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Post by papercrafteradvocate on May 30, 2021 13:45:47 GMT
Lots! I still se a lot of people wearing them.
We ran to Costco yesterday and most of the customers were wearing them but employees were not.
We still require them where I work.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2021 13:50:10 GMT
I know several people who had Covid, including teachers who most likely acquired it at school because they went nowhere else.
I personally know one person who died, and two people around my age still suffering the effects of long Covid.
I find it shocking that people in the US claim not to know anyone who had Covid.
I wonder if you live where there has been a lot of Covid denial, people were less likely to admit that they had it, or get tested when they had symptoms.
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Post by milocat on May 30, 2021 14:28:05 GMT
Saw this on FB and thought it was funny: I believe the dropping of the masks is part of a larger conspiracy theory. Their ultimate goal is to get us to start wearing bras, makeup and real pants again. I'm not falling for it.
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Post by kelbel827 on May 30, 2021 14:52:27 GMT
Ohio technically drops theirs on 6/2 for all, and currently vaccinated can go without. I was one of the only ones in Target yesterday with a mask on and I've been vaccinated since early February. I had numerous people tell me I could take it off and lie about my vaccination status, and the pharmacist thanked me, and offered me a vaccine. She was thrilled when I told her I was already vaccinated. I saw people I know in Target and I know they aren't vaccinated and they had no mask. I'll keep mine on indoors until I decide to take it off. Outdoors, I'll keep it off.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on May 30, 2021 14:58:41 GMT
I have noticed a good amount going in and out of stores. We are vaccinated but still wear ours.
But how about the 17,000 fans at the Bruins game last night at the Td Garden in Boston?! Mostly no masks,and no distancing. Lots of screaming, singing, cheering. People honestly were having the best time. It feels strange to see clips of it online and on the news. Boston went from super strict to this.
The Celtics will be having almost full capacity tonight.
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Post by lisacharlotte on May 30, 2021 16:40:48 GMT
I know several people who had Covid, including teachers who most likely acquired it at school because they went nowhere else. I personally know one person who died, and two people around my age still suffering the effects of long Covid. I find it shocking that people in the US claim not to know anyone who had Covid. I wonder if you live where there has been a lot of Covid denial, people were less likely to admit that they had it, or get tested when they had symptoms. I live in a city that’s in the top 50 for population. I don’t have kids in school, I work outside the home. I have a small social circle. I don’t know anyone that had COVID.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 30, 2021 21:57:50 GMT
I know several people who had Covid, including teachers who most likely acquired it at school because they went nowhere else. I personally know one person who died, and two people around my age still suffering the effects of long Covid. I find it shocking that people in the US claim not to know anyone who had Covid. I wonder if you live where there has been a lot of Covid denial, people were less likely to admit that they had it, or get tested when they had symptoms.I think this is a big part of it. People who didn’t know if they had it because they were asymptomatic or simply because they didn’t WANT to know if they had it so they never got tested. ETA: Or in the very early days when it was impossible to get a test so people didn’t know because of that.
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Post by christine58 on May 30, 2021 22:10:57 GMT
I know under 20 people who had COVID I don't know anyone who died from it.
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Post by sassyangel on May 30, 2021 22:41:35 GMT
I just went to costco. In a Sunday (busy) store I counted 4 customers wearing masks - so maybe optimistically 5%. Interestingly, almost every single employee *was* wearing one. Which I assume means either they’re not vaccinated, or just realistically realize that most people will not be, and have opted to wear them.
Given our vax rate I feel pretty safe in saying most people here suck. The lack of integrity people have on an honor system, is just depressing.
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Post by longtimenopea on May 30, 2021 23:10:17 GMT
I know several people who had Covid, including teachers who most likely acquired it at school because they went nowhere else. I personally know one person who died, and two people around my age still suffering the effects of long Covid. I find it shocking that people in the US claim not to know anyone who had Covid. I wonder if you live where there has been a lot of Covid denial, people were less likely to admit that they had it, or get tested when they had symptoms. I hear people say they didn't know anyone who had covid. Most of them are people who wanted to pretend this was just a cold. My mother-in-law died of it, along with one of my friends who is my age, and more of my mother's friends than I could keep up with. So when people say they didn't know anyone who had it, I say that they were very fortunate, because in my circle not only did lots of people have it but not all of us made it through. I can see how if you kept your group very small maybe you could all have avoided it, and that is very plausible. Out of my immediate work group (four of us) none of us had it. But in my wider friend group, a lot, a lot of people had it. Not many were very ill, but some. And so many of us lost someone. I confess I often feel really dismissed when someone says they didn't know anyone who had it. Usually it is said with the implication that it wasn't as big a deal as all that.
