Most people seem to have an intuitive sense of whether the area they’re currently in is generally safe or not. Colloquially, some might call this “spider sense”.
As someone who has had the great fortune to visit a number of locations in America this year, I’ve come to the conclusion that within a few minutes of entering a new community, one gets an immediate sense of what the general fear, or lack thereof, about Covid, is. Though imprecise and unscientific, I would appreciate those willing to share to do the following:
- When you’re driving or walking around your community, make an estimate of what the Community Mask Quotient (CMQ) is, namely the percentage of people wearing masks outdoors or in their cars – in places where there is no scientific reason for doing so.
- Exclude all elderly people from your calculation, giving them the benefit of the doubt that it’s entirely fine for them to wear a mask at all times, if they so choose.
- Share a comment as to where you live and what your community’s CMQ is.
I’ll start things off with these observations of my own over the past month, using the same approach defined above:
- Spring, Texas (north of Houston): 15%
- San Diego, California: 25%
- Chicago, Illinois: 40%
- San Francisco, California: 65%
Cyclists wearing masks but no helmet… I have to fight the urge to throw a stick into their spokes.
Suburb to the West of Ottawa. 5%, but mostly folks of visible Oriental ancestry, so might be more of a cultural thing.
Anyone wearing a mask under the assumption that it will stop a virus is an IDIOT.
Ironically … at the start of this entire mask-mandate nonsense … I told the wife that I REFUSE to live my life like a Chinese peasant riding a bike, wearing a mask, peddling to work.
Well, we’ve ALL become Chinese peasants now.
https://imagevars.gulfnews.com/2020/04/07/People-wearing-protective-face-masks-ride-bicycles-on-a-street-in-Beijing–China._1715452c60c_original-ratio.jpg
Note the bike helmets … nice to know the Chinese are using their most important safety devices … their masks
Wisconsin Dells Area. Locals…less than 1%.
All of the chicago people coming to the dells…..10% masks
Its the body armor they have the habit of wearing more than the masks.
France – non-Parisian city. Almost no masking outdoors. Probably 99% of people indoors except if you are at a conservative religious gathering where the number of people under age 60 wearing masks is around 1% or less. It is a really interesting contrast, almost like these are the people who realise the government and media are compulsive and habitual liars.
No one too worried where I Iive in Ontario, but when I went camping in AIgonquin Park I saw more than a few peopIe out hiking the traiIs in the woods “AIone” wearing masks. They stepped aside into the brush to Iet you pass. I saw peopIe in BOATS in the middIe of the Iake……wearing masks. I saw famiIies sitting in campsites wearing masks.
One dude who was cIearIy gay, wore a pink mask with a tiny IittIe rainbow on the side that read, “Think before someone has to ask – wear a mask”
He’s Iucky he didn’t ask me.
And I have absoIuteIy NO DOUBT….that these peopIe were mostIy from Toronto or Ottawa.
I couId smeII the “woke” coming off them.
James, I am quite sure it is the stupid they exude that you are smelling.
East Grand Rapids, MI – 3 – 5% In stores — Outdoors – 1%
A resort/beach community south of Portland, Maine. On the beach, 0%. Outdoors, in town, 2-5%. In stores, 10%.
I’m headed to New Hampshire soon, thanks for that. I am nervous about crossing New York. I am doing it Binghampton to Albany to avoid the super-woke area.
Come on up. The seacoast – NH and ME – is largely free of the authoritarians and scolds.
Thank you.
I’m bound for the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, via Vermont and upstate NY to avoid NYC tolls – and nowadays who knows what else?
East York, GTA, ON
Basically no one outside or in cars. Perhaps 1 in 50.
Take away the Tim Horton’s and I wouldn’t see a mask all day.
Unfortunately, I think it is more overconfidence in the ineffective vaccines than defiance.
About two months ago at Danforth and Dawes rd in Toronto, I estimated 85% of people had masks on outdoors. Blew me away. I’ll be doing another calculation/observation later this morning.
Inner city NW Calgary (rich area, NDP MLA, CPC MP)
Outdoors @15%, in cars @5%, indoors @60% (grocery stores, local mall – 90% women/30% men – excluding seniors and workers where they are still being forced to wear masks)
That’s about the same here in Edmonton.
