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Poll results: Most Richmond News readers will continue to wear masks if mandate is dropped

Most Richmond News readers say they will keep wearing masks even if the mandate was dropped today
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Most Richmond News readers say they will keep wearing masks even if the mandate is dropped

Richmond News polled 1,515 Richmond News readers and asked the question: Would you continue to wear a mask even if the mandate was dropped today?

The poll ran from 2/3/2022 to 2/11/2022. Of the 1,515 votes, we can determine that 289 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, I prefer to keep wearing it 35.99 % local, 32.41 % total    
Yes, only indoors or in crowded places 48.44 % local, 43.89 % total    
No, I can't wait to get rid of it 15.57 % local, 23.70 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.51%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.