Nobody in this thread has ever said they won't do "the right thing". In fact, everyone I've seen has said they wear one.
Don't know where you're at and it's really irrelevant don't need to know. But in my neck of the woods I don't ever see anybody out and about in public without a mask. Nobody ever and yes I'm out and in the public almost my entire 40 hour work week and in some extremely high traffic areas with a lot of people around. I know this narrative that people don't follow the rules is popular to cite but sorry where I'm at it's just plain false. And we are one of the areas cited as having new highs for daily cases and total active cases, but almost never ever have a death and since I'm also in hospitals regularly there are very few people in them, based on discussions with people in the healthcare industry including the woman that was I am in a relationship with (she's an RN).
The local trauma center here which is one of my work accounts set up their 2nd parking garage as an emergency over flow center to treat patients and spent millions doing it. They've never used it and have never had an issue with not having room to treat people. Granted that's a metro population of a bit under 500k.
For me, we supply places like you work at and even ourselves work at to assist you, we've had 4 people test positive and nobody hospitalized. Four people in different area's with our 150ish people out in the public 7 days a week. As for our grocery stores there was only 1 in this metro area that had people get sick it was also all at once and contained they're all good now. I talk to people in retail and in food service on a regular basis. Everybody is fearful and they all follow the guidelines, everybody is respecting the virus. Doesn't mean they're happy with the way they have to live but they all treat it seriously.
That really can't be overstated. It wasn't just the health professionals doing it either. I mean, how do you go from "Come join me in Chinatown! Everything's great here!" to "This administration totally mishandled this thing." Not only is it intellectually dishonest, but it also had far-reaching implications. Don't you think people heeded that advice early on? Of course they did. I think everything kinda stabilized around June, where everyone was - and now is - pretty much on the same page. Sure a bunch of people are gonna do what they want anyway, (like get their hair done when nobody else can) but that's to be expected. I'm not wearing one when I walk in a park with my dog. I just won't. I won't wear one at work if there's nobody else within a country mile of where I'm working. And I've actually changed policies on this. We all just need to use a little common sense and everything will be okay. Just be hygienic. It ain't hard.
But that's part of the point. Pretty total compliance with the mask mandate that's been going on for several months. Social distancing and countless other regulations. And cases are still on the rise. It's rising with everybody using all the precautions we're told will keep us safe.
That's the theory, but practice has often been a far different story. Sorry I know people want a nice little if you do x,y and z it should slow the spread and people will be safer but we've not seen anything to suggest that's the case. California and Nevada have had some of the strictest regulations for a long time and both are seeing an increase and have for a while now.
Hmmm....
I to have had colds that were worse than covid, the worst symptom I had from covid was a sore throat and it was the worst sore throat I've ever had but it only lasted a few days then I was weak for a few more days until I forced myself to eat. I've had colds last much longer. As more people catch covid and recover with no need for medical treatment it is going to become harder for the MSM to get people to believe covid is this dangerous deadly virus.
Lock downs are due to a lack of understanding the science and or politically motivated. The virus is not deadly unless you are already knocking on deaths door. People that are reasonably healthy dont even require medical treatment for covid. The MSM doesnt want you to know the truth because well they are propaganda with a political agenda.
