Except this isn’t a local small business owner making a decision. This is a coordinated effort by all of these mega corporations to push a bullshit agenda. It’s the same thing with all the local newspapers getting bought up by one master corporation that owns them all, and then all those papers, that used to be diverse, independent, and different, become monolithic, coordinated, all acting in unison. Sure the argument might be made that “he who owns the newspapers gets to decide this, not you”, but it’s also not the way this was supposed to be, and everyone knows it. It’s not just the mask mandate, it’s the way it is coordinated and pushed by monolithic powers.