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mucifer

(23,560 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:42 PM Sep 2020

Are you in areas where people are settling into the mask thing pretty well?

Here in Chicago I am now noticing less people wearing procedure masks and KN95s and more wearing cloth masks with various patterns and statements. Some are pretty silly.

Somehow this is making me feel just a little bit better about humankind.

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Are you in areas where people are settling into the mask thing pretty well? (Original Post) mucifer Sep 2020 OP
Atlanta and I'm seeing pretty good compliance in stores, rest., etc. CurtEastPoint Sep 2020 #1
Pretty much. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #2
Chicago here, too. LuvLoogie Sep 2020 #3
Yes, in Eugene and almost all exclusively wear mask, and fun masks. I have seven. LizBeth Sep 2020 #4
yep..it makes me smile and when i see a cute mask I compliment the person.. samnsara Sep 2020 #5
I am in Santa Fe and everyone seems to be wearing masks. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #6
Nope Okies will not be told what to do by "libtards". redstatebluegirl Sep 2020 #7
Central Oregon Coast. Seems residents invariably wear Enoki33 Sep 2020 #8
Mostly but I see many with the mask on their chins QED Sep 2020 #9
Nope. Not in rural East Texas. Laelth Sep 2020 #10
Masks pretty much everywhere, though still exceptions. cwydro Sep 2020 #11
NY. Yes. Mask compliance is pretty good. We're not doing THAT again. Squinch Sep 2020 #12
Columbus here. I'm a shelter at home gal but, yes,... Guilded Lilly Sep 2020 #13
Masks rso Sep 2020 #14
Long Island, NY-- almost 100% compliance. TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #15
Folks in Virginia Beach nocoincidences Sep 2020 #16
Almost total compliance here Ohiogal Sep 2020 #17
No, not at all. Central IL, experiencing an explosion of cases. But still many unmasked. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #18
no, according to police 35 thousand people showed up for the "truck meet" soryang Sep 2020 #19
Manhattan. Very good compliance about mask-wearing. Golden Raisin Sep 2020 #20
Far northwest Chicago suburbs. Overall compliance quite high, with the... 3catwoman3 Sep 2020 #21
Yes. I'm in a small town about 100 miles north of San Francisco. Mr.Bill Sep 2020 #22
Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico Foolacious Sep 2020 #23
I love that area stopwastingmymoney Sep 2020 #29
Not in SW Arkansas. TomSlick Sep 2020 #24
the big stores here have Bubbas ensuring mask compliance Skittles Sep 2020 #25
When I went to the pharmacy for my prescription yesterday, there was a display of "fashion masks" Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #26
We're pretty well masked in New Jersey. NNadir Sep 2020 #27
People are pretty good here now. One girl at the hairdresser had a black sequined mask on. Maraya1969 Sep 2020 #28

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,829 posts)
2. Pretty much.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:44 PM
Sep 2020

I don't go into stores these days so I'm not sure how widespread compliance is locally, but I do see a lot of people with masks outside. I haven't heard of any maskhole incidents in my immediate area (Minneapolis).

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
4. Yes, in Eugene and almost all exclusively wear mask, and fun masks. I have seven.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:45 PM
Sep 2020

I LOVE my masks, ...

samnsara

(17,634 posts)
5. yep..it makes me smile and when i see a cute mask I compliment the person..
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:47 PM
Sep 2020

..its a great conversation starter. When i see an unmasked person at this point...they are either too compromised to wear a mask and should (for their safety) opt for curb side service..OR they are crazy...and I treat them as such.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,894 posts)
6. I am in Santa Fe and everyone seems to be wearing masks.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:54 PM
Sep 2020

Some people don't cover their nose, which makes me crazy.

And if you claim you can't wear a mask -- and quite frankly if doctors and nurses and the like can wear them for hours at a time, you can wear one for ten minutes -- just stay the fuck home. There's tons of delivery services. Use one of them. Stop being a selfish jerk.

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)
8. Central Oregon Coast. Seems residents invariably wear
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:59 PM
Sep 2020

masks properly and do social distancing. Tourists, especially those from red states, not so much.

QED

(2,749 posts)
9. Mostly but I see many with the mask on their chins
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:59 PM
Sep 2020

My take: they're really antimaskers but too chicken shit to go maskless and make a stink. So this is their protest. If you're gonna protest, protest with honor and don't wear the mask. Then you can be the Karen on the national news getting slapped upside the face by a concerned citizen (not Susan Collins, of course).

It's like what I tell students on senior ditch day: Ditch with honor, don't have your mommy call you in sick.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
10. Nope. Not in rural East Texas.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:02 PM
Sep 2020

“We don’t need no steenking masks!”

Made one trip out today—to a convenience store. Subcontinental dude running the register wasn’t wearing a mask. Fat redneck dude driving the beer delivery truck and filling the coolers wasn’t wearing a mask. Emaciated meth-head redneck who walked into the store right behind me wasn’t wearing a mask. I was wearing a mask. Daughter and I really don’t “fit in” here.

