I wore a mask the other day to go to Costco for the first time in months. I really wanted to go and brought one of my old masks they handed me at the Doctors office months ago. Wearing a mask was dehumanizing and I felt very ashamed for doing it. I saw a group of 3 people not wearing a mask and I felt more ashamed of myself. Why wasn't I brave enough to not wear the mask?
Today I redeemed myself and regained some of my humanity. My state of Michigan requires a mask under penalty of a misdemeanor and $500 fine. I had to build up my courage but I went grocery shopping and did not wear a mask. I saw only one other person not wearing a mask and 1 person with the mask pulled down completely.
It isn't much but I told myself that if I can't stand up for a small infringement on my rights that I will never stand up for a large infringement.
Good for you. Hopefully the attitude spreads. Since the latest mandate from the mean one, Mr. Gretch, I've worn a mask just out of respect to the business owners (she has a giant set, but didn't have the balls to try to enforce the edict on individuals). I try to avoid public places as much as possible because I don't want to feel the way you did, but I've been in 3 places - 1 I felt like an asshole because they had a sign on the door saying that if you didn't wear one they wouldn't ask why (restaurant), 1 had everybody wearing them (grocery store), and the third was a small shop - they didn't have them on, so I took it off.
I think folks might wear them for a little bit just because she's trying to turn people on each other for enforcing it, but eventually they'll get sick of it. Hopefully next week the recall petition gets more signatures than they know what to do with. If that bitch was on fire I wouldn't piss on her to put it out.
The worst part is half-wit's mask order STILL has an exclusion for not wearing masks. But you have to get to page 3 to find it. The fine has everyone terrorized and playing karen. No one actually read the order.