I live in rural-ish arizona and its very hit and miss regarding masks. I don't go out much anymore, but when I do its usually to pick up takeout from a restaurant or go grocery shopping. Now, my county hasn't been hit super hard by covid, we've had about 1700 cases over the whole pandemic so far, but its definitely here and spreading (and we're only 90 miles away from Phoenix where covid *has* hit hard, Maricopa county where Phoenix is located has had 115 thousand cases, with 1571 reported since yesterday) and when stores like walmart mandate masks, almost everyone is usually wearing one (and yes, its literally been like 3 times now where I've seen people in trump 2020 shirts/maga hats just openly ignoring the rule) but when I go to restaurants to get take out its pretty crazy to see so many people hanging out and eating inside (socially distanced from other parties, but still like 2-4 people sitting down together), or go to stores that don't mandate masks (or before stores like walmart did) where sometimes close to half of people aren't wearing them. Luckily, all staff are masking pretty much everywhere, with the exception of one restaurant that I...think I won't be ordering from for a while for obvious reasons. Shame, they make baller burritos.
Overall I'd say masking has gotten better and most people are wearing them, but there's still quite a few people who aren't.
edit: I just want to echo what I've seen a couple of other people say here and yeah, I felt like I was going crazy for a while here too because it took a while for most people to start masking, and towns in the county let two very large (for the area ofc) events happen in june/july without requiring masks, Prescott literally made the national news because of its packed july 4th celebration where almost no one was masked, utterly infuriating.
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