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Chicago, IL.

Indoors. Everyone follows it. Always. They wear them OUTSIDE, alone, even though (as far as I can remember) we never had an outdoor mandate, unless it was a crowded event.

Even when signs came down from (some) stores, I'd say 90% still CHOSE to mask. It's unbelievable. They are zombies.

I finally got up the nerve & stopped wearing them. They make me lightheaded & panicky. Plus I can't stand lying. I was kicked out of a Family Dollar. I was called out to in Target. (But they didn't chase me & I was able to shop.) Haven't gone back since then. Grocery was okay for months, until finally a manager called out to me. But I've been back a few times & they've left me alone. Haven't seen that particular guy though. I'm always terrified. But I can't lie anymore.

Thankfully laundromat hasn't thrown me out. I don't know what I would do.

When I was wearing them, I bought one on fakemaskworldwide. Only one I could somewhat breathe through.

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So wild. Like here in San Diego - I think it differs per region. I was in Itasca for a quick conference yesterday and almost nobody was wearing a mask in the hotel.

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Wow! It's like we're all living entirely different lives.

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"It stops when we say it stops" is my mantra. I will add also, that both Uber and Lyft require drivers and passengers to wear masks, but Uber does no enforcement and half the drivers don't wear masks. Lyft, I will never use again. I took a 5-minute ride and had a phone call going. I asked the driver if it was OK to not put my mask up and he said "up to you". the driver then reported me to LYFT, where I was put "on probation", added to some naughty list, was told I had to upload a photo of myself wearing a mask to get of probation, then received not one but THREE separate scolding messages from Lyft.

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Wow, thanks for the heads up. I gave up on Uber after a bad experience where they didn't show up. I was going to a funeral/memorial service. Thankfully haven't had to use either since the pandemic. But if I do, maybe I'll give Uber another try.

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It's stressful AF but you did the right thing. Consider making it a point to approach other unmuzzled people to say something about how great it is to see someone else with a face. It's awkward and stressful to feel conspicuous, but I reminded myself that the opinions of muzzled people aren't valuable to me and that I'd feel exponentially worse if I wore a face diaper. I'd rather feel conspicuous for not submitting than self-abased for caving in.

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Thanks. Actually heading to grocery store now. Wish me luck. I am scared. But I need food.

I've only seen... probably fewer than 5 unmasked people in stores this entire 19 months. I don't think I'm exaggerating. It is that rare. And they're never nearby for me to say anything. If someone was, I think I would cry for joy!

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Made it! No problems.

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Here in Japan, on the rare occasion I run across another unmasked person, most cover their face with their hand and turn their face away from as we pass or pull up their T shirt to over the lower half of their face. WTF is that all about?

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You're doing the right thing! Never wore one this entire time in Central Kentucky and only had a few run ins, two of which at WalMart. But who cares? The sociopaths behind all this know social conformity is the worst fear and to not bow to it is the ultimate truth telling. Thank you for showing your face.

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Wow! I can't even imagine that life anymore.

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I live in rural Wisconsin where nobody masks and we're all doing just fine. Went out with my brother in downtown Chicago... looked at the people sitting at the bar and in booths and nobody was wearing a mask so I proceeded to walk in maskless. Hipster bartender turn to me and yelled at the top of his lungs put on your effing mask! Apparently you must be masked when you walk through the restaurant/ bar, but may pull it off when you sit down. I spent the evening watching an amazement as people would get out of their chairs to go out for a smoke go to the bathroom put their mask on come back in sit down take it off. My thought, these people are like trained monkeys!

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Wish I could move! Yeah, the restaurant/bar thing is the stupidest. It drives me crazy. No sane adult believes a virus disappears when you sit down to eat/drink. So why do it at all?! And why make the poor servers muzzle all day as they rush around to work? Sickening.

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I resolved not to wear them (except in medical offices, I take my mom to a lot of dr appts) in August when they brought the mandate back in my area. You are right, it is a little intimidating at first, I am not a real confrontational person by nature. But I just 1. walk in like I own the place, 2. Do not make eye contact with anyone, and if I do, I smile at them - have yet to be confronted by a fellow shopper. Two places have yelled at me to put on a mask. One, a restaurant, we were in a big group, and they said they would not seat us unless we put on masks. So we put on their disposable masks, and they walked us 20 FEET to a table, where we took them off immediately and that was it, so stupid. The second, a chain retailer, and I did comply, as I was in a hurry and only needed one item so sucked it up and wore it as I didn't have time to drive elsewhere. But haven't been back since.

