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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly we have community spread here in AZ. What are the roots of it? From what I’ve seen:

1) the 20 something bar crowd...they do not care, and capacity restrictions are not being enforced AT ALL

2) the lower income Latino communities- larger families living in close quarters, most work in the service industry and bring it home, and more proximity to & reliance on extended family. These parents can’t work from home (and most worked straight through the shutdown as essential workers)- kids cared for by grandma or aunt etc. Also less healthy than the general population as a whole.

It is true people here are not good about wearing masks (varies by community) and that is exacerbating the problem - there should be a mandate. However all of the MW states are as bad or worse about masks and they aren’t seeing spread to this degree. I’ll be curious to see how things look in a month or so in those states, particularly the urban areas.

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I live in NW Tucson and don't agree the root of the problem is with those 2 groups.  From the beginning there were so many people not taking this seriously but had no choice other than to social distance or SIP since nothing was open.  Those things that were open, though, were busy!  Several of my neighbors have been throwing parties and socializing on the dl since this started and I live in a higher SES gated community where most of us are working from home.  We go to a charter school and I'd estimate about 75% of our school friend families jumped immediately at day care, JCC/YMCA camps, swim team, etc. the second they opened up.  Again, most were compliant up until that point because there was no other choice.  Now, churches are open and from the videos I saw, no one is wearing masks and they eased up on the sd rules by the 2nd Sunday.  Friends are posting pics of their outings to indoor play places and they're packed - and I see very few pics of masks.  Just this weekend, youth sports started back up.  Again, no masks.  We finally went out to dinner at Noble Hops with our adult daughter last weekend and it was jam-packed with UMC people hugging on each other and their dogs - no masks anywhere (except the wait staff).

My family has been sheltering in place since spring break in mid-march and have been very diligent, but even my reason for being compliant wasn't totally for the good of the community, but rather I'm a homebody and feared getting sick.  And now because I still don't want to get sick and it's so uncomfortable to wear masks in this heat, I'd still prefer to stay home.  Someone else mentioned we wasted our window and I totally agree.  Everyone has SIP fatigue and most of those that did take it seriously in the beginning aren't anymore.  I was ready to ease up myself until I saw reports late last week and changed my mind.  [/quote]

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