Necessary or needless? Three months into the pandemic, Americans divided on wearing masks

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Necessary or needless? Three months into the pandemic, Americans divided on wearing masks
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Three months into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are divided over wearing masks.

The same scenario is playing out elsewhere and is a phenomenon known as"caution fatigue," where people become desensitized to warnings as a result of physical and mental exhaustion from observing safety guidance, according to Jackie Gollan, an associate professor of psychiatry and a clinical psychologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who conducts research on how habits interfere with goals.

"People do things that are risky like not wearing a mask or washing their hands assuming that others have taken safety precautions," she said."So, 'I'm at less risk because you're wearing the mask.'"of the coronavirus, nearly everyone at a shopping center east of downtown last Thursday was wearing a mask.

"I have no interest in going to restaurants. I've got no interest in going back to the gym," he said."I have no interest in being around people for a long time." "The only way to shop for records is by touching all of them and being very close to them, and it can be a pretty intimate thing," Swider said.

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