Where you live, are people resistant to wearing masks or are they all willingly wearing them?

Suburban Atlanta.

About 50/50 in stores, Post Office, etc..

Restaurants: Servers in almost all restaurants are wearing masks. Eaters no.

People driving – about 10% wear them (although I am not sure why)

Here in MA, masks are required when entering a grocery store. They are also limited to the amount of people that are allowed at one time. You wait in a socially-distanced line outside, and for each person that leaves the store, another person is allowed to enter. 100% compliance, because there is no choice.

In NH, however, my experience is quite different. If you go to Home Depot, you’re likely to see ~20% men wearing a mask, and about ~80% women wearing masks. There is no mask requirement.

Restaurants are still not open for dining in either state, although outside seating (with restrictions) is now available in some areas. Pickup is available.

I am not seeing nearly as many masks as before.

Masks are required in stores and I haven’t seen conflict about that but I’m only going to grocery stores. On walks and on the boardwalk, hardly anyone seems to be wearing them. I only went to the beach once and I was the only one with one on while walking around. I took it off after I sat.

And yes, there is a lot of fighting about it on local sites online. It pains me because the latest data I’ve read said we could almost eliminate the spread if everyone were masked.

I’ve said to friends that I feel like we’re living in the Wild West where everyone made up their own laws. I fault the disbelief in science and also the inconsistent messaging that we get which everyone politicizes.

You can’t enter a store or use public transport unless you’re wearing a mask. People grumble about the discomfort, but comply. I do occasionally obverse people cheating by leaving their nose uncovered, and very young children don’t have to wear a mask at all.

In parks and forests, few people wear masks but most are aware of distancing rules.

Less than half wear masks in Tacoma.

Here in the Bay most people are wearing them, especially as most stores are requiring them. I even see people wearing them while jogging and bike-riding. When I went up to the Sierras last week it was the complete opposite. Only a few small stores requiring them, most people not wearing them elsewhere.

I’d say about 35% wearing masks voluntarily.
As of tomorrow, no statewide rules are in effect in Missouri, so I expect that number to continue to decrease.

@elbanditoroso As for wearing a mask while driving…it may be more for the convenience of having a mask readily available so they don’t get to the store only to realize that their mask is home on the table. I eat out every day & I hang mine on my left ear until I get to the restaurant & I then put it on properly so I can go inside to check out whether or not I’ll be staying or getting my order to go. When I eat in, I choose a table as far away as possible from other customers & I remove my mask so I can eat. Once finished, I put my mask on to go to the cashier & my car. Many days I get home & realize that I’m still wearing my mask. I’ve found one that’s fairly comfortable & I forget that I’m wearing it. I don’t want to put it in my purse because God only knows what germs are lurking within my purse!!! So for me, it’s more of a convenience than a need to be safer in my car.

Now, to the Q asked here…it seems to be a hit or miss when it comes to others wearing masks. I’m still self-isolating so I don’t go out often. My once a day trip to my local restaurant is just about the only social interaction that I’m having. I’m still avoiding the stores & my bank only has the drive thru open without a prescheduled appointment. Between Amazon, Walmart, & Home Depot online, anything other than food that I need I order online & have delivered to my door. I eat out once a day & I go to the same restaurant & I schedule my trip for their slowest part of the day. Many days it’s just me & the wait staff. I have noticed as I drive by some of the local stores that it’s pretty much a 50/50 mix of wear or don’t wear. That, in itself, is one reason I’m choosing to distance myself fro the stores. I read this yesterday & I’m not sure how much I believe it. What I’m doing seems to be working for me so I think I’ll stick with it for a while longer.

@LadyMarissa You have indoor dining???

The Villages, FL. I’d say about 30% of customers don’t wear masks in stores. Most supermarket employees wear masks, I’m assuming the stores require them. Most small retail stores the employees have masks, but they often don’t wear them. Car dealerships near me almost none of the salespeople wear them. I’ve heard the restaurants near me the waiters wear masks. The take-out places, some have plastic up so the staff doesn’t need to wear masks. My post office has plexiglass so the staff doesn’t wear masks. About 30–50% of customers in the post office don’t wear masks.

@anniereborn where I live in N Georgia (about 50 miles from @LadyMarissa) I would say that about 40% of places are open for inside dining.

I was at one yesterday for breakfast where indoor tables – they skipped every other one – but outdoor tables were not socially distanced.

I was picking up pizza late last week and that placed had every other table closed off, but people were sitting and eating inside.

Our restaurants are at 50% inside if I am not mistaken, I have not eaten in one since March. We went to 50% about a week ago. Outside I don’t think there are much efforts to space tables.

I was in Orlando yesterday, it’s about an hour from me, and when I went to Trader Joes thee, they were controlling how many people were in the store at a time, so we had to line up. Where I live there are never lines or limits. I don’t know if that is an Orlando requirement for all stores, or if it is just Trader Joes, we don’t have Trader Joe’s in my city. There was still about 3 people per aisle in the store, but my mom tells me where she lives in Maryland, metro DC area, her grocery stores is much much more limiting, and she is never in an aisle with another person. If someone is there, she waits until the aisle is empty. The car dealership in Orlando the employees had on masks, and I think possibly they were giving paper masks to customers without masks, because quite a few customers had on the exact same paper mask. Orlando, is politically more blue than my city, and also there were many more cases there than where I live, and the recent fever indicators show Orlando with some “hot” areas but I don’t know how fast the cases are rising there I haven’t looked.

