand out masks for free or a minimal price. It would be funny to see some idiot with a MAGA hat wearing one of the masks, because they got it for FREE!

Seriously, the more people that see it, the more it will sink in for them and turn their ire onto Trump and republicans. Especially when things get even worse in Red States and the economy tanks even more. Trump wants to ignore the virus and throw everything open right away, because he knows the economy will get much worse... Trump knows that he has been completely AWOL for 4-5 months and doesn't have a clue how to resolve COVID-19. That is why he pushed it all the responsibility on Governors. Because Trump only knows how to 'play' fake reality on tv and is a dismal pathetic failure in real life.

Besides, Dear Leader won't wear one, so they're not going to, either.

FWIW, I have noticed the same thing during my shopping forays. I noticed a surprising number of young 20-something women not wearing masks, either. And, like the Bubbas, they were pretty lax on the social distancing, too. They all wandered around the store with a clueless look on their faces. It's as if they had never even been on a grocery run. Something tells me that might actually be the case with many of them.

So, I'm only seeing it during the morning hours. I typically go at 9 AM, when I can park pretty close to the store without any problem. Most people are observing proper distancing where I shop. Most people are wearing masks, and many are also wearing gloves.

I rarely find myself in any situation where I can't keep my distance from other shoppers at that hour.

Even without the crowds, there are always still at least a few slack-jawed, blank-staring knuckleheads in the store. As for masks, it depends on which stores I shop. Most of the shoppers at Kroger and Publix have been masked. In Aldi and Bi-Lo, maybe half. I do my best to keep away from others, but some make things difficult. I am seriously thinking of just restricting myself to pick-up at Kroger.

end of Feb...mask, gloves, felt somewhat disorienting..hubby has been doing the shopping..and I was feeling guilty - I can't say 80% wearing masks - maybe 40%..under my mask I was saying "stupid" to everyone..they couldn't hear me..young, old, and every age in-between..

AZ has been slow to test, or release data, and I do think some people, for whatever reason, are not taking this serious enough..

Last night I created an order at Frys for PU tonight..first time evah..we'll see..

So insecure.

Tiny, very tiny.

OT, but I liked to go camping a lot - before the pandemic. Small "c" camping - in a van.

Campground smoke is a problem for me. At peak season, the smoke sometimes gets so thick that you would call the cops on your neighbors if it happened in your neighborhood. No matter how big and fancy the motor coach extravanza, the first thing the guy does is build a big smoky fire. 20 feet from the next guys.

Some primeval instinct must kick in to protect the womenfolk and offspring from wild beasts, and to cook the meat from the big hunt that isn't going to happen. I've been in campgrounds where these families sit like bumps on logs in forest-fire like haze to "enjoy" the great outdoors.

These are probably guys who don't wear facemasks either.

Baffling.

I also wear a mask.

My small ‘equipment’ does not factor in.

It is exactly this type of man that has to carry assault weapons - they have fragile egos and really don't care about anyone else but themselves They think big trucks and weapons prove how tough they are!!! I wonder if they would feel like such macho men with a little truck and no weapons.

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I'm not certain, though.

Although I am not sure if I would be attacked by outraged trumpanzees for the suit or the message.

It literally kills.

Rigid male stereotypes are damaging.

... one of those big trucks who was NOT a right-winger too.

I’m sure there’s SOME full-sized truck owners who are liberal — most likely among the guys who really NEED a truck that size for their job — but I’ve personally never met ONE based on bumper stickers, or coworkers who drive them and later reveal their political thoughts.

Edit:
It gives them an opportunity to...
1. Flip the bird to the environment, associated in their minds with liberals;
2. Bully other drivers. (When I was driving a Prius, it was always a large truck that would tailgate me even if I was driving well over the speed limit.)

Our local market requires masks, or you can’t go in.

Bandannas etc

Just saying.

I have not been in a grocery store for weeks. However, I do get pickup, and the grocery store parking lot is fascinating to me. I observe a real mix of mask usage here. Old, young, some with, some without.


Peace

I live in Central Washington, an area known for being "conservative". That has been gradually changing but still a lot of freedumb rednecks in the area. I see the same thing here. People driving overly large pickups with gigantic tires on them and none of them wearing masks. Additionally they are typically the ones who drive like they own the road with no consideration for anyone else on the same highway. Goes with the type of personality that is attracted to these gas guzzling monsters.
Anyway, thankfully the governor of this state has been doing his job and has kept the state in stay at home status for a while and appears to be keeping it that way until the end of May at least.
We have more than our share of Covidiots around here demanding that they be allowed to go back to normal immediately. You can't talk sense to them. Logic doesn't work with brainless morons. They'll just come back with some ridiculous conspiracy theory and continue spewing their hate and stupidity.
I figure that eventually some of them will get their way in some states, maybe even mine. It won't change anything. Without a vaccine we'll just see the deaths in those areas begin to climb again as a result. Eventually, once again, the affected state will have to re enter lockdown or completely fall apart.
If this happens in your area I would advise you all to just continue wearing masks, stay at home, and ignore the urge to act like everything is normal. Its not and won't be until a vaccine is available. Tell all of your progressive friends to do the same. Lets be the ones that survive this pandemic. The way I see it these covidiots will basically be eliminating themselves from the planet. We may even go through a few cycles of reopening and closing. Doesn't matter, until there is a vaccine just continue on as we are staying at home and being careful.
I have the idea that Darwin basically got his theory of survival of the fittest backwards. Its not "survival of the fittest". It's really "departure of the dumbest". Let the "dumb" depart if they want. Stay smart and survive and we'll end up finally controlling the politics in this country. And that is perfectly fine by me.

I’m genuinely surprised by how readily people in Riverside County and SoCal in general are complying with the mandatory mask order, OC beaches notwithstanding.

To Ukiah to be able to shop without a mask before the rules changed there. She is a very educated democrat. I was shocked! I have no idea what to say to her email.

We have been close friends for over 25 years. When I read the email I was like why are you doing something so stupid? She is older than me 70 and had a rough time over 6 weeks this winter with a cough from bronchitis.

Of all the people at the store only three did not have masks. A 20-30 something, a 40-50 something, and about a 70-something. All three of them ignored directional signs in the store, picked things up and put them back, and got right up next to other people.

One of them elbowed me aside to brush past me to get to an open checkout lane and another leaned over me to grab the divider when she got behind me in my lane.

All three were women. I wanted to scream.

I have never really shopped much since I am single and one trip shopping goes a long way.

You are right, men driving the biggest vehicles seem to be the least likely to be masked.

I think that as more people have family or someone they know get sick from covid19, more people will be wearing masks.

Spreadin' their diseases far and wide...

Woman wearing a mask and the male is not.