This is a restaurant / cabaret. Broadway theaters are still closed.
Is weekend data reliable? I know my state does not report cases over the weekend any longer and dumps a 3 day total on Monday afternoon. Related...the NM dept of health is planning to dump a backlog of death totals today from December through present of New Mexican's who died outside of the state. I hope they means numbers are taken away from the states which they did pass away within, but as it's a government accounting function, odds of counting twice are equal to odds of not being counted at all, I suppose.
If the bold is true, it just proves what spoiled little children those people are.
Exactly.
You are going to have a really tough time convincing me that a single person who wasn’t wearing a mask before started to after this policy was released. I do think that depending on levels of community spread many people who are fully vaccinated are still wearing a mask. It turns out that wearing a mask for 15 mins while you cruise through Walmart is no big deal for the vast majority of people. I would guess most if not all of the people who were wearing masks were vaccinated. Remember too that we are still not much past the point where the vaccine opened to the general public and it takes 6 weeks to complete the series so anyone who got their first shot after April 12 isn’t fully immune. Many of those people may lose the masks once they hit full immunity.
Why does a face mask or lack of one change what is normal?
Hmm... what changed?
Based upon the % vaccinated in the area, at least on this visit, there were a higher percentage of customers wearing masks than were likely to be vaccinated. I don't really have an explanation. It could also be a coincidence that there happened to be more people who wear masks regularly in the store at the time. I'll report back next time I go through the area and shop in that store.
And then it will go down again? By July, then there will be no more surges / spikes in NJ anymore?
In my area, many of us who are fully vaccinated (i.e., the County Health Department reported last week that over 55% of those in my county are vaccinated, but I'd guess it's typical to see 75% or more of patrons in a venue-that-doesn't-require-it still masked) are voluntarily wearing masks indoors in stores, etc., particularly where we can't easily stay 6 feet from others. In such circumstances, DH and I still wear masks when we're with our kids because they aren't yet fully vaccinated (so we wear masks in solidarity with them), and also for the emotional ease of customers and employees around us who might still be vulnerable (kids under 12, those with immunosuppressive conditions) who have no way of knowing we're fully vaccinated and might feel nervous around us otherwise.
Exactly my experience in South / Coastal Georgia. I mentioned this in a post last week. Since the CDC policy change, in an area that saw very low masking, there are more masks... way more??? Being low in the vaccinated percentage of states, it is almost as if now that since stores have dropped mask requirements and placed the burden on the individual, I am now seeing the unvaccinated in true numbers. Like I stated before, I hope it generates enough paranoia and aggravation that it moves people (not the diehards) off their tails to get vaccinated.
I have no issue wearing a mask and I’ve gotten pretty used to it in most settings to the point that it doesn’t bother me, but I still wouldn’t say it feels normal. I do think after 12+ months of wearing a mask it feels a little odd to not have to wear one, but I suspect that feeling will be short lived, especially once masks are dropped everywhere for everyone.
People (majority) didn't normally wear masks prior to COVID. Not a stretch to think that was the premise of the comment.
I wonder if some of it is people who got the first shot but aren’t done yet. I feel like once you get shot 1 you really want to avoid getting Covid since you are so close to “immunity” but you know it’s a very short time to wait vs the past when people looked at it like having to wear masks forever.