Where I live life is completely normal except for two pockets of insanity. One is Costco and the other is church. Half the people I see at my Costco are masked. It is not required to mask at Costco. It is not required to mask anywhere in the county. Literally no one in my suburb community masks But wearing a mask to Costco is a popular fashion choice.
At church it is the kids who mask. I understand the brainwashing that created this despicable habit. I do not understand the absence of pushback to teach "You do not need to do this!"
Our society is greatly corrupted by charlatans and cowards. Thank God for cats with attitude!
In Puerto Rico, virtually everyone still wears masks, at least in stores. Over the past week I've been in 2 grocery stores and 1 Costco. In the groceries, I saw maybe 2 other people without masks. Maybe 2. Certainly not more. In Costco maybe 5, at most. So what's that, 98%, plus or minus, idiots or scaredy-cats who 2+ years in STILL don't know the truth about masks??!!
It's so frustrating. I am often the only one without a mask in shops here in PR. My experience in the Costco of Bayamón is that a few more people are without masks than in other places. Sometimes as many as half the employees are face-pamper free. The one in Carolina, though, was heavily masked when I went. I was a week in Florida, and it was so refreshing to see faces for a change.
The Bayamon one (across from Rio Bayamon Golf Course) is the one I go to. That's where I think I saw 5 others without masks about a week ago (next time I'll need to pay more attention to the employees; it'll be soon, 'cuz I'm almost out of peanut butter). But the SuperMax on 199 in Guaynabo and the Econo across from Pep Boys? No more than 2 others, and that may still be generous.
In fact, I remember as I walked toward the SuperMax on 199 after having been away for the entire month of April, I noticed that literally EVERYONE else walking toward the store or walking out of the store was masked. Everyone. I then wondered, "Does SuperMax have its own mask mandate??" I thought I was going to be denied entrance.
That's how pervasive, and how disappointing and infuriating, this has become.
Maybe the Costco in Bayamón has had a relapse. Sorry to hear. It was a bit of a semi-oasis for a while. The SuperMax stores have indeed been awful every one.
What is wrong with people?
I noticed something when I was in Florida about my listening comprehension. A butcher (maskless) was chatting away about something. I didn't catch the half of what he said. I'm thinking that I've gotten so used to giving up on understanding what the masked are saying ("Mrfff mrffff mrffff"), that I have gotten in the habit of not listening to people. I haven't decided whether it is a blessing or a curse yet.
About 6 months ago I walked into the Bayamon store and I wasn't wearing my mask. The guy checking membership cards didn't say a thing. It wasn't until I was all the way back at the refrigerated produce section that a woman came up to me and told me to put my mask on.
It wasn't readily evident, so I asked her whether she worked there. I thought she might've been a Karen, and I was prepared to ignore her. But she said she was, so I asked to see her employee credential (it wasn't in view). She showed me.
But at least the guy at the entrance let me in unmasked. And I got all the way in before someone confronted me. So that was something.
NYC still has its "Mask Up" campaign in full force including announcements on the subways between stops. What's super interesting is the wide range of numbers masked by different train line and time of day.
You can see like 90% masked in midtown trains almost anytime but it drops to like 35% in Brooklyn except for hipster enclaves. Pretty funny to watch nearly all the masked faces exit the train at the same few stops. We humans are peculiar creatures, eh?
Just scored a job in one of the richer local communities. The number coming in, children and all in those dog snout monstrosities is far more than in the more mid to lower class towns I frequent. At least they have to wear the damn things rather than me. I turned down another job prior when it became apparent we had to mask 'for clients' whether they masked or not. The class ramifications of masks are something that needs to be addressed.
Masks are popular with a certain subset of the population for reasons having nothing to do with public health, as videos from a Philadelphia gas station this past week show.
Boom! Goes the El Gato dynamite.
Where I live life is completely normal except for two pockets of insanity. One is Costco and the other is church. Half the people I see at my Costco are masked. It is not required to mask at Costco. It is not required to mask anywhere in the county. Literally no one in my suburb community masks But wearing a mask to Costco is a popular fashion choice.
At church it is the kids who mask. I understand the brainwashing that created this despicable habit. I do not understand the absence of pushback to teach "You do not need to do this!"
Our society is greatly corrupted by charlatans and cowards. Thank God for cats with attitude!
In Puerto Rico, virtually everyone still wears masks, at least in stores. Over the past week I've been in 2 grocery stores and 1 Costco. In the groceries, I saw maybe 2 other people without masks. Maybe 2. Certainly not more. In Costco maybe 5, at most. So what's that, 98%, plus or minus, idiots or scaredy-cats who 2+ years in STILL don't know the truth about masks??!!
It's so frustrating. I am often the only one without a mask in shops here in PR. My experience in the Costco of Bayamón is that a few more people are without masks than in other places. Sometimes as many as half the employees are face-pamper free. The one in Carolina, though, was heavily masked when I went. I was a week in Florida, and it was so refreshing to see faces for a change.
The Bayamon one (across from Rio Bayamon Golf Course) is the one I go to. That's where I think I saw 5 others without masks about a week ago (next time I'll need to pay more attention to the employees; it'll be soon, 'cuz I'm almost out of peanut butter). But the SuperMax on 199 in Guaynabo and the Econo across from Pep Boys? No more than 2 others, and that may still be generous.
In fact, I remember as I walked toward the SuperMax on 199 after having been away for the entire month of April, I noticed that literally EVERYONE else walking toward the store or walking out of the store was masked. Everyone. I then wondered, "Does SuperMax have its own mask mandate??" I thought I was going to be denied entrance.
That's how pervasive, and how disappointing and infuriating, this has become.
Maybe the Costco in Bayamón has had a relapse. Sorry to hear. It was a bit of a semi-oasis for a while. The SuperMax stores have indeed been awful every one.
What is wrong with people?
I noticed something when I was in Florida about my listening comprehension. A butcher (maskless) was chatting away about something. I didn't catch the half of what he said. I'm thinking that I've gotten so used to giving up on understanding what the masked are saying ("Mrfff mrffff mrffff"), that I have gotten in the habit of not listening to people. I haven't decided whether it is a blessing or a curse yet.
About 6 months ago I walked into the Bayamon store and I wasn't wearing my mask. The guy checking membership cards didn't say a thing. It wasn't until I was all the way back at the refrigerated produce section that a woman came up to me and told me to put my mask on.
It wasn't readily evident, so I asked her whether she worked there. I thought she might've been a Karen, and I was prepared to ignore her. But she said she was, so I asked to see her employee credential (it wasn't in view). She showed me.
But at least the guy at the entrance let me in unmasked. And I got all the way in before someone confronted me. So that was something.
Good for you.
NYC still has its "Mask Up" campaign in full force including announcements on the subways between stops. What's super interesting is the wide range of numbers masked by different train line and time of day.
You can see like 90% masked in midtown trains almost anytime but it drops to like 35% in Brooklyn except for hipster enclaves. Pretty funny to watch nearly all the masked faces exit the train at the same few stops. We humans are peculiar creatures, eh?
Just scored a job in one of the richer local communities. The number coming in, children and all in those dog snout monstrosities is far more than in the more mid to lower class towns I frequent. At least they have to wear the damn things rather than me. I turned down another job prior when it became apparent we had to mask 'for clients' whether they masked or not. The class ramifications of masks are something that needs to be addressed.
Masks are popular with a certain subset of the population for reasons having nothing to do with public health, as videos from a Philadelphia gas station this past week show.