I have no idea. I even tried to make reports to local authorities for businesses that were in violation, but you end up in a website/email/voicemail loop with no end. Even when compliance is in evidence, it's to the absolute bare minimum. For example, employees in public spaces wearing masks but not covering their noses. I give up.
In my county, the cases are rising and many people in my county are still choosing not to wear masks. Recently, I saw a group of college students without masks, there was a church having nightly services with little to no mask wearing, and a neighbor of mine just refuses to wear a mask and complains about it all the time (They think the virus is a hoax or just a flu. Depends on their mood).
Just like Laura, I have given up too on others, but I refuse to give up on myself. I will continue to protect myself and I don't care who thinks I look crazy while wearing my mask.
I'm in Pennsylvania. Thankfully we have a reasonable Governor who acted quickly. Our Dr. Rachel Levine on our Pa. Coronavirus task force has taken a lot of abuse for being transgendered. While she may not be a pretty woman she has a very beautiful and pure soul that shines. She stood up for transgendered youth brilliantly. She gives clear direction and is doing a wonderful job. I support her and those youth.
I am someone who always wears the mask. In fact I wear two, one on top of the other. People here will only wear them in the stores and they immediately come off before they reach their cars, thus making me less safe. Tired of it. I will wear a mask until I am vaccinated and probably after. It has become my security blanket and a way to fend off Anxiety. I can't control anyone else but I can wear my mask and stay home mostly. It is a sacrifice I am making to be home so much and bored often, but safe. I wish people would be more mindful and less selfish.
@ghandigirl, I think that is the way to go. Besides, home can be a fun place too. Even if it feels forced now. I just think of Diana Ross singing 'Home' from The Whiz. ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VrPc2ocOA
We just have to find the fun at home again;-) I know a lot has already been said about people discovering gardening and all kinds of other things, but I recently started on projects I wanted to do for years and never took the time to actually engage in. There are people who always wanted to write their life story, or put all those pictures in an album or re-do a room etc. and are now doing it! I know sensible people will get through;)
A few days ago there was an article in the newspaper here about a 101 year old woman who still lives on her own in an apartment in the city. She has gone through WWII, the depression, the north-sea flood of 1953 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953 was a big tragedy) and so on. She never had any children, only 1 nephew left and yet she is content being alone.
She's fine staying at home. She said: this is nothing, WWII, now that was bad. ;-) That said, the lady and I do not live in the horror the US now finds itself. The darkness and negativity surrounding America is frighting, but it won't defeat you. Stay strong. The majority of Americans must be able to see right from wrong. Bless. ❤️
I am someone who always wears the mask. In fact I wear two, one on top of the other. People here will only wear them in the stores and they immediately come off before they reach their cars, thus making me less safe. Tired of it. I will wear a mask until I am vaccinated and probably after. It has become my security blanket and a way to fend off Anxiety. I can't control anyone else but I can wear my mask and stay home mostly. It is a sacrifice I am making to be home so much and bored often, but safe. I wish people would be more mindful and less selfish.
There should be more people like you. This for me is simply a matter of basic civic duty.
I wear the mask because I may very well be asymptomatic but infected and not realize it. By wearing the mask I dramatically reduce the risk that anyone may potentially get infected because of me. Any other citizen should extend the same courtesy to me.
The fundamental problem with much of our Western culture is that we are an individualistic society, so many people think just about themselves.
In Japan, long before Covid-19, you could see a few people wearing masks. Most of them did so out of respect towards others because they simply had a cold or the flu.
That's the kind of respect towards others I'd like to see around.
And just like that, ASU student cases of Covid-19 have now hit 775.
Holy crap.
Trump's new pandemic advisor, who doesn't have a background in infectious diseases or epidemiology, pushes the infamous "herd immunity" argument that society should just let people get sick until 65% have been infected. Without a vaccine, herd immunity will kill an estimated 2.13 million Americans. Never in my lifetime has a president caused the death of 2.3 million Americans. Herd immunity is considered okay when it is achieved with a vaccine, but not without a vaccine. Here's a WAPO story about it.
Given that it's being pushed by Trump and the wealthy elite, it looks like class warfare. Trump has everyone who gets near him tested first. For Trump and his Republican enablers, herd immunity is for the masses.
This is true moral bankruptcy. My Republican friends are also touting herd immunity but I don't think they understand how many people it will kill, not to mention that a surge in cases that will result from it could inundate the hospitals.
Trump's coronavirus advisor, Scott Atlas, is a radiologist and from the conservative Hoover Institute. In the photograph of him in the article I attached, he looks like the devil.