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Post by Merge on May 30, 2021 23:16:41 GMT
More reporting on Houston. Today we went to two different garden centers. One was a local retail plant store, and the other was more of a boutique place specializing in native plants in a fancier part of town. Both almost entirely outside.
No masks at what I would describe as the local Walmart of plant stores. 90% masked at the boutique place.
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Post by sassyangel on May 30, 2021 23:33:01 GMT
I know several people who had Covid, including teachers who most likely acquired it at school because they went nowhere else. I personally know one person who died, and two people around my age still suffering the effects of long Covid. I find it shocking that people in the US claim not to know anyone who had Covid. I wonder if you live where there has been a lot of Covid denial, people were less likely to admit that they had it, or get tested when they had symptoms. I hear people say they didn't know anyone who had covid. Most of them are people who wanted to pretend this was just a cold. My mother-in-law died of it, along with one of my friends who is my age, and more of my mother's friends than I could keep up with. So when people say they didn't know anyone who had it, I say that they were very fortunate, because in my circle not only did lots of people have it but not all of us made it through. I can see how if you kept your group very small maybe you could all have avoided it, and that is very plausible. Out of my immediate work group (four of us) none of us had it. But in my wider friend group, a lot, a lot of people had it. Not many were very ill, but some. And so many of us lost someone. I confess I often feel really dismissed when someone says they didn't know anyone who had it. Usually it is said with the implication that it wasn't as big a deal as all that. I don’t live in a big metropolitan city, and I know people who died from it, and lots of people who had it. The last one who had it, had it only just a few weeks ago, and didn’t get tested. Just knew she had it from definite loss of taste/smell, and so stayed home for two weeks.
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Post by Skellinton on May 31, 2021 1:20:33 GMT
Went to Costco, outside of Portland but definitely on the Trump side of town. Masks are not required by anyone who is vaccinated there and they had sign up letting us know that but even when waiting outside everyone had a mask on. Inside I saw 3 groups where at least one person wasn’t wearing a mask but all employees on the floor were wearing masks. When I went to check out one cashier did not have a mask on for the rest did. The receipt checkers were one mask, one no mask.
My unscientific observation was that the people not wearing masks were little more Republican looking (flag shirts, soccer goal looking mustaches, much more cowboy looking then people in Portland dress-wranglers and actual cowboy boots) so I kept my mask on. Around here I worry that people will think I am a Trump supporter if I don’t. And Costco is the first place I have seen that says masks are not required. There is a contingent of people who have booths and flags and signs for Trump 2024 or Fuck Biden near the Costco that have a certain style most people in our area don’t wear. The maskless people in Costco all dressed similar to the ones I see there. I know it sounds awful and discriminatory, but anyone who is familiar with Portland knows that style just isn’t that common here. Obviously not everyone dressed real cowboy style here is a Trumper, but it is definitely more likely then not.
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Post by cmpeter on May 31, 2021 2:23:16 GMT
I went to two local malls this weekend. Saturday I saw one family not wearing masks (Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, WA). Today I was at Bellevue Square and everyone had a mask on).
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Post by lbp on Jun 1, 2021 13:48:45 GMT
SW Virginia here. I went to Sam's this weekend and few people had on masks. I am fully vaccinated and quit wearing mine when the mandate was lifted. I did go to DSW Shoe store and they still had a sign on the door that required masks so I put mine on when I went in/
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Post by julie5 on Jun 1, 2021 13:58:06 GMT
I live in southern Indiana and lately it has occured to me that it’s not so much the republican thing as it is old farmers thing. But the virus was never taken seriously. Now that Walmart has removed mask requirements, you can’t even tell we are still in a pandemic. I like I said, it’s not the “you’re infringing on my rights!!!” People as much as it is people who think it’s just a flu. Ignorance is still ignorance amd I’m happy to wear my mask amd venture out less often since no one seems to care anymore.