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I bought a couple of Incognito Fake Masks from them. Great for the rare times when I still wear one, like at doctors' offices...and the Apple Store. They had a supposed LEO (wearing a black polo shirt that said Police) acting as the Mask Police, nagging customers who didn't have a mask, or didn't have it pulled up over their nose. I don't recall their ever having police presence in the store to protect all those expensive phones.

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I flew cross country last week. 9 hours each way (1-stop). Almost never had my mask over my face. 1) While in the terminal, always hold a cup or something edible. Even while walking, where an empty cup works just fine. 2) Once on board, take out something edible and take your mask down ( I found jerky is perfect...everyone knows it takes a long time to chew it). 3) If you are not hungry, still hold the jerky but chew gum instead.....looks exactly the same. Never had a single person say a thing.

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Great idea with the jerky!

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We have video of police checking a coffee cup here in Australia.

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I saw that... crazy.

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Recently moved from Seal Beach California to St George Utah.

NO mandates here.

90 percent of the people are walking around with no masks on. 100 percent of the people in the over 55 community that I live in is mask free!

The Majority of mask wearing people are being mandated by the large chain stores that employ them. Walmart, Target, Lowes, Home Depot, Ross, etc all requiring their employees to wear masks and majority of them wear them under their noses.

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This is incredible because St Georgers can be such ridiculous rule followers. I wonder if it is kind of the Mormon pop Hypocrisy culture. For example, won't drink coffee, but drink endless sodas.

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Since there are so many retirees here from other states I think there’s more of a mix of people here now.

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Austin, Texas. I have not worn a mask in over a year. I own my own business and I stayed home for two weeks last March. Been back since. After I figured out that as a 45-year-old in good shape I was not in danger to COVID. I have tested positive to COVID twice, December of last year and August of this year. I was fine both times. Both kids tested positive because of close contact at school, otherwise, we would have not known they had it. For most healthy Americans COVID is no more a threat than the flu. As you know. I am pleasantly surprised that liberal Austin has not freaked out for the most part unless you read the post on NEXTDOORNEIGHBOR.com. Even Uber drivers don't require mask. I make absolutely no effort to avoid COVID. I am living as normally as I did before 2020. My family is the same.

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Nice to know about Uber. Haven't taken one in a while. Can confirm the NextDoor crazy here in Austin!

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1. North Hollywood Los Angeles

2. Indoor mandate

3. People are still walking alone outside in masks like it's March 2020. Send help.

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So glad I moved from LA years ago. I can't believe my healthy minded friends bought into it. They were like : I don't want to get the shot, but I must do it for others. They already forced the regular vaxxes on the kids.

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Yup. We’re are retired and scared to move but looking at property in ID. Cannot take this anymore in SoCal. I was born here- breaks my heart.

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We had also looked into Idaho for a while, when we were living in Utah. I think Idaho could be a good place, if it is a rural area.

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Or move 😀

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Seattle area. 100% mask mandate in place for months now. I am usually the only person without a mask when I go out shopping or to restaurants.

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SO you're able to go INTO restaurants? I'm not (no vaxxy here)!

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Depends upon the location. Some mask Nazis won’t let me in so I skip them.

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Speaking less about masks, more about the KC vaccine passports in this case.

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Fort Myers FL, no mask mandates except medical facilities, we’ve been open and living free for months. Thank you Ron! #freedom

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Medical facilities never should have started with them. Of all the people in a position to know that paper can't block a virus, it's medical "professionals." But they've been the absolute worst about it and the most disappointing. Educating people about medical reality is their job, but they're the most strident about pushing the lie. They're impervious to logic and established medical facts. If you tell them that surgeons wear masks to protect themselves from incoming fluids and bone chips (not patients from viruses) and change them often when they get damp from breathing, you get a blank stare or "That's the office policy." Ask them why, if masks are for other people's protection, medical examiners wear them during autopsies.

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Try Orlando. Still mask crazy

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Douglas County CO (Castle Rock) - No mandates at all except for "recommendations" that Un-vaccinated wear a mask. However that is different for schools. There has been quite a battle here in DC over mask mandates in Schools. Back in Sept, Tri-County Health Dept (TCHD) (who is(was) the health dept for Douglas, Adams and Arapahoe counties) issued a mask mandate for K-12 schools (students and teachers) regardless of vaccination status. Douglas County promptly opted out. A few weeks later TCHD updated their mandate to disallow opt outs. So Douglas County declared a breach of contract, exited TCHD and setup their own health board (in a matter of 1-2 weeks). They then issued a health order that allowed parents to exempt their children. The DC school board (rather woke about COVID) issued a lawsuit asking for an injunction against the order. That was granted by the Courts. Election last tuesday has four new conservative school board members coming in (making it a 4-3 majority now for conservatives). Expect the mask mandate by the School system will get reversed. Meanwhile, the lawsuit is still ongoing between the newly created DC health dept and the DC school board. Crazy times.

