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Nationwide mask mandate question... Does anybody think this will really make a difference? My state has a mask mandate. So far it has been very successful. For example, last weekend I ended up at a pretty nice bar on a local lake (was a passenger on a boat - not my idea to stop). Beautiful day, place has an outdoor patio, good food, a very popular joint. There's a sign on the door indicating masks are required, due to Gov.'s orders, for entry into the premises. The sign was dripping with sarcasm, wish I had snapped a pic. I only went inside once (bathroom) and not a single person was wearing a mask in the packed bar and obviously, no social distancing. No one was wearing a mask on the packed patio either. How would a mask mandate be enforced in a situation like this? Shut the biz down? If you did that you would pretty much be shutting down every bar, restaurant, gathering place in a county that has an infection rate of approximately 1% of the population (5,132 total cases, 4,076 recovered, 986 active) since March 13th - the first reported case, with a fatality rate hanging around .2% (70 total deaths in the county) and no deaths under the age of 40. This is the county that earlier in this thread I said was not going to go along with most of what our Gov. was recommending and they haven't. When people in this county see these numbers, they aren't buying the danger. Same county, different city: my cousin went to pick up a fish fry at a popular eatery a couple weeks ago and according to him the place was "nuts to butts" with people, not a mask in sight. Crowds of unmasked people are everywhere.
I don't think the police would even enforce it as they obviously weren't enforcing it that day. And I can't believe the bar was only packed while I was there so you'd think the infection rate would be much higher and rising in a county whose bars/restaurants are probably jammed with people every weekend since the state reopened in late May.
So, mask mandates...Does anybody think this will really make a difference if people don't care and it's essentially unenforceable? For the record, I am a mask wearer when I'm out and about.