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What is the mask situation like where you are?

What is the mask situation like where you are?

  • Masks required in public places/businesses due to state mandate

    Votes: 27 54.0%

  • Masks required in public places/businesses due to local (County/Municipal) mandate

    Votes: 8 16.0%

  • No state/local mandate but most people wear masks anyway

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • No mandate and most people do not wear mask

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • COVID-19 comedy option

    Votes: 5 10.0%
  • Total voters
    50
I am in IL and there has been a state mandate for masks for quite some time. You are required to wear a mask in public places and in any place of business. You don't need to wear them outside if you can maintain social distancing. However, if you cannot maintain 6 feet outdoors then you must wear a mask.

There is a high rate of compliance here. But, in the last few days, I have seen people taking them off in stores or not wearing them over their noses. Still I would say about 95% of people are following the rules.
 
Almost everyone wears their masks in public when social distancing not possible here in PA. Best guess 95%

I don't wear mine when out riding bike. Gyms opened but I don't feel comfortable going back yet.
 
HomerJS said:
Almost everyone wears their masks in public when social distancing not possible here in PA. Best guess 95%

I don't wear mine when out riding bike. Gyms opened but I don't feel comfortable going back yet.
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You're in Wisconsin right? Or is that some other user.

EDIT - NVM I always get you mixed up with Homerboy lol.
 
pete6032 said:
I am in IL and there has been a state mandate for masks for quite some time. You are required to wear a mask in public places and in any place of business. You don't need to wear them outside if you can maintain social distancing. However, if you cannot maintain 6 feet outdoors then you must wear a mask.

There is a high rate of compliance here. But, in the last few days, I have seen people taking them off in stores or not wearing them over their noses. Still I would say about 95% of people are following the rules.
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I'm in the Northwest Suburbs and this is what I see too. High compliance but there are a few people that take them off or wear them under their nose.
 
Relatively good compliance from my experience. They started to let up about 3 weeks ago as directed by the state, and yea, people let their guard down (not moi), but with a bad spike the mandate went out about a week and a half ago to put the masks back on and close up the bars and restaurants. (Washington state)
 
pete6032 said:
I am in IL and there has been a state mandate for masks for quite some time. You are required to wear a mask in public places and in any place of business. You don't need to wear them outside if you can maintain social distancing. However, if you cannot maintain 6 feet outdoors then you must wear a mask.

There is a high rate of compliance here. But, in the last few days, I have seen people taking them off in stores or not wearing them over their noses. Still I would say about 95% of people are following the rules.
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Has not been my experience in Northern IL, people are OK at grocery stores but anywhere else people seem to totally ignore guidelines. We went to get takeout from downtown in a town by us, tons of people out hanging out with no masks, you drive past bars and stuff and they are packed too with no one with masks on. I'm predicting a big spike here and stuff getting shut down again, no one is being responsible with the reopening of stuff here.
 
We have a statewide requirement that goes into effect today. Made some grocery runs over the weekend and it was a shit show. Less than 2/3 wearing masks and good 25-30% of those with masks wearing them incorrectly (below the nose). Got a cabin up north rented for next week, but we are certainly going to skip the tourist traps to limit exposure risk.
 
VashHT said:
Has not been my experience in Northern IL, people are OK at grocery stores but anywhere else people seem to totally ignore guidelines. We went to get takeout from downtown in a town by us, tons of people out hanging out with no masks, you drive past bars and stuff and they are packed too with no one with masks on. I'm predicting a big spike here and stuff getting shut down again, no one is being responsible with the reopening of stuff here.
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This is the behavior that is going to prolong not lessen the economic pain of the pandemic. Its depressing how few people seem to get that.
 
I'd say about 90% of the people I run into are wearing them, taking this seriously. Not ignoring distancing either.

The other 10% seem to be the mindless Fox Noise reactionaries who delight in either not wearing masks, or wearing them incorrectly on purpose. It seems the approval of a traitor and his agenda of undermining democracy correlates strongly with a strong resentment or outright rejection of science and common sense. These assholes will pack around body armor, shields, helmets, flags, tiki torches, backpacks while open carrying loaded weapons, but 3-5grams of cloth on the face? Well that's fucking tyranny.
 
No Legal Mandate, but some Businesses require them. The Provincial and Federal Health authorities have Recommended Masks, but not Mandated them. Most People seem to be using Masks.
 