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That is incredible!! I am particularly admiring exiting out of the health department. Could we just do that, as a city or a county?

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Tempe, AZ. Mask mandate? Who knows at this point? The mayor attempted a mask mandate last year, but rebels continued without. Only about 30% or so of people wear them now it seems, and way too many service employees are forced to wear them. ASU students must wear them in the classroom, but nobody wears them walking around campus.

As for cheating, none whatsoever by me. I do not fly while fascist policies are in place in airlines. And I demanded and received a full refund in spring 2020, because I had bought a round-trip prior to mask tyranny policy. I do not put on a mask for anyone or any institution that demands it. The fact that no human and no human institution has the right to obstruct the breathing of any other human at any time under any circumstances whatsoever is very, very basic human rights. If that is the hill I die on, then so be it.

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Yes!!!

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Ireland

Mask mandate in place basically everywhere indoors.

Compliance continues at about 98%

Intolerance to people not wearing masks is actually getting worse. That said, I've never worn one yet and still surviving.

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and look how well it's working out with cases falling to zero

um

right?

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Winter Haven FL. Florida is very odd when it comes to masks. You would think that in a state that's had no mandates since September 2020 (!), no one would bother with masks. You'd be wrong. In my town, masking is VERY heavy in supermarkets. A solid majority still masked. 15 miles west in Lakeland, FL, nary a mask to be seen. At my favorite coffee shop here in town no one wears a mask. At the Home Depot around the corner it's maskedonium. Orlando, likewise, is mask hell. Up in the panhandle, they don't know what a mask is 😷😁

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Live in South Alabama. Only time I see masks are required places like doctors' offices and hospitals. My kids' school took away the mandate about 3 weeks ago. Overnight, every single mask disappeared from the school. Of course no changes in cases since that happened (school hasn't had a case since mid-September. Other than not enough workers in stores and restaurants these days, everything is about as normal as it was in 2019 days.

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Pittsburgh Pa suburbs

Most don’t wear masks, they are recommended but not mandated indoors except in schools. I don’t know how vigilant the schools are about kids wearing them correctly however. School sporting events that are inside require a mask to enter but once inside only about a third wear it correctly, the rest have it under the nose or chin or completely off.

I rarely wore a mask even when it was mandated except in medical/dental offices. I carry a supply of clean disposable surgical masks but when we were in full mask wearing mode i invested in a few made from that “Nike-type” material that is festooned with itsy bitsy holes not visible to a casual observer but if held up the light is simply perforated with millions of holes! I knew from day one that masks were a useless, virtue-signaling prop.

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1. Jackson County, MO, in a suburb of Kansas City. 2. Mish-mash city. MO is a red state, only shut down for a few weeks and never had a statewide mandate for masks. BUT each municipality got to do what it wanted. Jackson County is one of only 3 blue counties in the state. At first 5-6 of the KC metro counties worked together, so rules were uniform. That did not last long, and one by one the counties have dropped the mandates, EXCEPT Jackson. MO legislature did pass a law last session that says any covid restrictions must be voted on by an elected body every 30 days (so health depts no longer get singular power). Of course they are in cahoots and Jackson County continues to vote to keep the mandate. DESPITE 20 of us speaking before the last vote against the masks (and one lonely speaker in favor of masks). 3. Reality: mask mandate dropped in the spring, then reinstated in August. By then, a lot of us were just 'DONE' - we have 2 choices - ignore the mandate, and go about our business, or take our business to nearby counties. Personally doing an 'all of the above'. Only 2 businesses (outside of medical offices) have yelled at me to put on a mask (both corporate chains) Doing a lot more business outside the county, although do feel bad for the mom and pop places, since they are stuck. Health dept comes down hard on the little guys and gives big chains a pass. Amazingly, though, most people are following the rules in my town, went in the grocery store to pick up a few things last night and only saw one other person not wearing a mask. (but a lot wearing them badly, like with their noses out, and several employees had them on their chins)

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Portland, OR- indoor AND outdoor mask mandate fully in effect- CRAZY TOWN (only state in the country with outdoor mask mandate- yay)

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Oh dang it, going to Portlandia next week, I will have to mask? We don’t here in Southern Oregon except for Dr office

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SC, no mandates. Okay people that are still wearing masks are vaccinated leftists. Life is normal. Witnessed identical situation in Nashville 10 days ago.

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