I have not left the house in a gazillion years. TCG and ltc don't wear masks when they're outside (they don't get anywhere near anyone), but TCG does wear them if anyone else comes into the building he works in or if he does any errands.
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It's mandatory in San Francisco.
We even masked up when ordering from the carhop at Mel's Diner yesterday. There's a fair amount of people who don't wear a mask outside in North Beach, especially around the park, but we try to avoid those areas.
(As an aside, Mel's Diner's food is just okay, but MY GODS it was nice to be eating somewhere Not Our House. Even if it was our car.)
I'm basically wearing a mask whenever I go outside because it's impossible to stay six feet away from anyone in my building stairwell or on an average city sidewalk.
I don't think I've been anywhere since the restrictions changed here, don't know how people are behaving.
I finished my work day, took a cool shower, and am lying down in the dark. I can't quite point the fan right at me but it's moving the air around a little. Bearable this way.
A black widow bite as a toddler resulted in horrible painful surgeries for my uncle and being lame all his life. The doctors told my grandparents he was lucky to have survived it.
Yikes!
Masks are required here in every store, and no one is really questioning it. Although I have had a few customers say they "forgot" when they come into the bakery (and I immediately inform that masks are required). Only one guy refused to leave and held the neck of his t-shirt over his mouth while ordering.
I don't wear my in the car but I will put it on when I'm getting takeout from the person in the window. I usually put it on while walking the dog, too.
Just curious, about how many people wear masks when you are at a store these days?
It's required here, but also the level of enforcement varies pretty widely -- at the grocery store, pretty much everyone is masked, but at Home Depot/Lowes, it's probably more like 75% (which is already enough to give me screaming anxiety). And we're in uptight liberal-ville, by NC standards -- looks like down around the coast, they've ditched the whole idea.
Required here too—I'd say maybe 50-75% while walking around (but that includes folks who aren't near anyone, I can just see them further down the block?) but 95% when in the supermarket? I've only gone there and one trip to target, where I think inside most everyone had a mask but outside there were some folks who didn't, hanging around in the parking garage
Oh, I went to Home Depot weekend before last and I think everyone was in masks. I remember being pleased to see that.
mr. flea went to the hospital today to have a stress test and he was happy to report that everyone was very thoroughly masked. The grocery store is much more variable; I'd say less than 2/3, and we go really early in the morning when nerds shop.
Required in MA, I do see some street-type people without them, and some runners with a mask around their necks.
The other morning I walked out of my house in a bit of early morning brain haze, and felt suddenly naked when I realized I hadn't put it on.
Oh, the jerky guy from down the street has been sitting on his front stoop, which is literally 3 feet from the sidewalk without a mask. I'm thinking of getting some sidewalk chalk and writing PLAGUE HOUSE on his sidewalk when it's early and there's no one to see.