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Post by finsup on Jun 1, 2021 20:58:39 GMT
I know several people who had Covid, including teachers who most likely acquired it at school because they went nowhere else. I personally know one person who died, and two people around my age still suffering the effects of long Covid. I find it shocking that people in the US claim not to know anyone who had Covid. I wonder if you live where there has been a lot of Covid denial, people were less likely to admit that they had it, or get tested when they had symptoms. I hear people say they didn't know anyone who had covid. Most of them are people who wanted to pretend this was just a cold. My mother-in-law died of it, along with one of my friends who is my age, and more of my mother's friends than I could keep up with. So when people say they didn't know anyone who had it, I say that they were very fortunate, because in my circle not only did lots of people have it but not all of us made it through. I can see how if you kept your group very small maybe you could all have avoided it, and that is very plausible. Out of my immediate work group (four of us) none of us had it. But in my wider friend group, a lot, a lot of people had it. Not many were very ill, but some. And so many of us lost someone. I confess I often feel really dismissed when someone says they didn't know anyone who had it. Usually it is said with the implication that it wasn't as big a deal as all that. I’m so sorry for your losses.
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Post by creativegirl on Jun 4, 2021 18:17:08 GMT
I live in the California Bay Area and everyone is still masked here. I haven't seen someone in a store unmasked yet (I just went to Target and the dollar store yesterday). CA mandates don't change until June 15th so we'll see what happens then. Almost every adult I know personally (my family and friends and at my work) is vaccinated now. We will still continue to mask for awhile in my household because I have young children.
Also, I find it very difficult to believe many people don't know anyone that's had COVID. I know many people that have had it. I know younger people still suffering after effects and had a neighbor pass away from it.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 4, 2021 18:55:55 GMT
More reporting on Houston. Today we went to two different garden centers. One was a local retail plant store, and the other was more of a boutique place specializing in native plants in a fancier part of town. Both almost entirely outside. No masks at what I would describe as the local Walmart of plant stores. 90% masked at the boutique place. I've been out more since the CDC announcement and no longer wear a mask. The first week I would nearly always be one of just a few, or the only one without a mask. This past week I've seen more without masks, but I'd say the majority are still in masks. Costco and Target (in my area) were still about 80% with masks this week. Walmart was at least 90% in masks last week. Staff in all the places I've been (retail and restaurants) have been wearing masks. The funny thing is that since the CDC's announcements I've seen so many more people with their masks below their nose, something I rarely saw before. All I can figure is baby steps? As for knowing people with Covid, no one in my family or circle of friends has had it. DH has a friend who claims to have had it, but since he is one of the biggest bullshitters I know, I'm a bit skeptical of his claim. A few of DD's friends got it last year at Rodeo, but she never did. No one in any of our circle has died of Covid. Cancer has had a bigger impact on us. I have lost a couple of friends to cancer and had 3 more diagnosed with cancer.
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Post by cmpeter on Jun 4, 2021 19:02:03 GMT
Just about everyone here (suburb of Seattle) is still masking up. Dd and I went to an outdoor mall yesterday and didn’t see anyone unmasked.
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Post by Merge on Jun 4, 2021 19:03:24 GMT
More reporting on Houston. Today we went to two different garden centers. One was a local retail plant store, and the other was more of a boutique place specializing in native plants in a fancier part of town. Both almost entirely outside. No masks at what I would describe as the local Walmart of plant stores. 90% masked at the boutique place. I've been out more since the CDC announcement and no longer wear a mask. The first week I would nearly always be one of just a few, or the only one without a mask. This past week I've seen more without masks, but I'd say the majority are still in masks. Costco and Target (in my area) were still about 80% with masks this week. Walmart was at least 90% in masks last week. Staff in all the places I've been (retail and restaurants) have been wearing masks. The funny thing is that since the CDC's announcements I've seen so many more people with their masks below their nose, something I rarely saw before. All I can figure is baby steps? As for knowing people with Covid, no one in my family or circle of friends has had it. DH has a friend who claims to have had it, but since he is one of the biggest bullshitters I know, I'm a bit skeptical of his claim. A few of DD's friends got it last year at Rodeo, but she never did. No one in any of our circle has died of Covid. Cancer has had a bigger impact on us. I have lost a couple of friends to cancer and had 3 more diagnosed with cancer. I think my area of town is more blue than yours, which matters in this case only because it usually predicts a higher rate of mask compliance. But I was honestly shocked to walk into Old Navy and Target after the CDC announcement and see 100% masking still happening. I wonder if people who are retired and/or generally are and know people who were able to work from home the whole time were less likely to know people who had Covid. Maybe not - it could be just random anecdotal stuff here - but I like to look for patterns and reason, so I'm always wondering ...