Also Airdrie; Agree to seeing lots of young adult/high school age wearing masks, disagree with rare outdoor masking, I see people walking dogs, riding bikes and even joggers, alone, wearing masks, routinely. (Try around Nose Creek Park). Solo masked drivers also.
* Barrie, Ontario > outdoors about 5% or less.
* Bracebridge & Huntsville ‘cottage country’ Muskoka > outdoors maybe 15% but many are Toronto people.
* A week in Chicago in July (Pilsen, a near west side Hispanic neighborhood) > outdoors about 5% or less
At the lake cabin north of Lloydminster, none.
IDGAF anymore.
All bedroom communities outside of London Ontario- 0%
Inside London Ontario-50%
The downtown is a write off woke district.
Nanaimo: 30-40% CMQ and growing
My elderly aunt lives in Nanaimo and said much the same thing.
Ottawa proper: less than 5% outdoors, 100% indoors, but I don’t get out much.
If I know I have to do some grocery shopping, I will wear a mask around my chin (mouth and nose uncovered). When I get to the store, the mask covers mouth and nose. IT’S THE LAW!!!
Calgary, Forest Lawn, working class neighbourhood. 5% or less wearing masks in silly places like alone in their vehicle. Maybe 20% of service staff, clerks, waiters etc wearing masks, less than 10% of customers.
Sittin in Timmies Turner Valley not a mask in sight. Not enough during day to put a percentage on it. Most people you talk to are sick of Covid.
The cable car in the above photo brought to mind those old Rice A Roni commercials from the sixties and as these things go I can’t get the damn jingle out of my head.
I’ve been imprinted.
Here in small town (2000ish people) Saskatchewan it’s quite rare to see people wearing masks, except those who are required to by employers. CMQ less than 1%
Even in a recent trip to the city, in Saskatoon malls and restaurants it was rare, excluding employees. CMQ less than 1%
Anecdotally, I stopped for coffee during a road trip through swift current and the only people wearing masks got out of a car with Ontario plates but they were moderately old. CMQ less than 1%
On the same trip, I didn’t see any visitors at the Saskatchewan provincial park wearing a mask.
CMQ at 0%
I’m in Calgary , did a small job in a nursing home a couple of months ago , maybe 10% of the seniors were masked up , they made me jump through a few hoops to let me in to work .
Lagos Nigeria.. Out on streets almost nobody and shops the same.. Only in office where it is mandated but people are fed up and not paying attention anymore. It’s a first world problem…
I was just released from 15 day isolation as had the ROMA.. Still a bit weak but working.. it’s a bad flu
Sunday August 15th – Victoria BC Costco 90% wore masks, my wife included. She said she wore it “as a courtesy to others”. To me, it just looked like virtue-signaling.
Yeppers Sookey, Victorians are very obedient sheeple, properly manipulated and paranoid. After all, THEIR NDP minister, government, and very very nice and calm, mousy BonBon has said something and given them instructions.
It’s a cult.
True blue lifelong NDPers, just doing what their masters tell them. This is, and always has been what Victoria is. After all, look how many government workers are here, at 4 levels of government. Almost to a person, lefty voters whether union or mgmt.
To this day, Costco last night, it still amazes me to see young adults wearing face diapers. The stupid is strong.
What makes me nuts is the idiots driving alone wearing a mask
Yup. The virus can be transmitted by exhaust fumes because it got into the fuel.
Have you seen the list of things that live in masks? Dangerous, even fatal things, some immune to antibiotics. Pneumonia, Sepsis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, others. Every mask has them and grows them, right next to your nose and mouth. And masks have been proven over and over (25+ tests) to have NO effect on spreading or protecting you from ANY viral disease.
Oh, and while they may slow down bacteria (but never viruses), they only do so for a few hours. You have been replacing them or sterilizing them under strong ultraviolet light every four hours, right? Actually, it has been shown that after only 1 1/2 hours, they spread more bacteria then they prevent the spread of, 4 hours is just the scheduled amount of time doctors and nurses replace or sterilize.
It is NOT “entirely fine” to wear a mask if you are an old, person, or any person. There is NO benefit to wearing one, and they are dangerous.
Oh, and the “health experts” said you do not have to wear one if you have recovered from the disease or been vaccinated. Then they said now you do, even if you have. So they lied. Are you going to still believe them? Why?
Nightfall, nothing except changing the mask every half hour will prevent the masks from holding bacteria and other nasty stuff, once they are moist from your exhaling. The only thing they won’t hold is a virus, it comes right on through.
