some of the pics are from years ago before you accuse research
Some of the pics were from years ago, but if you visited those neighborhoods you saw it yourself.
I went to get a suit shatnes tested in Williamsburg in Elul. The only one wearing a mask on Lee Avenue was a delivery man.
I wore a mask and when I asked someone about masks I was told "no one has been sick since Pesach."
That was my one and only trip to W'burg, but I do visit KGH pretty frequently. Mask compliance is better there, but often the mask is below the nose or chin and outside of major stores like Arons or Seasons, SD is never enforced.
Even when I went to buy daled minim last week, the pop up store had zero SD and maybe 1 out of 3 people wore masks properly.
So yes, some of the pictures may be old, but anyone who is in one of these places knows that reality is people are not masking or SD.