Posted on 07/10/2020 2:49:28 PM PDT by spintreebob
As more local officials wrestle with whether to mandate mask use in public, metro Atlantans are taking a clear stand with their own mouths and noses: Most already are wearing masks.
About 80% of shoppers wore face coverings inside local groceries during spot checks by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The informal checks were made this week of 100 shoppers in each of certain Kroger stores in Duluth, Johns Creek, South Fulton, Marietta, Lithonia and Atlanta.
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2. I went to COSTCO, NW of Atlanta. 2/3 of the shoppers were white. 1/3 Black. Both white and Black wore masks and both did not wear masks. I finalized realized something I have repeatedly seen but did not really see.
Half of those not wearing masks are talking on the phone. Consistently, they choose to talk on the phone while in the check out line. In addition, they choose to talk on the phone in the heavy traffic aisles. They do not go to some isolated place to talk. They want to be seen on the phone. It must be status and a reaction to not being Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
Half of those on the phone are yelling and spitting and laughing and acting very unsanitary in the crowded aisles.
If there are carriers who are mega-spreaders, as is recently the thought, then these phone users in crowded places are the #1 suspect in my opinion.
It couldn’t be weeks and weeks of rioting and looting, could it?
Since masks don’t stop the virus because of it’s side your point is a nothing burger. Who cares. Let’s get the herd immunity thing started. The Covid cold and flu is not killing people. It’s not hospitalizing people. It’s a nothing burger at this point not even a pandemic by CDC standards. Get over your fear and LIVE!
It’s not enough for most people to be wearing a mask voluntarily in public. The point is that all must obey. Every last one.
The powers that be let protestors gather in large groups for several weeks in June, with no daily warnings to them not to do so. Just look at the funeral gatherings for Rayshard Brooks and George Floyd. I will continue to isolate as is practical, be diligent about hygiene, and wear a mask when required by a place I need to visit, but otherwise, I am not planning to wear a mask.
I was the only one I saw without one at the store, this morning. I saw two people with their noses uncovered. One was a cashier. (Oregon)
Here’s the thing: the mask pushing Karens are getting stroked by their social media friends - and it feels SO good! This is their moment! This is their cause! They’re getting hearts & thumbs-up and hugs! They feel so warm and loved! It’s an addiction. And they’ll never let up. Because it feels SO good!
NO...Trump said to wear a mask if you can not social distance. He does the same and is also tested everyday.
We are being forced to participate in a democrat election strategy.
I will not participate.
Sheep will be sheep.
In north Georgia, in one week, we’ve gone from 40% mask wearers to 80%. With a declining death rate. The only thing declining faster than the death rate is logic.
Question anything from the ajc.
You’re experience is 100% opposite of minein Forsyth Co. I don’t wear a mask, when I rarely go to the grocery. I keep well away from others, standing back well more than 6 feet if someone is staring pensively at the canned beans, lost in personal reverie. Stay well back in the check out line, talk minimally. Apparently, those wearing masks around hear seem to think doing so exempts them from distancing requirements, and als seems to relieve them of their fear of non-masked shoppers, because they will come right up next to me while I’m quickly grabbing a couple limes for my prophylactic gin and tonics. Haven’t seen too many people talking on their phones, but have noticed that mask-wearers seem to travel in family groups, while non-mask wearers seem to go solo.
I have seen about 90% people wearing masks in Los Angeles at church, super market, taco shop, iHOP, and tire shop. Funny. Why now? Why were the masks absent in March 2020 when they were needed the most?
Masks don't stop viruses, but they stop some droplets and slow spread. Click on my name and look in particular at the salon.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
I’m in Forsyth County too. And I’ve noticed the same thing, with the mask-wearers getting right up next to me in the produce section. (I think it’s a form of passive aggression.) I don’t like people getting that close to me in normal times...
Sadly, I’m seeing far more mask wearing as of this week. I stopped at Kroger 2 days ago, on the way home from the gym (odd hour - 8 am), and I was the ONLY one not wearing a mask.
It’s only Fulton that’s mandatory.
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