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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think generally, very liberal areas tend to think of the collective, whereas the red areas are much more about the individual, and "I do what I like as long as it's not illegal".. "don't tread on me".

That's also why very liberal areas tend to have higher tax rates, higher minimum wage, more social welfare, do more things for the poor.

It's a collective mindset vs individual mindset.[/quote]
BS. Liberals are generally very selfish people who only care about themselves and their kids. The rest is self-righteous performance. [/quote]
That's pretty much it. Masking lets the type of self-important, self-righteous liberals who infest the DMV show off how much they care. [/quote]

Masking is saving lives.  Masking is helping to control COVID.  Grow up and stop being the problem.[/quote]

Masking outdoors is not saving lives or helping to control covid.[/quote]

moco does not make you mask outdoors.[/quote]

No, they don't. This isn't about what the County requires (which is basically consistent with most places in the country). It's about what people who live in the county choose to do. And they predominantly choose to be more conservative with covid measures than most other people in the country.

It's back to normal most places. I know people having birthday parties at indoor trampoline parks. But people in MoCo still wear n95 masks at playgrounds to "protect each other." This is not typical behavior these days. This thread is discussing why. [/quote]

And moco has some of the lowest covid rates in the country.  But if you want us to be more like Colorado, maybe you should just move there. [/quote]

See this is the thing. MoCos rates are low. But... so are rates in a lot of other places (Colorado... not sure where that came from... is not one of them so I'm ignoring that). But rates are low in NYC. And Chicago. And many other places. NYC's positivity rate = 1.9%. Chicago's = 1.8%. MoCos = 1.4%.

So, yay? MoCo is the best? We win?

But lets be serious. The difference between percentage points in a sub 2% positivity rate is basically rounding error. It's certainly not "special" enough to justify some of the more extreme measures I've seen people in MoCo take.

Again, there's a certain type of Type-A-We're-the-Best-and-most-community-focused-of-them-all competitiveness in MoCo that seems a little unique and addresses OP's original question.  [/quote]

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