This is one of the things I've been wondering about. Since I haven't been doing any traveling, of late, I don't know what is normal in other states. My sister, over in the Seattle area, talked about people being pretty strict with masks. She hinted at there being a fair amount of mask shaming if you weren't wearing one.

In Idaho, I would say that stores like Home Depot never had more than 40% mask wearing by customers. Staff wore masks for a couple weeks, then stopped. Almost no customers wear masks there. Wal-Mart peaked around 70%, with all staff required to wear them. By now, though, while the staff is still masked, that's pretty nearly an indicator of an employee, as mask wearing by the public is probably below 10%. One other supply store, has probably 70% staff wearing masks, while only a few percent of customers are masked. Mask wearing outside of stores appears to be 0%.

We're one of the states seeing a dramatic increase, at least in this area, though we are starting from a very low base (~25 cases two weeks back, 125 the next week, then 300). Still, I feel like the public health organizations are struggling to get people to believe there's an issue. As a percentage of the population, 300 is insignificant, but the problem with an exponential increase is that it isn't significant...until it very much is, and the change happens fast.

Are other parts of the country paying more attention?