Changes dramatically within a few kms. On Yonge Street, in between Finch and Sheppard, about 85% wearing masks outdoors…even 6 month old children! The usage declines as you move further away from that area. Markham/Richmond Hill, about 50%. I was in the Beaches on the August long weekend…5%. More Asians = more masks…though even the white folks in the Yonge/finch and Yonge/Sheppard area are masked. It’s lunacy.
Nova Scotia, we are still being forced to mask up everywhere including parks etc. Half the population wear masks while driving, don’t get me started on babies with face masks on-it sickens me.
Stockholm, Sweden: 0.1%
Prague, Czechia: 0.2%
Middleton and Star area west of Boise. In stores: 2%. Medical facilities 100%. Stores, restaurants: 2%. Outside: 0. Church 0. At the college where I teach about 5%.
Go to WHO, “Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza” (2019) Table 35 https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329439/WHO-WHE-IHM-GIP-2019.1-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y:
They show summary of influenza pandemic RCTs. “Ten RCTs were included in meta-analysis, and there was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.”
Last night at a planned social gathering of 50+ in Willow Grove, PA(Just north of Philadelphia): 0% including staff. In this group there is a high % of fully vaccinated.
Plattsburgh, New York,
I was there June and July, I just came back last week.
CMQ= 5%…less than 5% wear masks outside or driving their car
in stores and shopping mall, maybe 10 % wear masks…the reason is that all buildings have a sign that says ” if you are vaccinated you don t need to wear a mask” and they don t ask us to prove if we are vaccinated.
Calgary central areas, not too far north, not too far south
I’ll say 5% CMQ
It varies between shops, Superstore north center street and Superstore east 16th ave. it’s still more common to see staff with these (and some with gloves)
Seeing random people with masks on in cars, windows down, some coffee shops have more than their share of masked people, and some still with face shields.
I think it’s more to do with culture as noted above, I haven’t been in a Safeway for a couple of years after an incident at 16th and Center Street. Calgary Co-op has more maskers than Superstore though, I suspect it’s “the type” of folks who shop there.
Was at a garage sale which had a sign out front saying all people shopping here must wear masks, they were selling everything to move back to New Brunswick (which made me laugh). After 3 days almost everything they have was still sitting there on the driveway.
Guess how much I bought? lol… I approached in order to read the sign, then turned away.
Have made a couple of trips north to Airdrie, Red Deer, Lacombe about 90 minutes north of Calgary and I’ve seen very few masks. “these are my people” …
Saskatoon Warman, Martensville, 90% or greater. There are very few that seem to actually have any desire for freedom. I do a grocery run, ALWAYS multiple people with masks, in every store. Home Hardware, Peavey Mart, Sobeys, SaveOn, Loblaws, Walmart, Coop, it is universal. Food, hardware, construction supplies, dirt, car parts, tires, … whatever you are looking for, most of the of the people around you will be wearing a mask.
Breach of contract. When the place you work tries “only the vaccinated”, you could try suing for breach of your employment contract. But, given the behaviour of courts around the world in protecting the establishment instead of the rule of law, don’t hold your breath.
You HAVE TO HAVE A GARDEN. You have to learn how to can. There is going to come a year or two here pretty quick where you won’t be able to buy any food in stores. This is where you need the parallel society. Our own farmer’s markets, with like minded people, will keep us fed. Stop helping the masked. Stop shopping at any place that still has masked people in their ads. The lines are being draw, pick your side.
Kevin, “You HAVE TO HAVE A GARDEN. You have to learn how to can. There is going to come a year or two here pretty quick where you won’t be able to buy any food in stores. This is where you need the parallel society. Our own farmer’s markets, with like minded people, will keep us fed. Stop helping the masked. Stop shopping at any place that still has masked people in their ads. The lines are being draw, pick your side.
Well said, and I fully agree. They really are practicing diversity, they intend to divide and conquer. The war between the Woke and the Deplorables will be a slow one, but it will be a long one. Me, I’m picking the Deplorable side. I seem to have a preference for calm sanity, for some reason…
Prince Edward County in Ontario. Way less than 1% outdoors or in cars. The number bumps up on weekends as the woke Toronto crowd visits. I did laugh out loud recently when another cyclist passed by me on a local trail. No one else in sight and this bozo was wearing a mask.
