Damn near 100% that I’ve seen in stores and we have had a state wide mask mandate for a long time. The mandate for outdoors when social distancing is not possible is a lot newer and I haven’t been in places where it would be necessary.
South suburbs of Chicago- pretty much 100% compliance, but not exactly. 2 noteworthy exceptions, the occasional douchebag in my local liquor store who is obviously too cool for one, and everyone in the small machine shop I work for. At work they ALL, boss included, act as though this is either over or inevitable, and in either case Whattya Gonna Do?
On the other hand, Indianapolis (Marion county) mayor Joe Hogsett instituted a “mask in all indoor public places” which began last July 9, and compliance has been pretty much 100%, without much kerfuffle. Pretty much every building you might walk into has a sign posted reminding people of the order, and a few places are even offering disposable masks to people who show up without them.
I’m not sure if there is an age under which the order does not apply, but I see very young children wearing them. The children I see not wearing them are really young-- like 2 and under. Young enough that if they had some breathing problem, they might not be able to alert someone, and might not be able to pull a mask off, so I have no problem.
IANAD, but I understand mask use to work sort of like herd immunity. You get a certain percentage of the population wearing them, and the few left who really can’t are protected by the herd’s improved resistance.
It’s confusing to me that Americans who’ve never blinked an eye at, ‘No shirt, No Shoes, No service!’, signs, (for like decades!), now think ‘You must wear a mask in this store‘, is a constitutional infringement of some kind.
Huh?
Mostly same story here in COVID Central = So FL.
Restaurants & anywhere outdoors are no-steenkin’-mask areas for most people despite the local orders to the contrary. I stay away from that crowd.
Indoors at non-restaurants almost everybody is masking although 10-20% are wearing real flimsy do-almost-nothing masks.
Now seeing more face shields in addition to masks every day. In the past it was always either/or, now it’s increasingly both.
Northern Cincinnati suburbs here.
Close to no mask compliance. Maybe one out of 10 clients comes to my door with a mask on. Some read the sign and put one on, but most balk at it. I have no problem with sidewalk service, if they don’t want to come in, but a significant number of the non-mask wearers want to come in anyway.
I lost a few clients in the first few days after insisting that they must wear a mask to come in. Now I just make sure that everything is disinfected as much as possible, and that I am the only person in reception, ever.
It has been pointed out to me that we do not have a mask mandate, as even though the Governor has placed the entire state under such a mandate, our local sheriff has announced that he would not enforce it.
If someone brings me Covid, then at least I am a firewall for my employees.
In public, I don’t see many wearing them. Most restaurants either they are not worn at all, or are around the chin. (And I am talking about employees here.) I see people put them on as they walk in the doors of Wal-Mart or Lowe’s, then immediately strip them off once inside. I saw an argument outside of Lowe’s between a couple of employees and some unmasked customers the other day. I only assume that was over masks, but I didn’t stick around to find out.
Man, that sucks. As I mentioned above, outside of my own workplace everywhere around here is mask zone. I had to go to the big box hardware store today, and I didn’t see a single person without a mask.
In my local area in Edmonton, I’d say that outdoor use of masks is at maybe 5% (i.e. I see the occasional one, but the vast majority do not wear masks outdoors. Indoors at the grocery stores and such, it’s maybe 20%. Certainly mask wearers are in a small minority.
And yes, I wear a mask. My wife wears a mask, and yesterday someone pointed at her and started laughing.
Despite this, Edmonton’s Covid infections are very low by U.S. city standards. But never fear: Our idiot politicians will soon fix that. We are an NHL playoff city, and our government has decided to put a giant beer gardens outside the locked-down facility where the games are actually played, so fans can show up en masse and get drunk and party.
I expect headlines in a few weeks about Edmonton’s sudden rise in Covid cases, and our politicians to scratch their heads and wonder how it happened.
In Honolulu, compliance is pretty good. I still see a lot of doofuses who wear their masks below their nose though.
I equate the anti-maskers to the anti-seatbelt shlubs in the 1980s. I even had one anthropology professor who purposely went without wearing a seatbelt for the express purpose of getting ticketed and then challenging it in court. This strategy did not work well for him. But you never seem to hear about these morons today.
We had all sorts of PSAs and after school specials about that. Over the course of years, people finally stopped fighting about it.
I can remember at least 2 distinct sit-coms who had an episode whose plot was about someone dying due to not wearing their seatbelt.
Southeastern CT: About 85% masked, I’d say, including the occasional person with his/her/its nose sticking out. The governor’s mask proclamation specifically exempt kids under two and people who can’t wear a mask for medical reasons. If you claim a medical excuse the store personnel will usually let you in; I’ve only seen one place that refused to do so.
I wear mine inside, but take it off as soon as I walk out the door.
Assign a handful of state cops to keep an eye on them. First time they’re caught without a mask, arrest them.
In the sheriff’s case, what does Indiana law say about nonfeasance?
The governor actually caved, and rescinded any sort of compliance to the mandate.
North side of Chicago, almost 100% indoors. The only exception I’ve seen was a homeless and likely mentally ill guy at 7/11.
I don’t wear one outdoors, there’s been plenty of room to keep distance in the two block radius I’ve been in since March
City ordinance for the past two weeks and statewide mandate this week in Minnesota, and pretty good compliance, above 90% I’d say. Tonight’s news said that one of the license bureaus (contracted by the state for plate renewals mostly) is not only not requiring that customers wear masks, but their employees are not wearing any either. The owner is a right wing nut job; fortunately she’s not the only bureau in town. She’s probably doing it for the publicity, but in this left-leaning town it will generate only negative publicity.
Another Chicago datapoint: Virtually 100% in public, though there are some halfhearted attempts. Plenty of people have exposed noses or with shitty cloth tshirt scraps but at least there’s something. I’ve seen a few outliers totally unmasked, mostly cashiers at liquor/convenience stores, but they’re behind newly built transparent enclosures so it could be worse.
ETA: And upon further review upthread, same for @Munch in IN.
FL law is certainly different from OH law. But …
In FL after our local to me but nationally infamous Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, the governor promptly fired our county Sheriff, an elected position, for gross incompetence and appointed a different career officer from the department’s upper leadership as interim Sheriff. And our governor is otherwise an incompetent Trumpist bootlicker.
If OH law permits, that would certainly be a reasonable approach for your governor to take. Unless he’s also from the “nudge nudge wink wink we’re doing something about COVID, really we are.” school of governmental epic failure through cynicism.
I would say that Ohio’s Governor has taken Covid more seriously than pretty much any other republican governor. He gets quite a bit of flack for that, from residents and from legislatures in his own party.
The Sheriff is very popular around here, and has a bit of national recognition for his anti-immigration efforts. Bit of a wannabe Arpaio, IMHO.
I don’t know if the law would permit it, but I am fairly certain that politics would not.
I’d been to the big box store three times and not seen a single person without a mask, and I told my wife that. Then we went together, and we saw three different people without masks…so the lesson is, it’s my fault for saying anything. #Massachusetts
Toronto has an indoor mask mandate. Outside I am seeing about 50%, even though it is not required. Indoors virtually 100%, with the odd unmasked nose.
I was at the store the other day and the guy in front of me took his mask off to talk to the pharmacist. Not sure if he thought he needed to or between plexiglass, his mask, and an accent he couldn’t be heard clearly.
As an aside Toronto’s daily average for the last 7 days was 36 new cases for 2.6M people in the city proper.