While I understand that New York is certainly in better shape than it had been, being that we've now gone for a full month with a COVID infection rate below 1%, I'm still noticing an astonishing amount of folks just brazenly not wearing masks in the city, these days.
Are people feeling that "we got this" or that the worst is over? That seems a bit premature to me. Unfortunately, I get the feeling that the greater likelihood is that they're just myopically inconsiderate. Personal responsibility on behalf of the greater good is too elusive a concept for some people. You, of course, may beg to differ, but I'd suggest we wait `til we're more clearly out of the woods.
Seeing "No Mask, No Service" signs in shop windows is now pretty de rigeur, but I spotted this one in a deli window in SoHo and had to take a picture. Obviously riffing on Shepard Fairey's iconic Andres the Giant street-art campaign -- a formerly ubiquitous sight all over SoHo's walls -- this sign also speaks to the paranoid concerns of that thorny demographic that feels mask-wearing somehow curtails their God-given freedoms as `Muricans. That is, of course, a fat loud of pungent bullshit, but lots of folks do indeed feel that way.
Where this poster says "COVER," it normally reads, of course, ... "OBEY"
Don't be a selfish, ignorant jackass. Wear the mask ... and not just as a chin-strip.
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