Yeah. My local grocery stores. Whole Foods more than Stop and Shop, but in either one here, I will often see a majority of folks wearing masks, even when it is no longer required.
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Yeah. My local grocery stores. Whole Foods more than Stop and Shop, but in either one here, I will often see a majority of folks wearing masks, even when it is no longer required.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
Same here in Portland. The mask requirements have been lifted, but people still wear them on public transit, in grocery stores, and in restaurants (myself included.) But we're all a bunch of granola-eating tree hugging lefties anyway. According to my family back in the South, we're not "real Americans" up here.
FitzTheRuke
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North of you in Canada (Vancouver) it's pretty much the same. Only a very small per cent are quick to give up their masks in indoor public places, and those tend to be quite vocal, unpopular, and clearly brainwashed by conspiracy media. Most people (IMO without a formal poll), even if they themselves aren't fond of masks (or particularly worried about Covid) will wear their masks to keep others comfortable and happy.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
The primary purpose of masks is to stop outgoing Covid, not incoming Covid. Unless you have one of the N95? P95?(I can never remember the number) masks, they are almost useless for stopping Covid from getting in to you. That's why it's so important for everyone to wear masks. Studies show that if everyone is wearing a mask, spread drops by around 70%.
Getting it by contact and then touching your eyes and mouth is also unlikely. It can happen, but by far the primary method of getting it is airborne. The CDC has been saying this for a long time now. It's the same with ingestion. You don't catch it through your stomach, it needs to get into your lungs.
The staff stopped wearing masks at the local (Columbia, SC) bagel shop a few weeks ago (although sometimes they would just pull them up when customers came in). The sandwich place near my office just stopped recently.
Started playing lunch time MtG in person once a week at the nearby middle-eastern restaurant again last month. They still have the mask sign up, and this was the first time I've seen customers inside without one waiting for carry out. :-( All three of us playing are vaccinated and the sitting area is really empty. Tired of getting stomped on in our social/75% games I put my pretty reasonable Sigarda Voltron deck back together. It still has a good chance of being way too much in a 3 player game. Needless to say the player who cast Zur's Weirding right after I cast her on Turn 5 wasn't happy to see me reveal the Hyena Umbra, Daybreak Coronet, and Winds of Rath in my hand.
In any case, I generally mask in places now if I see the staff or a few customers doing it. At least one Food Lion (grocery store) employee has been masked each time I've gone in, but the % seems to be going down. Customer masking seems random there.
Started playing lunch time MtG in person once a week at the nearby middle-eastern restaurant again last month. They still have the mask sign up, and this was the first time I've seen customers inside without one waiting for carry out. :-( All three of us playing are vaccinated and the sitting area is really empty. Tired of getting stomped on in our social/75% games I put my pretty reasonable Sigarda Voltron deck back together. It still has a good chance of being way too much in a 3 player game. Needless to say the player who cast Zur's Weirding right after I cast her on Turn 5 wasn't happy to see me reveal the Hyena Umbra, Daybreak Coronet, and Winds of Rath in my hand.
In any case, I generally mask in places now if I see the staff or a few customers doing it. At least one Food Lion (grocery store) employee has been masked each time I've gone in, but the % seems to be going down. Customer masking seems random there.
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In the south-eastern US I'd give more credence to that explaining things more if there weren't so many people who were "numb" almost immediately (claiming masks didn't work, various cures worked, it was a hoax, the deaths weren't real, the schools should be full capacity, students shouldn't be wearing masks, claiming no evidence the vaccines work, boss ordering staff not to wear masks, having large unmasked gatherings, governors reinforcing some of those messages, etc...).
I certainly believe the folks who've actually been being careful over the past year are tired of it, I know I am and have slacked off some! It feels like something else from a lot of others here in the land of 43% vacc rate (of those age 12+) when the centers started shutting down from lack of interest well over a month ago.
That was the official stance until November (I think that was November). Since then FFP2 is mandatory and the community mask that were hailed with exactly your argumentation for the last 9 months were decried everywhere as useless excercise
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I'm not sure what you mean here. The community masks are not a useless exercise, they just work one way, not both.
According to the german Corona Schutzverordnung which was done during our third wave, they are insufficient and you do no longer comply with the Maskenpflicht if you are wearing one and will be treated as if wearing no mask at all as far as penalties go. And how quickly the messages boards shifted over to this stance
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
According to several studies conducted by multiple countries, everyone wearing them reduced transmission by about 70%.
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