>We find that the majority of respondents (56%) are not willing to pay to be exempted from mandatory masking. However, the average person was willing to pay $52

>We find that the majority of respondents (56%) are not willing to pay to be exempted from mandatory masking. However, the average person was willing to pay $525, and a small segment of the population (0.9%) stated they were willing to pay over $5,000 to be exempted from the mandate. This methodology is clearly flawed because the penalty for not masking in the US was zero (other than social scorn, which paying for exemption likely would not remove anyway). No city was arresting nor fining people for not masking. Thus, it's pretty irrational to pay any amount. It would be much more interesting to run this survey in China where mandates were strictly enforced.