And Just Like That, Masks Are No Longer Necessary

Back to the topic, more than 50% of customers in King Soopers, on Sunday 5/23, not wearing masks. While in the store several individuals removed their masks upon nothing the absence on others. Makes one wonder whether they pay attention to what has changed and they have simply been beaten into mask acquiescence.

koobookie wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Great question. Everyone imagines this Golden Age of Reporting but I don't think it ever existed. Many early newspapers were political broadsheets created to influence public opinion and win votes for a political party. Today should be a great time because it is pretty cheap to become a news provider. Start up a You-Tube channel, create a blog. The downside is very few vet what content is being put out there.

If I understand you correctly, you think there has never been a time when there was unbiased reporting, that journalism has always had the reporters opinions influencing the stories they covered?

Of course. They gather the facts and filter them through their biases. True, they do get assigned stories, but then they put their own spin on them.

FredHayek wrote: Of course. They gather the facts and filter them through their biases. True, they do get assigned stories, but then they put their own spin on them.

So what's the difference with journalism today? Is the bias worse or better than the Cronkite era? If, as you say, bias has always been present in journalism, then where's the beef?

SC,
I agree that if an individual desires to wear a mask, go for it. ( As an aside in what field is Francesa a professor?) Do you think that she would like a burka? Her entire body would be hidden from the world.
Good for her that she identifies with Harry Potter novels, I also enjoyed reading them to my grandchildren, but I realize that it is fiction, the "invisibility cloak". Or does she have a bad complexion? It is interesting that your quote singles out women as the most likely to continue mask wearing. By the way, if this can get by the moderators and not put somewhere else, , do you intend to continue to wear a mask? If so, why, scientifically, not on the basis of an invisibility cloak.
In my acquaintances I know of no one who demands that you not wear a mask, rather, just don't impose your values on them.

“Maybe it’s because I’m a New Yorker or maybe it’s because I always feel like I have to present my best self to the world, but it has been such a relief to feel anonymous,” she said. “It’s like having a force field around me that says ‘don’t see me’.”

I hadn't realized that "presenting your best self"was an issue. Maybe it's because I am older and don't really
care about what people think of me. I am ME.....there is no pretense,no facade,who I am is straight up
and no games.

The mask thing,for me,has ALWAYS been fuzzy and out of focus...UNLESS u r a first responder or Med.
professional. CORRECT mask for the problem was/is a confusing issue.. any old piece of cloth,
fashioned into a face cover was/is a joke.

ramage wrote: Back to the topic, more than 50% of customers in King Soopers, on Sunday 5/23, not wearing masks. While in the store several individuals removed their masks upon nothing the absence on others. Makes one wonder whether they pay attention to what has changed and they have simply been beaten into mask acquiescence.

Or it may be that overall, 2,504,451 people or 43.49% of Colorado's population have been fully vaccinated. Your personal observation that 50% of customers in a single King Soopers were not wearing masks backs that up. A single observation from a single point (a bus, a mall, a theater) could swing wildly in either direction.

In order to continue this, we need to know just HOW MANY customers wearing masks took them off while you were looking. You said "several." Define: several