re: #158 lawhawk

I think masking is a function of proximity to high covid19 cases during the worst of the pandemic. We’re still seeing a lot of masking in Northern NJ, but the further south you go in NJ, fewer mask. Bergen County was a nexus of cases at the outset, and we’re still leery of covid19 so that habit is going to be harder to break than somewhere there were few cases (absolute number or per capita). Here, there’s a lot of people who know someone who got covid19 or died (or both). That is a sobering reality.

I really think it has to do with the same divide that is mapped when you talk about support for gun regulation. Cities tend to want more gun regulation because people are close together. Mask wearing, regardless of state, is at a much higher per capita rate inside urban areas than outside. Guess where the parties are represented.