I think the no mask issue has been politicized. Yeah, going out on a limb, there, eh? I was in Lexington, MA a couple weekends ago. I had met my daughter there and we went for a nice hike along the walk/run/bike path. Masks are required, of course. My estimate was maybe 50% of the people were wearing them. If you’re not familiar with Lexington, it’s an upper-class town where the median home price is over $1m. My wife grew up there before it became a liberal elitist enclave. Put up a trump sign on your lawn and it won’t be there the next day. BLM signs everywhere. The town is probably ~70% white. The balance is almost all Chinese and Indian. Blacks are 0.1% of the population. As I waited in the municipal lot downtown, I watched wealthy white women come and go in their Range Rovers, Mercedes, etc. as they ran Saturday morning errands and chatting with their friends – no masks, no social distancing. Ironically, before the pandemic if you saw anyone wearing a mask in public there’s a good chance they were probably Chinese. I watched a group of at least a dozen Chinese teens getting ice cream and milling around. Not one mask among them and they were huddled up on and around a single picnic table. I’m going to go out on a limb and say 99% of the people I saw without masks and not practicing social distancing were NOT “MAGATS”, trumpists or even republicans.
I think the no mask issue has been politicized. Yeah, going out on a limb, there, eh? I was in Lexington, MA a couple weekends ago. I had met my daughter there and we went for a nice hike along the walk/run/bike path. Masks are required, of course. My estimate was maybe 50% of the people were wearing them. If you’re not familiar with Lexington, it’s an upper-class town where the median home price is over $1m. My wife grew up there before it became a liberal elitist enclave. Put up a trump sign on your lawn and it won’t be there the next day. BLM signs everywhere. The town is probably ~70% white. The balance is almost all Chinese and Indian. Blacks are 0.1% of the population. As I waited in the municipal lot downtown, I watched wealthy white women come and go in their Range Rovers, Mercedes, etc. as they ran Saturday morning errands and chatting with their friends – no masks, no social distancing. Ironically, before the pandemic if you saw anyone wearing a mask in public there’s a good chance they were probably Chinese. I watched a group of at least a dozen Chinese teens getting ice cream and milling around. Not one mask among them and they were huddled up on and around a single picnic table. I’m going to go out on a limb and say 99% of the people I saw without masks and not practicing social distancing were NOT “MAGATS”, trumpists or even republicans.