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| Back from my Break - How Many People Were Wearing Masks? | |
| By: Steve Date: May 14, 2023, 6:47 pm | |
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| I took a break for about a week and a half. In the meanwhile, I | |
| did some traveling. While I traveled, I observed how many people | |
| wore masks (N95s, KN95s, cloth or surgical). Naturally, I always | |
| wore one. | |
| Overall, very few people wore masks but there were still people | |
| who wore masks. | |
| I attended an outdoor graduation ceremony. Unfortunately, | |
| EXTREMELY FEW people wore masks. To say that 0.1% of the | |
| attendees (graduates, audience, faculty) wore masks at the event | |
| would be an over-estimation. None of the faculty wore a mask and | |
| I didn't see any of the graduates wear masks either (to be fair, | |
| though, how the event was structured made it impossible to see | |
| if all of them did or not). There was one family that all wore | |
| masks and I saw a smattering (not including myself) of others | |
| who also wore masks. | |
| I took public transportation and while using it I was slightly | |
| heartened to see at least a few people wearing masks. 0.25% | |
| might be stretching the estimate and 1% would definitely be | |
| stretching it but at least you could always see at least one | |
| person wearing a mask. | |
| I walked through a few museums and became a bit disappointed | |
| with mask-wearing. Overall, the estimate was far more closer to | |
| the outdoor graduation. I did see a group of Asians (perhaps all | |
| related but I shouldn't judge as they may have been close | |
| friends or simply part of a larger group) who mostly wore masks; | |
| That skewed the statistics ever-so-slightly at least for one | |
| incident. | |
| I attended a small concert (less than 200 attendees) and was | |
| heartened by the mask wearing in both the crowd and the | |
| musicians; While 5% might be stretching it, it was definitely | |
| the highest percentage during the entire break. | |
| Overall, though, I am extremely disappointed in the level of | |
| mask-wearing for where I went (a major city and urban center). I | |
| didn't see a single person of considerable authority wearing a | |
| mask; They were all individuals such as myself. | |
| During my break, I didn't feel the onset of any symptoms and, | |
| hopefully, will not feel them in the coming weeks. I did not see | |
| anyone around me fall ill. | |
| If anyone else would like to share their experiences in places | |
| outside of your local area, please feel free to do so in this | |
| thread. | |
| #Post#: 795-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Back from my Break - How Many People Were Wearing Masks? | |
| By: Data Report Date: May 15, 2023, 5:25 am | |
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| Do not know about outside my local area but here I am seeing | |
| less masking now aside from a few places from time to time. | |
| Gave this thread a boost on twitter. | |
| https://twitter.com/CovidDataReport/status/1658055687581179905 | |
| #Post#: 796-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Back from my Break - How Many People Were Wearing Masks? | |
| By: btbxgirl Date: May 15, 2023, 6:36 am | |
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| I am still quarantining, save the grocery store and doctors. | |
| Grocery store (in a busy suburb of TX) maybe 1 in 50 people | |
| mask. Doctors� offices-maybe 1 in 10. | |
| It�s becoming progressively more difficult to find doctors and | |
| staff that will mask, especially in the dental field. | |
| There is a clear divide between those who understand COVID is | |
| real, and those who are coughing with their heads in the sand. | |
| #Post#: 797-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Back from my Break - How Many People Were Wearing Masks? | |
| By: covidzeronista Date: May 15, 2023, 7:00 am | |
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| The only person wearing a mask at the grocery store tonight was | |
| me. I am in Western Australia. | |
| #Post#: 798-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Back from my Break - How Many People Were Wearing Masks? | |
| By: Lauren Date: May 15, 2023, 11:24 am | |
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| I live in the Washington, DC metropolitan area where masking and | |
| other mitigation measures were encouraged and followed, but that | |
| all went to the wayside in the last year or so. I'm still not | |
| taking public transportation, but when I walk in the street and | |
| a bus drives by, I don't see many people wearing masks �- maybe | |
| just one or two occasionally. I'm the only person left in my | |
| entire complex wearing a mask every time I leave my apartment. | |
| At the grocery store (where I go sporadically as I prefer to get | |
| my groceries delivered) I'm lucky if I run across one single | |
| masked person at this point. The staff at my vet clinic stopped | |
| masking early/mid-2022 as well as many other veterinary and | |
| human clinics. County government facilities and hospitals were | |
| the last stronghold, but they also lifted the mask mandate in | |
| March this year. Sadly, most people have moved on and act as if | |
| covid is over. | |
| #Post#: 801-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Back from my Break - How Many People Were Wearing Masks? | |
| By: destinysb Date: May 15, 2023, 12:53 pm | |
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| I don't know about statistics but I would say that there is a | |
| good chance of seeing a person besides myself masking at any of | |
| the gathering places I visit such as the supermarket or gym. The | |
| vast majority of people at these places do not mask. I think | |
| this works out to a way higher percentage of people masking than | |
| OP estimates, however. I don't think I have ever seen 400 people | |
| at a grocery store at one time, so OP's estimated high of .25% | |
| masking when one other mask is always visible does not work out | |
| for my town of about 16,000. I feel like I would maybe see 25-30 | |
| people at a store, so a good chance of seeing another masking | |
| person would probably work out to seeing another mask on 3/4 or | |
| 2/3 visits. So I'd estimate a masking rate from 2.22% to 3% at | |
| the grocery store. | |
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