Did you notice that most of the people in Ukraine wear masks?

[BigmanPigman]

Despite everything that they are going through they still wear their masks. They are better citizens than many in the US.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Facing annihilation and they are still being socially responsible.

[roody]

2. Same in Central America.

[moonscape]

3. Today I stopped by a very large, think

football-field huge, discount grocer. Since there is no longer a mask mandate, I was bracing myself in spite of being in my liberal county on the central CA coast.

Amazingly, I did not see a =single= unmasked person! I looked, and looked, but nope. I know that will change, but for now I felt proud of my community.

[Best_man23]

4. Not sure what the access to Western vaccines in Ukraine is like

But if I was Ukrainian and couldn't get a Western Covid vaccine, I'd wear a mask and go unvaxxed before I would take a Russian made "Covid vaccine."

[progree]

5. New cases per 100k: Ukraine: 63, Russia: 111, U.S.: 24 (7 day moving avgs)

So with U.S. indexed to 1.0, Ukraine is 2.6 and Russia is 4.6

Edited to add: It wasn't so long ago that the U.S. had 63 per 100k new cases, and few masks in large parts of the country.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I follow Covid on Worldometers and Russia

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has had terrible numbers over the past few weeks.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/

[hippywife]

7. It also looked like the majority

of Russians out in protest of the invasion were also wearing them. In at least the 3 videos I've seen, it looked like the majority were.