most people pull it on when they pass within six feet of another person
This drives me CRAZY - didn't we spend all of First March learning not to touch our faces??
I suppose there are exceptions, but what I generally see are people grabbing it on the corners by their ears and sliding it down and up or hooking and unhooking one ear. They're not touching their faces.
I just got back from a quick trip to the UPS store near me (Texas), in a little strip shopping center. And, of the people I saw in the store and other nearby mom-and-pop franchise shops, pretty much noone was wearing masks. There was only 1 other customer (of maybe 10 all told) with a mask on and none on any of the staff in the UPS store or what I could see of other stores.
This didn't surprise me, knowing Texas, but did reaffirm my decision to go out as little as possible. In fact, if I hadn't already committed to returning via UPS, I'd've turned around, walked out, and tried to find a better option. As it was, I tried to social distance as much as possible, came home, washed my hands, and will have to hope for the best.
Needless to say, there were signs outside the stores (presumably from corporate) about masks, social distancing, and whatnot. Just no one paying attention.
I'm guessing maybe 75% of people in my part of Texas? Maybe a little higher at the grocery store, a little lower when we pick up food from a restaurant.
there were signs outside the stores (presumably from corporate) about masks
I would be writing to corporate about that store.
NASA Livestream - It's bad enough we had to listen to Elon Musk, but now Air Force One shows up?!?
Have people seen the video of a Costco employee refusing to let a man without a mask buy things? Seemingly he posted it and has received a good deal of support.
Just curious, about how many people wear masks when you are at a store these days? Seems like it's fallen to about 10% in my area.
We wear masks whenever we go anywhere. We take turns going to stores or for curbside pick up. We have cloth masks but I bought a box of disposables just in case to keep in the car--that way, if we forget ours or I don't have time to wash them, we have them.
Stores are hit or miss here. Staff wears masks at grocery stories and restaurants. Some days we have 50-50% mask wearers, some days we have 10-20%. I get really uncomfortable when I see a lot of folks not wearing masks.
Our lawnmower died and we had to go to Lowe's to pick one out. It was crowded and less than half the people were wearing masks. We were in and out in 15 minutes.
I wear a mask at work all day. But not all of us do. About half the people are masking and our director is one that does not.
And we're probably opening to the public in two weeks or so. If the board approves the opening plan.
I'm alone in the office so I don't wear a mask there. I don't wear a mask when I'm home and sometimes take it off when I run down the hall to the trash room. But I do wear a mask to do laundry, since it's a shared space and a number of older people are in the building. I'm kind of high risk, since I'm 68 and have "underlying health conditions" but I'm OK so far.
After that video, I was real disappointed in my local Costco apparently letting 2 different people be in the store without masks. I asked employees if they were aware of the lady in the black tank top without a mask, and they were all "Yeah. Oh. That's a different lady. Yeah."
Way to undermine the work on health and safety branding, folks.
Looks like Laura called it - no launch today.