I manage in the retail industry. The fake fear in employees is ridiculous, and is stoked/enabled by safety theater put in place by upper management so customers think they give a fuck. One thing I am noticing from customers is less Karen like attitudes about people without masks. I think people by and large are over it, recognizing people aren’t dying in the streets and the risk is massively overblown. Whether a conscious or subconscious understanding I don’t know.

Like some of you below also exposed to thousands of people weekly and nothing for me specifically. Employees who tested positive only had a positive test and no symptoms. It’s infuriating to me at times, we had a 2 month stretch where we had several team members out for really no reason and it put a strain on all of us.