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Originally Posted by Heyitsrick
I read an anecdotal report from someone here in this thread who stated that in their observation - as a grocery store worker - teenagers and 20ish people are more vigilant about wearing masks, and if there are those who are not wearing them, they are most likely to be seniors.
I found this quite curious - given that seniors make up the overwhelming percentage of the population around TV, why wouldn't it follow that one might see more seniors without masks than young people? That's a given, based on numbers alone.
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Once again - read what I write, and not what you think I meant. I'm very careful with my words most of the time.
I am referring SPECIFICALLY to my observations about customers in grocery stores. I'm not referring to anything else. My post was in direct response to someone who was ALSO specifically referring to HIS observations about customers in grocery stores.
Grocery stores, as many people may have forgotten in their old age, are open to the public. They are, as many seem to have eliminated from their diminished memories, in areas that have people OTHER than seniors living in them. The Villages are merely the three corners of three fairly sizeable counties, with major state roads slicing through it. People living near the villages also go grocery shopping. Many of those people have kids. Many of those people ARE kids. And those kids sometimes pop into the grocery store. MOST of those kids wear masks. There might be only 10 kids who show up on their own, without their parents, during my shift. But on MOST days - all 10 will be wearing a mask.
Compare to families who come in with adult parents and youths as their kids - there are maybe 30 of those who come in on a daily basis. And of those 30 families - with a minimum of 3 people shopping (so 90 people) only around 70 of them will be wearing masks.
Compare to the hundreds of Seniors I see every day - out of - let's call it 500 individual senior customers who aren't coming in with their spouse or kids or caretakers - only maybe 400 of them are wearing masks.
You can do the math. But it won't be accurate because these are estimates based on one person's observations.
But I'd venture to say, with an EDUCATED guess from someone who actually works there and is able to see the trends at least 2 days a week, on average 3 days every week, both weekends and weekdays, any time between 8am and 6pm...
That the majority of "teenagers and young 20-somethings who come into the store without their families, and are customers", on most days, I will notice nearly 100% of the time they are wearing masks.
And that while the majority of seniors also wear masks, the percentage of them is significantly lower. Maybe only 85-90%.
Of the entire population, the majority people who come in that include parents with their young kids - they are the most disturbing of the bunch. Because the ones who don't wear the masks, are teaching their kids that they don't need to care about anyone else. And those kids will grow up believing it.