I just want to stick up for us southern folks, at least here in NW Florida.
I have never seen any incident with an antimask person in any of my trips to the store.
What I have seem is that there is about a good 50/50 split of masks to no masks, no gloves except by store employees, and everyone is more courteous than I’ve ever seen in my life.
I was just in the hardware store yesterday. This store is always packed to the maximum with very narrow isles. There is no way to avoid anyone. If there was going to be a pressure cooker type scenario with masks, I’d guess it would be in there. But same thing, everyone as courteous as I’ve ever seen anyone.
It’s remarkable.
Ditto that here in N. GA, Chris. My husband’s business has had about 95% of customers driving through with masks. There is no anti-mask sentiment anywhere around that I can see and we live in a very conservative area.
Again, I am convinced that these FR agitators are here on a mission.
Ok, I stand corrected. The one confirmed news story about the violent anti-mask incident (store employees being attacked for wearing PPE) was in Oklahoma, which is midwest. Howeverm a large number of the strident anti-PPE and flubro members on FR are in the south (with several also posting from the west coast).
I want to apologize for seeming to conflate normal southern people and crazy people who happen to post on FR. I can understand people in Democrat controlled areas being angry about the heavy handed response? But why the freak-out response from flubros in the south?
I also get tired of reading the main page posts of these sickos on FR who are claiming that the deaths in NY, Chicago, or here in Iowa aren’t really happening, or it doesn’t matter because they are old, or sick, or the wrong skin color, or that doctors and nurses are making up the death statistics, lying about symptoms, etc. The main page is filled with crazy vanities and links to fly-by-night blog sites. Has this site turned from a conservative/Trump supporter’s site to some strange conspiracy theory nuthouse?
Thanks for that!
All my southern family members (Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, N.Carolina, and Virginia) are masked up
and extremely cautious.
More so than what I have seen of New Yorkers, Philly people, and Jerseyites.