Everyone in NJ wears facemasks at the supermarket.
Here in Jersey City, as well as across the River in Manhattan, more than half the population wears their dirty masks OUTDOORS.
Only people maskerbating in southcentral PA are frail looking elderly (which I understand, barely) and 20-40 something women.
Almost no one wears masks at stores here in rural MO and haven’t since early last summer. Some of us never wore them. Kids went back to school last Fall, no masks, no distancing.
I saw an interesting phenomena last Spring at every chain store including Walmart. Every time I went, there would be a store employee on break standing at the front door with their mask pulled down talking to a local person or few people they knew and well within 6 feet of each other. A sort of peaceful noncompliance of maskless congregating. Didn’t take too long for walmart to take down the roped entrance and then and mask required signs and then peel the arrows that no one followed off the aisle floors.
Anyone that works around food, including grocery/walmart checkout still wears masks as required by their employers but almost none of the customers do. Just a few old people.
There was one worker I was glad to see wearing a mask and that was the sandwich maker at the sub shop. After all, they’re standing right over my food talking and we know it’s not only air that comes out of a person’s mouth when they talk, hence the saying; Say it don’t spray it.
I was reflecting on the whole stupidity of it.
Store employees have to wear the damn thing when they're working but they can go outside on their break or when their shift ends and come in the store as a customer without having to wear the thing.
Idiocy.