Northern masks, Southern indifference

[struggle4progress]

Jan. 29, 2022, 6:00 AM EST / Updated Jan. 29, 2022, 10:36 AM EST
By Joy Y. Wang

... As the nation enters the third year of the pandemic, life cranks on for many — but the way it is experienced varies widely depending on where you live. Personal beliefs mingle with state-level restrictions, or lack thereof, to determine how common it is for people to wear masks in public spaces ...

Most servers at restaurants I recently visited around South Tampa weren’t wearing masks, a notable contrast with New York, where even customers have to mask up and present proof of vaccinations and photo IDs to eat indoors.

Liliana Fernandez, 45, a medical scientist who lives in San Francisco and was visiting Tampa, said she was surprised that wearing a mask here seemed to make some around her feel uncomfortable ...

In comparison, she said San Francisco’s mask mandate means that, in her experience, about 95 percent of people there wear masks indoors and about 60 percent wear masks outdoors ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/northern-masks-southern-indifference-covid-precautions-differ-widely-r-rcna12930

[BigmanPigman]

1. CA has an indoor mask mandate.

It began Dec. 15th and was supposed to end Jan. 15th but was extended to Feb. 15th due to the high Covid numbers. I see masks on most people outside too.

[bahboo]

2. in my coastal town here in CA, basically 100% indoors...

outside not much, but probably not really needed...

[Casady1]

3. No surprise here

The south has never wanted to be part of the country.