Originally Posted by
SIUav8er
From my perspective, MANY people are becoming more scared of this thing. For the life of me, I do not understand why. Look at California, masks just now became mandatory statewide outside of your home. Many "essential" businesses where I live (downtown seattle) are now asking customers to wear a mask. And this just started happening this week! So I know many people are weary of the situation and ready to get back to real life, but there seems to be equal numbers of people that are becoming more scared as time goes on.
For some reason, it almost seems to be becoming a partisan political issue.
I saw today where we're basically giving up on "Shelter In Place" (we are hopelessly behind on testing) and will now focus on "Harm Reduction" going forward, where we accept the risk of living with the virus and go about our business while taking prudent steps to minimize getting infected. People (myself included) are weary and wary of staying in, plus we can't practically keep the economy on idle much longer.
I guess that could be reason for the mask request or requirement for those areas that weren't already doing so?
As for it becoming a partisan issue... yeah,..... sadly everything breaks down in a partisan way these days, no matter how simple. We don't see each other as Americans anymore, but rather as libtards and conned-servatives, with hardly any middle ground.