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Many Bay Area residents feel free keeping their masks on. Across the Bay Area, people are still wearing their masks — and many say it’s because other people are doing it
Mercury News ^ | June 22, 2021 | ALDO TOLEDO

Posted on 06/22/2021 8:39:04 PM PDT by conservative98

It’s not surprising to Michel Courtoy, of Saratoga, that people are still being careful. Courtoy walked around Santana Row without a mask because he now feels he has “the freedom to make my own decisions and act in a way I feel appropriate.”

Still, Courtoy wears his mask inside stores and when a majority of people around him are wearing one. It’s not out of “social pressure.” It’s a sign of “respect for other people.”

“I think if a majority of people in a confined space indoors stop wearing them, I feel I’ll follow the group,” Courtoy said. “But it’s like a snake biting its tail: You’re waiting for other people to give you the signal, and they’re waiting for your signals. It’s a difficult situation.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: california; covid; masks; sanfrancisco; virtuesignaling
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1 posted on 06/22/2021 8:39:04 PM PDT by conservative98
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2 posted on 06/22/2021 8:45:37 PM PDT by conservative98
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Slavery is freedom


3 posted on 06/22/2021 8:46:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Lemmings.


4 posted on 06/22/2021 8:46:21 PM PDT by LIConFem (Bring a Commie to room temperature for Mommy)
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My husband and I are both fully vaccinated. For the last two weeks, we’ve gone just about everywhere without a mask.

However, in one little grocery, we only saw one other couple without masks - everyone else was still wearing. At local supermarkets with even more people, we still only saw one other woman going maskless.

Either people just aren’t getting vaccinated here - or they don’t trust the vaccine.

Wearing a mask was so uncomfortable to me, that I can’t imagine that those with a green-light to give it up aren’t doing so...


5 posted on 06/22/2021 8:46:51 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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If part of the plan is to use masks to drive people like me crazy, it’s working. I still see people running in 80 degree weather with a very tight looking mask. Do they not get ill from this? I’ll never understand this mask thing, ever.


6 posted on 06/22/2021 8:48:37 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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The need to be deprogramed from the brainwashing.


7 posted on 06/22/2021 8:50:09 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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Hardly a surprise - all leftists must believe and act like all other leftists, or they have their party cards confiscated.


8 posted on 06/22/2021 8:50:13 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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Gloves while driving too? Come ON!
Your poor fingernails are saying “I Can’t Breathe!”
You’re gonna have soft, thin, fragile fingernails. Is that what you want?


9 posted on 06/22/2021 8:50:20 PM PDT by lee martell
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Mask requirements were dropped last week. You’d think everyone would be ecstatic. But no. It felt more like a wake. Even most of my coworkers are still masked up.

Bunch of idiots waiting for Rachel Maddox to say it’s okay.


10 posted on 06/22/2021 8:52:24 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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I feel I’ll follow the group,” Courtoy said.

…well, there’s your first problem.

Grow a spine, dude.

11 posted on 06/22/2021 8:53:28 PM PDT by pigsmith (The jab wasn’t invented to cure Covid. Covid was invented to make you want the jab.)
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To: All

12 posted on 06/22/2021 8:57:22 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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These are the epidome of sheep.


13 posted on 06/22/2021 8:59:33 PM PDT by Parmy
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Lemmings!


14 posted on 06/22/2021 9:00:26 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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The guy’s a wuss.

Just the kind that would happily follow orders putting you in a boxcar.


15 posted on 06/22/2021 9:00:51 PM PDT by hercuroc
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They live in San Francisco, where rational behavior is not tolerated, and rigid conformity is a way of life.


16 posted on 06/22/2021 9:09:40 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: conservative98
“I think if a majority of people in a confined space indoors stop wearing them, I feel I’ll follow the group,” Courtoy said. “But it’s like a snake biting its tail: You’re waiting for other people to give you the signal, and they’re waiting for your signals. It’s a difficult situation.”

Just in time for the Biden administration to send the signal to turn in your friends and neighbors who have "extreme" thoughts.

-PJ

17 posted on 06/22/2021 9:17:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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I’m fully unvaccinated and don’t wear a mask anywhere unless verbally asked. Here in SF Bay Area.

And yes about half the people walking around OUTSIDE are masked the people here are insane.


18 posted on 06/22/2021 9:18:43 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: lee martell

In California, especially the Bay Area? Yep. Asian women have been wearing face shields for years while driving. Gotta stop/slow the sun-aging process, or so goes the reasoning.


19 posted on 06/22/2021 9:20:22 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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“I think if a majority of people in a confined space indoors stop wearing them, I feel I’ll follow the group,” Courtoy said. “But it’s like a snake biting its tail: You’re waiting for other people to give you the signal, and they’re waiting for your signals. It’s a difficult situation.”

Good grief. Stop eating and drinking all that soy and grow a pair. Give the “signal” and breathe freely. 🙄

20 posted on 06/22/2021 9:22:26 PM PDT by Allegra
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