Used to be, if you saw someone at work, school or outside a medical setting wearing a mask, you knew there was something wrong with them. They were being used the "right" way: an attempt to prevent healthy people from getting the germs of a really sick person if the sick person had to go out. They were not for healthy people to have to wear around each other.
Wife is a preschool teacher and just heard they're going back in-person but first have to go over all the mask-wearing propaganda to the kids and "have them understand why they have to wash hands all the time, and wear a mask". I suppose you're going to tell 3 and 4 year olds they can't sit next to their friends and have to stay at their desks with plexiglas boxes around them too? good luck.
It's disgusting. The BOE is requiring the parents to view these propaganda song-and dance videos with their kids to "normalize" wearing masks. This shit isn't ever going to end now. Even after "corona" is gone, they will just make mask wearing commonplace because of irrational fear of any other germs from common cold to flu or whatever else.
Be like a disobedient pre-teen — fake donning, ‘improper’ wearing, dropping it and asking for a clean one, making them tell you 15 times and “comply” until they’re out of sight. Play the victim when they’ve ‘had enough’ — you are under NO obligation to tell the truth or be straightforward with petty tyrants, so make up excuses, pout, accuse them, throw a tantrum, whatever — just don’t refuse to leave and don’t touch anyone, and there’s nothing they can do.
INCREASE THE COST OF ENFORCING MASK MANDATES BEYOND WHAT THEY ARE WILLING TO BEAR, WITHOUT PUTTING YOURSELF AT RISK.