Fully vaccinated in February and live in Fort Worth. Used to wear a mask anywhere that required/had a sign. After CDC changed guidelines for vaxed folks, I'm not sure I have put one on.

In the last week in N Dallas no signs or gatekeepers at Target, Walmart, Sams, Tom Thumb but 98% of people wearing one. The few who don't are my fellow older white guys. Don't get the sense anyone really cares I'm maskless.

I think some of the front line folks are over having to wear it. I've gotten a couple of hearty "how are you today sir!" From them.

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SouthTex99 said:

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Most everywhere else is back to normal but not grocery stores. The HEB's in the Rio Grande Valley are still posting signs asking for people to wear masks. And 95%+ comply with it. I generally go without but the ones that do get looked at like they are the Wuhan carrier monkey.

I am suspicious that is only happening here in the liberal RGV. What is everyone is seeing around the state?

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I don't get it. So they ask you to wear it, you're at their place, and you're like, "nah." They make one request at the outset, and you're like, "nope."

They offer curbside or delivery if you're that mask-averse.

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Our Kroger still has the sign stating everyone must wear a mask to enter. Meanwhile, there were Kroger employees not wearing one. I think most signs are either still up b/c they are waiting for either waiting to develop their new policy or get a new policy from corporate. Or just haven't gotten around to taking the signs down. I have yet to be in a store since the CDC dropped masking where I was asked to put one on. I have totally stopped bringing them with me.

Point is, a sign is not necessarily a relevant policy anymore given how quickly things change...Now, if a manager of a retail store were to ask me to continue to wear one in their store, then that would be a different thing. But I just do not see that happening at this point.

Also, I now make it a point to make a store chase me down if they still do want me to wear a mask. I am vaccinated. The CDC says I am not a threat. The more that go to the stores and places still requiring masks without them if we are indeed vaccinated, the quickly mask shaming and policies go away b/c it becomes too hard to enforce AND more people still nervous about taking their's off will start to feel more comfortable to start to take their masks off.

I think you and I both live in the same general area. I've been to two Kroger stores in the last few days. Both still had the normal signs on the sliding doors as you enter that it's required. Then there was another standing sign by the carts that said masks required but there was a small red sign attached saying fully vaccinated no longer had to wear them. I even heard the overhead speakers say the same thing to "please a wear mask, but if you are fully vaccinated then it's no longer required but encouraged." Seems these places are keeping the announcements subtle as possible.

Just saw this older gentleman at the Randolph commissary wear a mask that read "I GOT MY VACCINE" The word MY was embroidered in a different color (for emphasis I guess?) Like much of the virtue signaling that's taking place on either side of the mask / no mask argument, it was amusing!

Got my 2nd shot 3/28 and haven't really worn a mask since about 4/7 unless specifically required to. I'm in Montgomery County, so the compliance has been much more lax here all along. I've not been asked to mask at HEB since then and from my observation, I'd say around 30% still have masks on in the grocery store here.

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I think you and I both live in the same general area. I've been to two Kroger stores in the last few days. Both still had the normal signs on the sliding doors as you enter that it's required. Then there was another standing sign by the carts that said masks required but there was a small red sign attached saying fully vaccinated no longer had to wear them. I even heard the overhead speakers say the same thing to "please a wear mask, but if you are fully vaccinated then it's no longer required but encouraged." Seems these places are keeping the announcements subtle as possible.

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Kroger on Buffalo Speedway @ Westpark had the red sign by the front door yesterday. Shopped without a mask. Still majority had masks (even a double masker was spotted!).

Walmart in Round Rock earlier this week:

No mask required (no signs)
~10% customers not wearing masks
Counted 4/21 Employees not wearing masks

Grand Prairie most stilled masked at the grocery store.

At my HEB I asked the checker and bagger, both with masks below their noses, when HEB would make them stop wearing the stupid mask and they said they were hoping HEB would hop on the governor's June 4th thing even though it doesn't technically apply to private businesses.

At Houston Bunker Hill HEB on Monday I saw almost 100% of customers and employees in masks.

I went to Target in Plano last night (needed gatorade and beer after doing some yard work)

They have a sign about masks if unvaccinated.



I walked in and probably walked by 30+ people and i was the only one w/o a mask. Surely that is not indicative of the Plano vaccination rate. People are just crazy and have completely given in. I actually think people think masks even look good now....ugh.

Canyon, TX. No masks anywhere.

#yourbody yourchoice

North of 50 percent of my county's adults are vaxxed, my grocery store went with national guidelines and I saw 4 people without masks today out of probably 25 or 30 I passed.
I just don't get it.
And I have supported wearing them for the last year, but 995 hospitalizations out of 130 million vaxxed people says it's ok.

Until we can get people to believe that going maskless doesn't automatically mean you're far-right, masks will remain. People are crazy.

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People are such compliant sheep. I haven't worn one even in stores that say they are required. Had a few of those places offer me a mask and I politely declined and they just nodded. Be a leader and let people know it's okay to drop the masks.

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We've set a low bar for leadership, haven't we? My kids can put "going maskless while shopping" among their leadership skills on college apps.

It's weird, isn't it? We stopped at Whole Foods for a beer today (bar still closed). There was a sign on the door stating that fully vaxed people don't need masks. We took ours off and were the only people in the store without them.

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Until we can get people to believe that going maskless doesn't automatically mean you're far-right, masks will remain. People are crazy.

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I kinda think that's right. Just so strange. I was at the Buffalo Soldiers Museum today, and it was blunt...wear a mask. Then I ate at a vegan restaurant...sign said "no mask no service."

The riverwalk in SA today was crammedI would never ever venture to it on a holiday weekend but I have a visitor. No masks at any establishment.

Just ventured into the city for dinner and drinks tonight and there are WAY fewer masks in Houston proper than out in the burbs. What the heck is that?

I posed a similar question on one of the UF boards and I got a variety of answers. One person had an immune deficiency so they were still being cautious, one had someone at home with a compromised immune system so they were being cautious, one said they were doing it to put the workers there at ease, one said they would stop when the employees did, one said his wife was Asian and he had learned over the years to follow the Asian model of wearing one when there was a flu outbreak, and one who,didn't want to be mistaken for an antivaxer etc. So a variety of reasons, but it's still surprising to me, I couldn't wait to be able to do it today. And the workers in the store were fine with it, I was greeted with a big smile. It's a great step forward (by those whose mouths I could see anyway). And again, I largely supported the restrictions over the last year, but that's not where we are now.

I didn't wear a mask for the first time today at randalls in midtown houston. Felt great. Went to specs midtown after and I'd say about 30% of the people weren't wearing masks.