Mandatory face masks make huge difference here in NC

[Jersey Devil]

We order our groceries online here in Goldsboro, NC from Harris Teeter, pull up to a special lane, push a button and give your name and in a few minutes a store employee comes out with the groceries, loads them in the trunk and then I just drive away, never getting anywhere near anyone. But watching those coming in and out of the store over the past few months I counted that only about 1/3 of the customers were wearing masks. Gov Cooper made masks mandatory yesterday and today I counted 21 of 23 people were wearing masks. I have to think this is going to make a very big difference.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Masks are very important to slowing the spread of the disease...

even a poor mask can moderate the viral load and help prevent contagion.

[LizBeth]

2. Good to hear. Thank you for taking the time to tell us. I really appreciate hearing what is happenin

across the nation. I pay attention.

We are hittin about 50% wearing mask in grocery stores and all employees. Higher end grocery stores 80-90%. But out and about not seeing a lot of masks, then again, I really am isolating as in I do not go out and about, unless a store or dentist.

[helpisontheway]

3. It made a difference here in VA but nervous as we transition to phase 3 Wed.nt

[mokawanis]

4. I went in a grocery store a few days ago

in a small town not far from where I live. I counted 16 people in the store and only 4, including me, were wearing a mask. None of the employees were wearing a mask, including the cashier, a woman in her 60's or 70's. That will the first and last time I go into that store.

Masks should be mandatory everywhere.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. It will make a huge difference, although it won't be obvious for two or three weeks

since a lot of unmasked people have already been infected and just need time to show symptoms, if they're going to.

Personally, having seen how many store employees don't wear their masks properly, as in under the nose, I think that actually going in myself if far safer than having who knows how many other people handle the food items.

[jmg257]

6. Too bad there are so many assholes in the wrong positions...

A growing number of North Carolina county sheriffs are backing away from enforcing Gov. Roy Cooper’s controversial pandemic mask mandate, including some who insist it is unconstitutional.

Read more here: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article243786197.html#storylink=cpy

[littlemissmartypants]

7. It's Not Up To LE. Cooper has made that clear in a couple of his briefings.

It's up to the businesses themselves to take action in the form of trespassing complaints. The LEAs are just blowing smoke. If anything it makes them look ignorant. Cooper has received overwhelming support for the mask mandate on social media with more than 3/4s of those responding, thanking and praising him for making this move.