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[deleted] t1_je5y2gi wrote

Reply to comment by ehunke in Arkansas man missing since 2021 found hundreds of miles away in Texas by _katykakes

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ehunke t1_je5zjcr wrote

maybe it depends where you live, I live in northern virginia i.e. DC, go into a grocery store or something most employees and about half the customers are masked up. I know that there is a big cultural difference between the north and south, especially in terms of down there people don't live on top of each other like they do here. But its not exactly uncommon, at least again in high population areas

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Hypern1ke t1_je61suj wrote

As a person currently in the DMV, I can confirm this is absolutely not true. Especially in NOVA, they dropped masks earlier than the rest of us sad sacks in DC/MD.

In some of the poorer areas in MD you might find 10% masked at most, I’ll give you that, otherwise the only way your story makes sense is you’re shopping at a Whole Foods attached to a hospital for old people lol

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ehunke t1_je6hg1p wrote

In Arlington you still see a lot, especailly in grocery stores. I am not talking about mandates, and dropping mandates, I am talking about voluntary masking if that makes sense

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scannererwe t1_je67rgt wrote

Considering he was officially missing and using a new identity, it's very likely he was just wearing the mask to hide better.

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Zerole00 t1_je6bqdp wrote

>The fact he was wearing a mask today shows he may not be that up-to-speed, when a vast minority of people wear masks today.

You're dumb. I still wear a mask (mostly on public transport) because I don't want to have to deal with shit like the flu.

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ICBanMI t1_je6bhvf wrote

> The fact he was wearing a mask today shows he may not be that up-to-speed, when a vast minority of people wear masks today.

COVID is still out there, getting sick after not being sick for 2-3 years is worse than before, and the immune compromised people didn't just disappeared. Same time, having my sick days for actually things I need rather than getting sick twice a year on schedule from working in a lab where sick people touched everything. It's been a complete godsend.

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