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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAre 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.
CurtEastPoint
(18,656 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)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).
LuvLoogie
(7,022 posts)Compliance is pretty good.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)I LOVE my masks, ...
samnsara
(17,634 posts)..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)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.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)QANON yes, science no.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)masks properly and do social distancing. Tourists, especially those from red states, not so much.
QED
(2,749 posts)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)We dont need no steenking masks!
Made one trip out todayto a convenience store. Subcontinental dude running the register wasnt wearing a mask. Fat redneck dude driving the beer delivery truck and filling the coolers wasnt wearing a mask. Emaciated meth-head redneck who walked into the store right behind me wasnt wearing a mask. I was wearing a mask. Daughter and I really dont fit in here.
-Laelth
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Red county.
Squinch
(50,993 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)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. 😷
Mixed Blue/Red County in Florida, mask compliance quite good.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)nocoincidences
(2,228 posts)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)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)Confirmed per capita cases in my rural county is now higher than in most cities and growing fast.
soryang
(3,299 posts)...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)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)...occasional nose dick jerk/jerkess.
I was in Trader Joes 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 didnt 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)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)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.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)We spent 10 daya in Ajijic a few years ago
Its one of our top options for retirement
TomSlick
(11,108 posts)At every business, the employees and I are appropriately masked but few others. Business have given up on attempting to make customers wear masks.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)yes indeed
Rhiannon12866
(205,909 posts)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)One does however, see assholes walking around with their masks around their neck, or under their nose.
Maraya1969
(22,495 posts)Very pretty. The only place I routinely do not see masks is at gas station convenience stores.