In my city a lot of people (not the majority, but enough people that it matters) believe covid is a democrat hoax and conspiracy and that masks make you sick.

@anniereborn Yes, we have inside dining again. Our governor opened us back up over a month ago. The restaurants that have chosen to open are operating at ½ capacity & all tables are between 6 & 10 feet apart. This particular restaurant has boothes so they block off every other booth so you still maintain a minimum of 6 feet between customers. All drinks are served in styrofoam cups. You have the option of flatware or plasticware depending on your comfort level. The wait staff wear masks & gloves. I usually go in around 3 or 4 in the afternoon which is their slowest time & it’s not unusual for me to be the only customer there until close to 5:00 when it starts to get busy. I leave before the real crowd arrives. With my disability, I can’t cook for myself so eating out is my only option other than takeout. I went in one day where most of the seats were taken & I didn’t feel comfortable eating in, so I got it to go that day. Other than that one occasion, I usually eat in!!!

I haven’t yet ventured out to any of our other restaurants. This has been my fave for 5 years or so & I feel comfortable there & know that the owner & staff will get my six if necessary. Their food is very much like what my Mom used to cook & I really enjoy it…plus they cook much better than I could possibly do IF I did cook for myself!!!

In my area southwest, we have had quite an increase in cases of corona virus. My experience while shopping for groceries, lots of people wearing their masks. The increase in numbers of virus tells me there are lots of people “not “following the rules”.

Every establishment in this town has a sign clearly posted at every available entrance telling you not to enter without a mask. The police and fire stations, churches, the mortuaries. The Uber drivers will leave you standing at the curb. I watched a masked bus driver tell a man attempting to board his bus to “get the fk off my bus and go mask up” to the applause of his passengers

Almost no one wears a mask here, except employees.
Also, pretty much all restrictions have been dropped. Restaurants are back open.

They are worn by a lot of cowards people & are apparently mandatory on public transport from this week.
I will not be wearing one…ever!

Mask use tapered off a bit here for a while but has picked back up. Our cases has gone up. They were supposed to start opening more things up last week but the governor nixed that and extended the closures. But mask use has gone back up. Nearly everyone in Safeway had one on while I was there yesterday.

Wearing one is pretty much the bare minimum a can person can do.

I would wear one on a subway or a bus or a train or anywhere where people are packed in. So far I’ve only worn one once, and it was for a Habitat function (a “Garden Party”) that was open to the public.
I’ll wear one to the meeting tonight, as requested.
Some people are so dumb, though. The clerk at Casey’s convenience store kept pulling her mask down to talk to us….smh.

North Carolina – - Raleigh state capitol – City Council is under active review may vote later this week, Wake County (state capitol is located) – - – under review and finally North Carolina Governor is looking to make it a requirement.

Zero, none in our Town now.
But shields still up at counters in retail and food stores.
National Park opened for Tourists now, but not respecting distance on streets etc.

I have trouble enough with extreme heat. If it’s very hot and I’m inside or out, I probably won’t be wearing a mask. It’s like wearing a winter hat on your face, and I just wouldn’t be able to handle it. I will put one on to enter an air conditioned store, but it would come off when I left. Of course I’d social distance always.

Where I live masks are rapidly disappearing.

We have to wear masks in grocery stores. Also been to a lot of doc appts lately. And of course they are mandatory anywhere medical related.

@ucme Well aren’t you the considerate one.

^ It’s a right-wing male insecurity thing. It’s emasculating to be told you shouldn’t kill people, apparently.

People here have been wearing masks way before the epidemic. They’re just part of the clothing. Most people are not tolerant to the dirty air and the sunlight. So when the epidemic came that wasn’t something that saw any changes. Some people who dislike wearing masks are now putting their preference aside, but they are in the minority. The only significant change here is the introduction of flashy colored masks in place of the usual plain ones.

@hmmmmmm

“It’s Emasculating to be told you shouldn’t kill people.“

That’s a strange observation. Considering that since the legend of Cain and Able, people of all the Abrahimic religions, plus Buddhism and other non theistic religions, have argued that killing is bad, are we to assume that they were all engaging in emasculation? Especially since they were, until modern times, generally paternalistic.

Fascinating.

Was that your dissertation? Or did you just think that up?

From what I’ve witnessed here in Madison, Wisconsin I’d guess about 75% of the population wears masks while shopping. About 40–50% of the people I see walking, biking, jogging wear masks.

An interesting observation I’ve made is that it is often the more well-to-do who don’t wear them, not the impoverished.

I have been out of my house once since the first week of March. I went to a grocery store a week ago.
Most people were wearing masks, and following the one way signs on the aisles, but I did see a few who obviously didn’t give a damn.
I had my own sanitizer with me which I slathered on before and after touching anything. I wore surgical gloves while putting items in my cart.