If a few people would get out of the metro-NY bubble, they would understand that, west of the Mississippi, people don't live in 650sq foot apartments, in 40-floor buildings modeled after Cabrini Green. They also tend not to have eight people in that space and, therefore, can follow the guidelines with or without a mask. NY/NJ were slow to act and no one tells these independent folks what to do. You have to live with the result, but in about 45 other states, it's a bad flu ruining the economy and causing empty hospitals and closed medical service centers.