“At Costco, vaccinated customers can shop without masks in US locations where there are no state or local mask mandates.”
Not today. I was at a Costco this morning in Minnesota, where the mask requirement was lifted, and everyone was wearing masks. When a woman tried to enter the store she got into a loud argument with the woman checking IDs and the Costco employee demanded that she put on a mask ... which she finally did.
It’s just going to take time for people to feel comfortable to let their guard down in public.
At my place of employment, the mask requirement was dropped on May 1st. The first day, almost everyone was still wearing masks. By the end of the first week it was probably 70/30 for mask wearers. At the end of this week, it’s about 50/50. I’m even seeing some hardcore liberals breaking down and abandoning the mask.