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Post by LuvAgoodPaddle on Jun 4, 2021 19:41:29 GMT
Our state still has a mask mandate until the end of June for all unvaccinated. The shopping I did this week at Target, Albertsons and Trader Joes, I finally saw employees without masks. I'm one who pops my head in to see if employees are wearing them and if not, then I remove my mask. Last weeks shopping, I still wore it because employees were, but a lot fewer this week. In fact I would say the majority of employees weren't wearing them and maybe 40% of customers weren't. Last nights outdoor farmers market was the first time we weren't required to wear them there either. Restaurant servers are still wearing them, but I don't know if they have different rules to follow or not. Post office is still wearing them too and I'm in there daily.
I'm one who knows no one or maybe one person that tested positive for Covid. One cousin tested positive last year before going in for out patient surgery and her surgery was cancelled. She didn't believe it because she'd been following all rules and felt 100% fine, so she immediately went for a second test which came out negative. Then she did a third test a few days after that one and was another negative. Within 1 week she had 1 positive and 2 negative tests. So she thinks she was never positive.
A second cousin swears she had it and says she is still suffering from covid long-haul. Yet when she tested, it was negative. She didn't believe it, so she went to the emergency room because she said she couldn't breathe because of Covid. They ran all the tests, including another covid test and also chest x-rays, all negative again. They found nothing. She left the ER insisting they were wrong and she had covid at the time. She's your typical narcissist and all of this was posted by her on Facebook, so of course I believe she was never positive. I'm sure she was sick, just not with covid.
I run my own home based business, so my work and social circle are not large. So other than these 2 possibilities, I personally know no one else that actually tested positive or even said they got sick this past year plus. I know my family took it very seriously, so maybe my friends did too and we all stayed healthy?
My husband on the other had has tons of overseas co-workers (including India), so he knows a lot of people that tested positive and were pretty sick from it. No hospitalizations though as far as he knows, but one young co-worker now has to wear hearing aids because of the damage done.
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Post by schizo319 on Jun 4, 2021 19:43:47 GMT
I mostly go to outdoor areas where pretty much no one wears masks, dh and I went to "food truck Friday" for lunch today and no one was masked. It was crowded, but people were mostly distancing when they were waiting for food. DH and I are fully vaxed, so we were also unmasked.
I still wear a mask indoors at the grocery store (the only indoor place I go) - I find it comforting to know no one can see me lipsynching to the Muzak. 🙃
I estimate about 40% of shoppers are still masking up. I'm in North Alabama where the vax rate is abysmal. Which is why I'm still avoiding indoor spaces as much as possible.
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Jun 4, 2021 19:55:53 GMT
My "office" is various grocery/big box stores and gas stations, so I have plenty of opportunity to observe shoppers and their masking habits. The vaccine rate in the county I work is something like 55%. The masking rate is maybe 25% at best. Some of my stops I am the only person there with a mask during my 2-3 hour visit.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 4, 2021 19:56:48 GMT
I think my area of town is more blue than yours, which matters in this case only because it usually predicts a higher rate of mask compliance. But I was honestly shocked to walk into Old Navy and Target after the CDC announcement and see 100% masking still happening. I wonder if people who are retired and/or generally are and know people who were able to work from home the whole time were less likely to know people who had Covid. Maybe not - it could be just random anecdotal stuff here - but I like to look for patterns and reason, so I'm always wondering ... About 75% of my shopping is done inside the loop which is why I think I've been seeing more masks being worn. It's kind of a mixed bag when I go to the West a couple of exits as to blue/red. I was honestly expecting to see more without masks as this Costco and HEB. As for covid, I'm retired and DH worked from home until late April. That would fit with your pattern.
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Post by christinec68 on Jun 4, 2021 20:06:38 GMT
Tons. The mask mandate was lifted here on May 19th. I'd say 50-60% wear masks outdoors and about 90% indoors (not including people sitting at a table in a restaurant).
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Post by breetheflea on Jun 4, 2021 20:15:23 GMT
The person putting my curbside pick up in my trunk at Fred Meyer this week didn't have a mask and I thought that was one of the stores that still required them, otherwise I haven't noticed any more people than before not wearing them, but I haven't gone out that much...
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Post by hockeymom4 on Jun 4, 2021 22:02:10 GMT
Everyone, but I am in Ontario and we are still in lock down/stay at home whatever our lovely premier is calling it!!
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Post by maryland on Jun 4, 2021 22:07:08 GMT
Okay, now hardly anyone is wearing masks. I would say about half are vaccinated, and the rest are not but not wearing masks. The odd thing is that hardly anyone has masks on their young kids. Most every child had a mask on until this week. Now I would say 10% of the parents have masks on their kids.
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