Current Events > A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S.

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In some American neighborhoods, its hard to spot even one person outside without a face covering. In others, your odds of seeing many maskless people are quite high. The map shows broad regional patterns: Mask use is high in the Northeast and the West, and lower in the Plains and parts of the South. But it also shows many fine-grained local differences. Masks are widely worn in the District of Columbia, but there are sections of the suburbs in both Maryland and Virginia where norms seem to be different. In St. Louis and its western suburbs, mask use seems to be high. But across the Missouri River, it falls. In many parts of Georgia, seeing unmasked people is common, but mask use is very high in the area around the city of Albany, where there was an early and intense outbreak of coronavirus.

Mask wearing is common among Americans of both political parties, but there is a 20-point split in many surveys, with Republicans substantially less likely to say they wear masks often or always and much more likely to say they never wear a face covering. You might think the divide can be explained by where people live. In general, Republicans are more likely to live in states with less population density, and in places that have had laxer rules about masks and lower rates of coronavirus infections, at least early in the pandemic. But research from a team that includes Shana Gadarian, an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University, has found that your political party is a better predictor of mask use than any other factor they measured. Her team compared people of the same age and living in the same ZIP code, and found partisan differences in mask behavior. The big takeaway of all of the data is partisanship is the big determinant of all of the behavior, she said. Its not age. Its not where you live. The behavior tracks other measures of the relationship between partisan identity and views about coronavirus. A team of political science researchers tracked peoples concern about the dangerousness of the virus and their number of daily activities since the viruss arrival in the United States. Those researchers found that partisanship, more than any other factor, explained who was worried about Covid-19, and how many social activities they engaged in. Between March and early June, when the study ended, that partisan divide only widened.

The map: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1284145844871200768



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I really hate color maps like that. I can't fucking tell the difference between slightly darker/lighter shades of the same color. Give me some f'n numbers.

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Vs areas with most covid cases

Looks like someone open a can of beets on a map

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Hey, my area is about the only place in MN doing okay.

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lol, North Dakota

that was my state fair project

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Bad_Mojo posted...

I really hate color maps like that. I can't fucking tell the difference between slightly darker/lighter shades of the same color. Give me some f'n numbers.

Article is paywalled but for those that can go to it. The map is interactive you can hover over areas and get numbers.

https://i.imgur.com/rbaKRHn.png


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Nice to see NY full of color, though I wish it were all dark purple.

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That heat map is using a bit odd of a metric. Wonder why they couldn't just go with chance of random encounter wearing mask, I wonder why it needs to be five encounters?

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Is it even possible to find five random people in Wyoming and Montana?

But research from a team that includes Shana Gadarian, an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University, has found that your political party is a better predictor of mask use than any other factor they measured. Her team compared people of the same age and living in the same ZIP code, and found partisan differences in mask behavior. The big takeaway of all of the data is partisanship is the big determinant of all of the behavior, she said. Its not age. Its not where you live. The behavior tracks other measures of the relationship between partisan identity and views about coronavirus.

So Democrats wears masks, Republicans don't.
I didn't really need a map to tell me that

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