Northern masks, Southern indifference [View all]
Jan. 29, 2022, 6:00 AM EST / Updated Jan. 29, 2022, 10:36 AM EST
By Joy Y. Wang
... As the nation enters the third year of the pandemic, life cranks on for many — but the way it is experienced varies widely depending on where you live. Personal beliefs mingle with state-level restrictions, or lack thereof, to determine how common it is for people to wear masks in public spaces ...
Most servers at restaurants I recently visited around South Tampa weren’t wearing masks, a notable contrast with New York, where even customers have to mask up and present proof of vaccinations and photo IDs to eat indoors.
Liliana Fernandez, 45, a medical scientist who lives in San Francisco and was visiting Tampa, said she was surprised that wearing a mask here seemed to make some around her feel uncomfortable ...
In comparison, she said San Francisco’s mask mandate means that, in her experience, about 95 percent of people there wear masks indoors and about 60 percent wear masks outdoors ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/northern-masks-southern-indifference-covid-precautions-differ-widely-r-rcna12930
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