SE Wisconsin here... I'd say that indoors, most people are wearing them. Clearly 90% or so. Outdoors, virtually nobody.
Starting today, our offices require them unless you are sitting at your desk
 
brycejones said:
We have a statewide requirement that goes into effect today. Made some grocery runs over the weekend and it was a shit show. Less than 2/3 wearing masks and good 25-30% of those with masks wearing them incorrectly (below the nose). Got a cabin up north rented for next week, but we are certainly going to skip the tourist traps to limit exposure risk.
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State?
 
Even though there is an order by state and county I still see more than a quarter not wearing masks in Kaufman and Rockwall counties. Even more not wearing them right.

Dallas County is marginally better.
 
MD: statewide mandate for masks indoors since ~late March early April. Still in effect, and with generally good compliance (where I live anyway; not too sure about the hayseed parts of the state, but then transmission there has been very low). All private and public gatherings had been restricted to no more than 10, bumped to 50, and now I think it's been removed or "at discretion."

Compliance there has been relatively poor, especially private gatherings. HD and Lowes and grocery stores have been regulating and limiting customer numbers since early April, but that is no longer in effect.
 
You know, I read the newspapers for today and yesterday. I know Governor Newsom is trying to manage the crisis in a state with some 35 million people -- a diverse state where there are three, concentrated megalopolises and areas west and east of the Sierra Nevada of low population density. The political hues are predictable in different congressional districts.

I know there has been resistance to mask precautions -- the news coming from places like Orange County, where the Trumpers are all in a snit about their "freedom".

I don't have the slightest idea of the specific mask requirements in the state or in this or that part of the state. I'm totally ignorant of the specific orders or their penalties. And I don't care if I remain ignorant of the specifics, because my personal practice now includes donning a mask even when there's a knock at my front door.

I was wearing masks in February, and enjoyed going out and about dressed up like a Clint Eastwood bank-robber, or like Dustin Hoffman in "Outbreak". It was fun, but I had a heightened sense of the risk given my age and conditions.

People in this country, given their presidential choice of 2016 and other collective decisions, seem to have a primitive idea of risk. They may have always been ignorant of the simple fact that the institution of government in whatever time or place or type is to reduce collective risk -- in public health, in military preparedness, in so many ways.

When Douglas MacArthur executed the Inchon Landing, it was a calculated risk based on a best hair-splitting guess about the tides, and he agonized over it through the landing operation. He couldn't afford the slightest mistake, jeopardizing the entire project and the lives of his men.

When you go to the BlackJack tables at the casino, you can either be a practiced card-counter or just a seat-of-the-pants risk-taker. If you aren't a complete fool, you limit the amount of cash you plan to put at risk, and embrace the possibility of losing all of it before you enter the casino. Or -- intending to count cards, you still know you could lose it all, but over the long run, you expect to lose some and win a bit more.

But, like the Inchon Landing, there are situations in which you cannot afford to take the slightest risk -- say -- of a single COVID particle entering your nostrils.
 
I don't know what the official status is around here--Orlando, 2nd place in the Covid epicenter race to Miami!--as I've been self-quarantining myself and family since March. The family part is the hard part, by far, with teenagers in the house.

I go out pretty infrequently; I shop curbside or have stuff delivered, but curbside you can see people coming in and out of stores. I go across town to a commercial property we own and are fixing up. Up until yesterday, mask-wearing was hit or miss. On one trip I'd guess it was 50%; the next it was 10%. Yesterday it was 100% at Petsmart and Lowe's for the time I was able to see. Sadly, a couple weeks ago the mask-wearing from all the people waiting at crowded bus stops was 0%--not a single mask. These are people who very likely will pay the highest cost if they get this--you don't ride a bus in Orlando if you can afford not to, it's 9000 degrees with frequent storms, many uncovered stops and a horrible bus system. We are a sprawling highway-era-built city and getting across town on a bus can take several hours.

All of this is a sliding scale of risks...few of us can be truly risk-free,so you try to minimize risk best you can. Even if you are exposed, less exposure is better than more as it can affect severity (or so the medical research is showing). Masks are an EXTREMELY easy way to minimize risks for both yourself and others, and it says a lot about the modern Facebook-addled American that it's apparently too much of a burden to contemplate.
 
Warshington state...masks have been mandated by the state for a few weeks...but by the county since...March or April I think. Compliance is getting better, especially since the most recent order from the governor makes businesses responsible for enforcing the rule. Of course, there are always a few who refuse.
 
It's solid for indoor spaces here in Denver proper, grading to outright stupidity in the burbs & beyond. Masks outdoors are kinda optional. Every once in awhile I see somebody who wears a mask to get thru the door, takes it off once inside. I figure it should be legal to give 'em jolt of pepper spray, but that's just me.
 
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