Central SC. Leaving aside Walmart employees who are forced to, 5-10% indoors and essentially 0 outside. I gather black urban areas are more masked, but here in the boonies (about a 50/50 racial mix) there is no racial variation.
My upper, upper, middle class suburb of San Francisco … 70%
And now that school is back in (physical) session? I’ve noticed that traffic is even WORSE than pre-pandemic !! Why? No more carpooling. We have NO BUSSES (for the past 40 years) … but parents set up many carpools to ease the driving load. Nope. No more. Pandemic (Code DELTA) panic.
Oh … and in-store … masks are mandated by our County Health Officials … 100%
Richmond BC, which is stuffed full of recent immigrants. It’s notable that Turdeau’s new voters all obey the stupidity.
Stores~ 90%, outdoors ~50%-60%, elderly white (outdoors) surprisingly relaxed~20%, elderly oriental (outdoors)~90%. My hysterical female relatives who were 100%, now 10% even if double vaccinated (they love Bonnie Goebbels).
Panama City Beach, FL. No one wearing, masks on he beach, some in stores, about 5%. The same in restaurants, until they get to the outside deck.
5% Eagle River Alaska. In Anchorage, though, approaching 20%
It’s Morontario; you can’t enter any building without a mask (or face shield). Surprisingly, I didn’t see any drivers wearing a mask while running my errands this morning in Halton Region (west of Toronto). Parking lots are another story. It’s 35 degrees with humidity and everyone (100%) was masked as they walked from their cars into the stores. Seniors and very young children included. It’s insane!
Afghanistan. Even the bad boys.
CNN Praises Taliban For Wearing Masks During Attack
/BabylonBee
I don’t really go to many places, but this is the report:
South Okanagan week of Aug 9, lakeside campground: mostly 0 masks, at full capacity.
South Okanagan, same week, grocery store, liquor stores (non BCL): staff at 10% masked, customers about 35%
Dairy Queen in Hope, BC: 0 masks!
Trail close to home in suburban Metro Vancouver: virtually 0 masks during 1 h walk (6 km round trip), except for these two Asian ladies that when they see me approaching, quickly mask up! Despite of the fact that we cross paths daily and one is neighbour, 5 houses down.
Nearest Save-on-Foods: staff is currently 35% masked, customers about 50%.
Dog park: 0 masks
Dog beach park: 0 masks.
That’s it!
I was in Winnipeg last week, Brandon yesterday and Killarney today and the maskers both inside and outside were about the same as the recovery rate from covid, >99%.
In vehicles < 40%, but still significant. Sadly, it is not surprising considering MB has, I believe the highest percentage of dummies that have willingly dived head first into the vaxx genocide pool. I foresee a stampede clamoring to get a regular booster.
I bought groceries at the nearby Safeway earlier today. About half of the people were face-diapered. Then again, my part of Edmonton is hard-core Dipper.
Northern CA…not sure of the percentage as it really depends on the city. I already have stopped going to San Francisco as a result of the crime (not a crime to steal under 1,000 of goods and your car is pretty much assured to get its windows smashed), I do miss the museums though. In my town it’s kind of a hit and miss, probably 50/50 but getting better. It can range from morons in their Priuses with gloves AND mask, to normal people sans mask. Naturally I get dirty looks from some. I don’t care. Not the world I want to live in. Anyway, there are doctors that do telemedicine that will treat early and prescribe HCQ, which actually works (Africa, where they take a lot of it, has one of the lowest death rates). The Lancet initially put out a report that HCQ was dangerous and then retracted the story. Do you think the news reported any of that?
“What good fortune for governments that people do not think.”
London, Ontario. Seems to me that I am always seeing people driving around with masks on. But I just took 5 minutes and counted. 8 people wearing mask 31 not. That’s about 20%. 2 maskers were in same car all the rest were driving alone.
We are still under mask mandate here. I never wear a mask anywhere. I have never seen another person indoors without a mask on, I seem to be the only one. Funny thing though because it is self compliance. I go into all kinds of places big and small. In the past 2 months I have only been asked 3 times to put on a mask. I politely decline and leave. No staff or customers say anything to me. I expected a little more trouble for violating the mask mandate but nope. So basically the sheep are happy wearing their masks.
Rock Springs, WY last night – 0% And a rocking good time at Applebys.