Originally Posted by
uintafly
I left religion 20+ years ago because I wanted to live in a rational fact based world. Masking has now fully entered the realm of religious belief and no amount of facts or data will dissuade the followers. Hell, a lot of the people admit that outdoors they are 100% pointless, but they still believe we should wear them as some sort of sign of solidarity. It's an absurd cult at this point. I can't even imagine living in an area with super high outdoor mask compliance.
I just got back from a few weeks in Florida, and indoors masks are still pretty much always required and worn. At least in St. Pete Beach. Once you went inland at all though no one wore them . It was nice. Caught a Rays game and compliance dropped to basically 0% once people sat down. A beer in the hand is a nice convenient excuse if anyone complains, but they didn't. The airport was still very strict, though they didn't hassle my 4 year old who only wore one when we went through security. They did however hassle my 9 year old.
We had 4 hours of baseball in Taylorsville this weekend and SL County sent out some ridiculous rules that all coaches and players need to be masked, even in the field. Imagine how stupid you have to be to think you need the 9 year old's on the baseball field to be in masks. But after 5 hours at the park and not seeing one mask, I think the citizenry are all giving a big middle finger to the lunatics in charge. Good. The only way they will pull back is if we push back.