In a recent poll of 823 Escambia voters, Inweekly found that two-thirds wear a face mask always. Another 16.2% wear one most of the time. Â Only 5.1% never wear a face mask.
How often do you wear a face mask in public when you can’t social distance?
| Personal | District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | |
| How often | Bergosh | Underhill | May | Bender | Barry | Combined |
| Always | 61.2% | 70.1% | 75.6% | 68.2% | 62.4% | 67.0% |
| Most of the time | 14.5% | 20.1% | 16.5% | 15.6% | 14.0% | 16.2% |
| Some of the time | 16.4% | 8.5% | 6.7% | 11.0% | 13.4% | 11.2% |
| None of the time | 7.9% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 5.2% | 10.2% | 5.1% |
The majority (58.7%) felt that the county commission should impose fines for violating a county-wide mandate requiring face masks inside businesses. Â However, nearly the same percentage of those wanting a mandate didn’t think it was deal breaker if law enforcement didn’t enforce the mandate – 58.4%.
Do you think fines should be imposed on those violating a county mandate requiring face masks inside businesses?
| District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | ||
| Fines | Bergosh | Underhill | May | Bender | Barry | Combined |
| Yes | 52.1% | 66.5% | 67.1% | 56.1% | 51.6% | 58.7% |
| No | 32.7% | 26.2% | 23.8% | 30.1% | 35.7% | 29.6% |
| Undecided | 15.2% | 7.3% | 9.1% | 13.9% | 12.7% | 11.7% |
How important is it to you that deputies enforce a face mask mandate?
| District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | ||
| Enforcement | Bergosh | Underhill | May | Bender | Barry | Combined |
| Important | 57.8% | 64.0% | 61.3% | 55.7% | 52.7% | 58.4% |
| Not Important | 32.1% | 24.0% | 17.9% | 28.7% | 27.3% | 26.0% |
| Undecided | 10.1% | 12.0% | 20.8% | 15.6% | 20.0% | 15.6% |
Among those working, 78.1% said their employer requires them to wear a face mask always (60.8%) or most of the time (17.3%).
Does your employer require you to wear a mask when you can’t social distance?
| District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | ||
| On th Job | Bergosh | Underhill | May | Bender | Barry | Combined |
| Always | 62.2% | 63.8% | 62.2% | 63.0% | 52.6% | 60.8% |
| Most of the time | 12.2% | 17.2% | 24.4% | 13.0% | 21.1% | 17.3% |
| Some of the time | 6.1% | 8.6% | 7.3% | 7.0% | 7.9% | 7.3% |
| None of the time | 19.5% | 10.3% | 6.1% | 17.0% | 18.4% | 14.6% |
Over 80% said it was very important and important that employees wear face masks in restaurants and retail , such as grocery stores, convenient stores and other retail businesses.
When you enter a restaurant how important is it to you that the employees are wearing a mask?
| District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | ||
| Restaurant | Bergosh | Underhill | May | Bender | Barry | Combined |
| Very Important | 63.0% | 68.3% | 76.2% | 73.4% | 63.7% | 69.0% |
| Important | 12.1% | 16.5% | 11.6% | 11.0% | 12.7% | 12.8% |
| Don’t care | 14.5% | 9.8% | 6.7% | 6.9% | 14.6% | 10.4% |
| Not Important | 4.8% | 3.7% | 3.0% | 4.0% | 4.5% | 4.0% |
| Very unImportant | 5.5% | 1.8% | 2.4% | 4.6% | 4.5% | 3.8% |
When you enter a convenient store, grocery store, or other retail establishment, how important is it to you that the employees are wearing a mask?
| District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | ||
| Retail | Bergosh | Underhill | May | Bender | Barry | Combined |
| Very Important | 63.6% | 68.9% | 71.3% | 66.5% | 62.4% | 66.6% |
| Important | 12.7% | 14.0% | 14.0% | 14.5% | 15.9% | 14.2% |
| Don’t care | 13.3% | 9.8% | 7.9% | 8.7% | 12.1% | 10.3% |
| Not Important | 4.8% | 6.1% | 0.6% | 5.2% | 3.2% | 4.0% |
| Very unImportant | 5.5% | 1.2% | 6.1% | 5.2% | 6.4% | 4.9% |
The poll was of 823 Escambia voters equally spread over all five commission districts. Voters were called using an Interactive Voice Response system during the hours of 4-8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 2. The Margin of Error for this study is +/- 4.5% with a confidence level of 95%.
