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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.
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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.
HTML 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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