I gotta buy groceries, man. I live in CA so they freak if you don't wear it. I also take it off right when I'm done paying. I walk to the car without it, and I don't put it on until I take a step inside the store.
If I just take it off, they'll throw me out. The grocery store is literally the one place I go where I wear the mask. Gotta buy food. Sucks.
It’s about simply telling yourself you don’t do business with those businesses. If you do that, you won’t care or feel embarrassed if someone tries to play hall monitor. You just do business elsewhere.
Or ya know, they’re just people doing their jobs because upper management is pushing the mask mandate and they don’t want to catch shit/lose their job for not enforcing it. But yeah, all assholes.
They meaning the business. I’m also clearly not describing being mean or saying anything to the employees, even on a personal level. I’m merely saying tell yourself they don’t deserve your business. That’s it.
Whenever you're doing non-compliance, smile, agree, and thank the mindless Karen, but just keep doing whatever it was you were doing. You can keep going with "OK. Cool. Thanks a lot. Yeah, gotcha" until the Karen either completely loses their mind or just leaves you alone.
Did you give any pushback or immediately fold? I've been asked to leave and put on my mask more than I can count, but I've ALWAYS been able to make my purchase.
I tell people "I really wish I could" [bring myself to] "wear a mask, but I have difficulty breathing." (that last part is true for everyone - it's harder to breathe with a mask). "I don't want to cause a disturbance, I'm not making a statement, I'd just like to make my purchase in peace." This keeps me righteous, non-confrontational, and taps the manager/security guard's humanity.
Having some kind of inhaler on your person helps sell this as well (although I never lie)
I got kicked out and banned from my local Giant for shopping without a mask a couple weeks ago. The manager called the police, lied about having told me before that I needed to wear a mask in the store (literally only the second time I'd gone into that store maskless, and the first time no one said anything to me at all) regardless of any health conditions I had, and had the cop escort me out and told me I wasn't welcome back in.
And that would be a prime example of a business I would go out of my way to make sure never gets my money again. I'd tell them on a regular basis, too. I tweet @Menards periodically whenever talking about how they've lost my business forever thanks to being mask gestapo.
Proven to cause 17% less oxygen with each breath. I see people at the gym working out with masks on and it’s got to be miserable. We’re required to wear them at work everyday doing some brutal labor and the only time we wear them is when there’s safety people around.
Even they don’t wear them if they’re in a secluded place with 1-2 people they trust. It’s all a fucking farce.
The only reason I wear one in a store is so I don’t get bitched at because I’ll flip out on someone
I've only been kicked out of one store (Menard's). I told them on my way out that I'll never give them a dime again, and I fuckin meant it (they don't care of course). Even after all this is said and done, they're forever on my shit list. Lowe's and Home Depot still let me right in with no mask.
I know one of the local grocery Change has said they will not enforce it if you don’t wear it to avoid conflict. They will absolutely give you dirty looks and possibly follow you a bit but they won’t say a word.
Lol I have noticed that too. With the exception of small towns which largely don’t have masks, it’s definitely true for all the big cities. the less white people, the less masks.
In Oregon there is a car detailing shop where all the workers are Mexican and none of them wear masks lol
how exactly are people getting fined? What are they gonna chase you around the store? By the time police show up, you'll be done shopping probably. I don't understand this whole fine thing. .How many people have actually been fined? I've been maskless the entire time and never got anywhere close to a fine
I think I saw that either Evansville, IN implemented a $1K fine, or Holcomb did it for the entire state. I can't remember which. I know people who've gone to Evansville maskless and never got fined. Yelled at by some Karens, but no fines.
I would view it as toothless and take my chances. You'd think with something that retarded you could just wait it out and it would probably be done away with (like in Florida), but shit does seem to get crazier as time goes on.
I keep all the places I go to mask free a secret, especially online. All the Karens here in St. Louis get that shit shut down real quick. It happens incredibly quick and the county executive nazi dictator here has rolling gangs of minion enforcers driving around in a fleet of brand new trucks and cars. A few months ago I dropped my truck off at a big name shop and nobody was wearing a mask, no body behind the counters or mechanics. Somebody snitched and when I went to pick my truck up the next day everybody was wearing a mask and they had signs everywhere and jumped down my throat talking about all the fines they can get because I’m in there without a face diaper.
I like the idea of that and wish we had a good online resource for finding mask-optional establishments, but I know that would be picked up by the Kantankerous Karen Klan and used for mass reporting to the gestapo.
That's how I started getting the courage to simply walk in without one. Try it! You have nothing to lose.
I'm in PA and have been kicked out of 2 stores. It's humiliating.
Yeah - I myself just keep it off my nose. I’ve been corrected for that by clerks and I just say I’m not interested in that, thanks anyway.
I am not interested in having conflicts everywhere I go and I just want to get my shit and go home. I realize it’s cowardly but I am starting small.
I leave it below my nose too.
I gotta buy groceries, man. I live in CA so they freak if you don't wear it. I also take it off right when I'm done paying. I walk to the car without it, and I don't put it on until I take a step inside the store.
If I just take it off, they'll throw me out. The grocery store is literally the one place I go where I wear the mask. Gotta buy food. Sucks.
Perhaps "Thanks but I already belong to a church" is an appropriate response.
Don’t let it get to you. Just have the mindset that if they ask you to wear a mask, they are assholes and don’t deserve your business.