-Laelth

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
13. Columbus here. I'm a shelter at home gal but, yes,...
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:07 PM
Sep 2020

When I venture to curbside pick-up for groceries, basically all customers and employees going in and out wear masks.

Big variety of styles.

I see walkers and runners/cyclists and skateboards on the roadside. Maybe 3 out of 10 are in masks.

In my quiet condo neighborhood, most walkers stay quite socially distanced but very few wear masks. 😷

nocoincidences

(2,228 posts)
16. Folks in Virginia Beach
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:13 PM
Sep 2020

seem to be pretty compliant with mask-wearing. We've had a significant number of cases here, one of the VA hotspots.

I haven't been in a store in 7 months.

Ohiogal

(32,047 posts)
17. Almost total compliance here
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:33 PM
Sep 2020

Although I do see a few with masks under the nose, it drives me crazy.

Like someone said above, they are probably cult members who do that as a way of protesting

Midnight Writer

(21,788 posts)
18. No, not at all. Central IL, experiencing an explosion of cases. But still many unmasked.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:41 PM
Sep 2020

Confirmed per capita cases in my rural county is now higher than in most cities and growing fast.

soryang

(3,299 posts)
19. no, according to police 35 thousand people showed up for the "truck meet"
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:47 PM
Sep 2020

...last weekend at the speedway, and then went over to the beach in daytona. from the video i watched, the people were crowded together although the police tried to maintain social distancing. None had masks as far I could see on the beach.

Golden Raisin

(4,612 posts)
20. Manhattan. Very good compliance about mask-wearing.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:52 PM
Sep 2020

Also almost every store, bank, etc. will literally not let you in without a mask and limits the number of people allowed inside.

3catwoman3

(24,032 posts)
21. Far northwest Chicago suburbs. Overall compliance quite high, with the...
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 08:54 PM
Sep 2020

...occasional nose dick jerk/jerkess.

I was in Trader Joe’s a couple of days ago, and there was one customer, with her toddler in the cart seat, with no mask - not even one under her nose, under her chin, or even down around her neck. She looked quite fit and trim, and was walking at a brisk pace, so it didn’t seem that she would have been a medical exemption candidate because of respiratory problems.

It was surprisingly jarring to see someone in a public place without a mask even available.

I stayed as far away from her as possible.

Mr.Bill

(24,317 posts)
22. Yes. I'm in a small town about 100 miles north of San Francisco.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:03 PM
Sep 2020

We locked down early and our Director of health threatened to close businesses that did not enforce the mask rule. When I go out to grocery shop, put gas in the car, etc. I may see one or two people without masks, and frankly, that's a percentage that may have a genuine medical issue with wearing one. Some people resisted it for awhile and to be honest, masks were hard to find in early March. My wife made a few hundred of them and if we saw an elderly person without one we offered it to them. Most were grateful.

It's a little inconvenient in the heat of the summer, but the other side of the coin is it's going to feel great during the cold winter. We are a county of 60,000 people and six Covid deaths so far, four of which were in a convalescent home.

We are not "locked down", and have even taken a few trips out of county to visit grandchildren and great grandchildren. We've eaten outdoors at a restaurant a few times, and shop a few times a week. I'm 67 and my wife is 70 and has Asthma, so we are taking no chances. We are both retired so it's not difficult to stay home and play it safe. Bars and Gyms are closed, but I wouldn't get near those if they were open.

What's going on in some big cities is terrifying to me. I'm glad we live in a small town.

Foolacious

(497 posts)
23. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:47 PM
Sep 2020

Compliance is moderate-to-good, though it was better a few weeks ago. The governor has threatened to shut everything down if we hit either of two thresholds, one measuring new cases, the other hospital bed capacity.

TomSlick

(11,108 posts)
24. Not in SW Arkansas.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:05 AM
Sep 2020

At every business, the employees and I are appropriately masked but few others. Business have given up on attempting to make customers wear masks.

Rhiannon12866

(205,909 posts)
26. When I went to the pharmacy for my prescription yesterday, there was a display of "fashion masks"
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 07:45 AM
Sep 2020

Packages of masks in all kinds of colors and patterns, possibly in time for this week's school openings? Nice idea, but it also depressed the hell out of me since it means that this horrific pandemic has become just an accepted way of life.

On edit: After reading the previous replies - I live in Northeastern New York and masks are required pretty much everywhere, there are signs on every store/grocery/pharmacy/gas station entrance. And where I went yesterday there are specific doors for entrance and exit and a mask checker before anyone is allowed inside - and some stores have limits on the number of customers allowed inside at one time.

NNadir

(33,541 posts)
27. We're pretty well masked in New Jersey.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:33 AM
Sep 2020

One does however, see assholes walking around with their masks around their neck, or under their nose.

Maraya1969

(22,495 posts)
28. People are pretty good here now. One girl at the hairdresser had a black sequined mask on.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 10:14 AM
Sep 2020

Very pretty. The only place I routinely do not see masks is at gas station convenience stores.

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