I was in North and South Carolina for about 10 days at the end of June. What I found interesting when talking with people who live and work in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. and Asheville, N.C. area was that the states were not as "wide open" and hap-hazard as the news media portrayed during the peak covid times. Business were very in tune with CDC guidelines for mask wearing, and social distancing. Our visit happened to coincide at a point when many guidelines were recently lifted. Many restaurants and other places still had employees wearing masks.