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Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Originally Posted by Auslake
Do many currently wear a mask in the Triange? More in one area than another? How do people react when seeing one wear a mask? Considering a move to the area and my family needs to wear masks, and it would help to understand the perceptions of masking. Thanks
You would not be out of place in Chapel Hill, that's for sure. A lot of people still wear masks here (I'd guess 25-50% in stores). In my kids' high school, my daughter said maybe 10% wear masks. We went to a musical concert there the other week, and 2 kids out of probably 20-something had masks on, so I'd agree. In the audience of parents, I'd say it was 50% or higher wearing masks. I was in the Durham Costco last week and I'd guess that 25%-35% had masks on. No one has ever said anything to me about wearing a mask - in the Triangle or anywhere else.
Do many currently wear a mask in the Triange? More in one area than another? How do people react when seeing one wear a mask? Considering a move to the area and my family needs to wear masks, and it would help to understand the perceptions of masking. Thanks
Most don't wear masks, but some do. I don't see anyone who minds one way or the other.
I've definitely seen increased mask usage over the last week or so. My husband still wears his wherever he goes. I take one with me but rarely wear it now however with the seasonal increase in viruses I might start wearing it especially in crowded areas.
I agree with Michgc. Lotta mask wearing in Chapel Hill. You would be fine either way. No one is going to make you, but no one is going to look at you twice if you do. Actually, I was in the new Golden Fig bookstore in Carrboro yesterday and they do ask that you wear a mask and provide them because they say someone on their staff is at higher risk. I am trying to wear masks in the grocery store and places like that again now. NC has a very high rate of flu right now and I don't want that or COVID.
The only way we will ever sort it out is to compare number of deaths year over year. If 1 million people normally die in a year and in 2020 4 million people died, we can all probably agree there was an external factor at work. If 1 million people normally die and 1.1 died in 2020, not so much. Otherwise it becomes a chicken and the egg problem. Someone has stage 4 cancer catches covid and died. What killed them? Would a cold have killed them? Chicken pox? No way to figure that out.
The only way we will ever sort it out is to compare number of deaths year over year. If 1 million people normally die in a year and in 2020 4 million people died, we can all probably agree there was an external factor at work. If 1 million people normally die and 1.1 died in 2020, not so much. Otherwise it becomes a chicken and the egg problem. Someone has stage 4 cancer catches covid and died. What killed them? Would a cold have killed them? Chicken pox? No way to figure that out.
Definitely agree, but the thing I find frustrating is the people that questioned “from Covid” versus “with Covid” deaths back in 20/21, were labeled conspiracy theorists. These were very reasonable questions and nobody should ever have been labeled like that for simply wanting more information on the data being fed to us by the government.
Lots of people died “because of covid” without ever contracting it. How? Because there were no hospital beds left available to treat other life threatening conditions like strokes, metastatic cancer, viral pneumonia, etc.
Those issues weren’t counted as Covid19 yet the pandemic contributed to those deaths as well.
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