So I live here in Texas, I went today to a mechanic shop to get a routine vehicle inspection. I came in without a mask after leaving my car with them to get inspected to get an ETA on when it would be finished.
As soon as I walk in the bitch at the counter (and yes, it is ALWAYS a woman on purpose to enforce these rules) starts going "mask, mask! sir, you can't be in here without a mask"
I tell her I'm just asking about my car that I see they are inspecting in the garage. She then continues "I can give you a mask, everyone must wear a mask in here"
I tell her I don't care and that I will not wear the mask. She tells me to wait outside until it is done. I wait 10 minutes, they take my card from the bench outside. I call the girl behind the counter and ask for an apology as soon as I get home. She doubles down and says she won't apologize for "doing her job" I let her know that you'll never worry about seeing me again and have lost my business forever and hang up on her as she stammers and attempts to fake apologize.
I just want to say that I can't stand seeing people wearing these masks anymore. It's about to be 2021.Trump won my county here in Texas and yet I'll be one of about 3 people (if I'm lucky) at the store not wearing a mask and basically the only person anywhere else not wearing the mask. If 74 million people or more voted for Trump why are we continuing to comply everywhere with these rules?? I should see people everywhere in theory without the mask.
I'm so frustrated because I know people just want peace but the mask alone (fuck all the other shit) is ruining society. I've never felt more cut off from society than now. I'm a sociable and kind person and have experienced this behavior at least 4 or 5 times now. I've switched gyms, switched restaurants and now mechanics.
We are losing the battle of the mask. Sorry to sound like a doomer, someone give me a hope about this. Are we really going to go to civil war if we are afraid of the consequences of not wearing a mask in public? I'm not so sure...
Thanks for hearing me out. 8 more years of Trump please God!!
I fn hate the masks, they are dehumanizing and yet I would wear one if I believed that this was about safety and not compliance.
I hate them too. It is about safety. Used correctly, it blocks spit particles when talking, and a portion of aerosol that is caused by breathing, which is a major way of infection when it comes to COVID. But unfortunately it's become a polarising issue. You can find studies for any position on the planet you want to support, but it doesn't make them all correct.
Would you rather someone with flu coughed in the open air or on a handkerchief? Would you rather a doctor operated on you with or without a mask? Exactly. You'll hear people say it blocks airflow (O2), traps carbon dioxide (CO2), which is smaller than COVID, and in the same sentence claim it doesn't block COVID particles which will pass through the fibres.
They've been used in hospitals, dentist offices, surgeries and clinics for decades, because they work. But because they're not 100% in terms of protection and require communal use to increase the protection they offer, people want them scrapped. Doctors in surgeries wear them to protect us from infection, not themselves. We wear it to protect others, others wear them to protect us. It requires community efforts to work, and right now with the Democrats shitting on us, desecrating freedoms, using fraud to get through....community trust is at an all time low. And masks suffer for it (IMO) because we want to do something, anything, to get some of the control back (that is rightly ours and we were fraudulently stripped of).
So if im not wearing a mask im going to sneeze without covering my mouth and cough in someones face? Wrong. Masks and quarantines are for the sick.