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Is going out without a mask an act of aggression? Some in Philly take it that way.

"I do feel like I get judging glares when I’m out without it — at the post office, gas station, whatever. But then I see people driving alone with them on and I’m like, ‘Why?’”

Dena Driscoll and her kids Milo, 9, and Juniper, 6, stand outside their home in the Passyunk Square neighborhood in Philadelphia. Getting the kids to wear masks has been a daily negotiation -- especially when so many other people are going out uncovered.
Dena Driscoll and her kids Milo, 9, and Juniper, 6, stand outside their home in the Passyunk Square neighborhood in Philadelphia. Getting the kids to wear masks has been a daily negotiation -- especially when so many other people are going out uncovered.Read moreMONICA HERNDON / Staff Photographer