At one place, I was asked multiple times to wear a mask. I was HAPPY to leave.
Before it happened I was worried of getting kicked out and feeling embarrassed, but now I wish it happened more often. It felt good to leave.
Min. wage employees DGAF if you take your business somewhere else.
It’s about simply telling yourself you don’t do business with those businesses. If you do that, you won’t care or feel embarrassed if someone tries to play hall monitor. You just do business elsewhere.
Or ya know, they’re just people doing their jobs because upper management is pushing the mask mandate and they don’t want to catch shit/lose their job for not enforcing it. But yeah, all assholes.
They meaning the business. I’m also clearly not describing being mean or saying anything to the employees, even on a personal level. I’m merely saying tell yourself they don’t deserve your business. That’s it.
Whenever you're doing non-compliance, smile, agree, and thank the mindless Karen, but just keep doing whatever it was you were doing. You can keep going with "OK. Cool. Thanks a lot. Yeah, gotcha" until the Karen either completely loses their mind or just leaves you alone.
Did you give any pushback or immediately fold? I've been asked to leave and put on my mask more than I can count, but I've ALWAYS been able to make my purchase.
I tell people "I really wish I could" [bring myself to] "wear a mask, but I have difficulty breathing." (that last part is true for everyone - it's harder to breathe with a mask). "I don't want to cause a disturbance, I'm not making a statement, I'd just like to make my purchase in peace." This keeps me righteous, non-confrontational, and taps the manager/security guard's humanity.
Having some kind of inhaler on your person helps sell this as well (although I never lie)
I got kicked out and banned from my local Giant for shopping without a mask a couple weeks ago. The manager called the police, lied about having told me before that I needed to wear a mask in the store (literally only the second time I'd gone into that store maskless, and the first time no one said anything to me at all) regardless of any health conditions I had, and had the cop escort me out and told me I wasn't welcome back in.
Thanks Maryland.
Might be a store policy [mandate] nationwide, thanks, I'll know to avoid [boycott] Giant.
Keep up the good fight pede.
And that would be a prime example of a business I would go out of my way to make sure never gets my money again. I'd tell them on a regular basis, too. I tweet @Menards periodically whenever talking about how they've lost my business forever thanks to being mask gestapo.
She wants the B. 😎
Proven to cause 17% less oxygen with each breath. I see people at the gym working out with masks on and it’s got to be miserable. We’re required to wear them at work everyday doing some brutal labor and the only time we wear them is when there’s safety people around.
Even they don’t wear them if they’re in a secluded place with 1-2 people they trust. It’s all a fucking farce.
The only reason I wear one in a store is so I don’t get bitched at because I’ll flip out on someone
Would love to have a source on that 17% if you know of one
I've only been kicked out of one store (Menard's). I told them on my way out that I'll never give them a dime again, and I fuckin meant it (they don't care of course). Even after all this is said and done, they're forever on my shit list. Lowe's and Home Depot still let me right in with no mask.
Do you live in a place where it is mandated and enforced by clerks?
Under Furor Cuomo, himself.
Haha, nice
I’m in Jaydolf Inslee’s province myself, deep in the bluest of the blue areas
Biden signs everywhere
Karen screechers everywhere
Fuck Seattle. Has the tent city under the i5 interchange elected their own mayor yet?
Hail fellow serf, i too live in king inslee's realm.
Sorry to hear.
Maybe print your own mask with that picture of Cuomo maskless?
Or Fauci?
https://24hourwristbands.com/custom-face-masks
just be careful not to misgender someone or you'll get smacked with big bird's $250k fine.
Dealing with Andolf Beshear (or Kim Jong Andy) here.
I'm under Tyrants Newsome and Garcetti ("snitches get rewards").
I know one of the local grocery Change has said they will not enforce it if you don’t wear it to avoid conflict. They will absolutely give you dirty looks and possibly follow you a bit but they won’t say a word.
I go to Dunkin’ Donuts no mask - manager loves me.
Western beef no mask - no customers say anything. Sometimes I’ll put it on at the register.
The “whiter“ the store the more the enforcement.
Best part is I have a red Trump mask so even if I have to wear one someone is going to get triggered.
“The whiter the store”
Lol I have noticed that too. With the exception of small towns which largely don’t have masks, it’s definitely true for all the big cities. the less white people, the less masks.
In Oregon there is a car detailing shop where all the workers are Mexican and none of them wear masks lol
Some States and Counties have 1k fines or 1 year in jail as a penalty.
8th Amendment is irrelevant I guess.
What you think will happen if you just don’t pay the fine? Arrest you at home?
Warrant for your arrest. Blocks on DMV registration, license renewal.
We're fucked.
I don't know.
In some commie states or commie cities like Austin Texas, then yes, they will arrest you at home.
how exactly are people getting fined? What are they gonna chase you around the store? By the time police show up, you'll be done shopping probably. I don't understand this whole fine thing. .How many people have actually been fined? I've been maskless the entire time and never got anywhere close to a fine
I think I saw that either Evansville, IN implemented a $1K fine, or Holcomb did it for the entire state. I can't remember which. I know people who've gone to Evansville maskless and never got fined. Yelled at by some Karens, but no fines.
I would view it as toothless and take my chances. You'd think with something that retarded you could just wait it out and it would probably be done away with (like in Florida), but shit does seem to get crazier as time goes on.
My plan was to wait it out yeah. Just seems to be getting more and more insane and more normalized.
I keep all the places I go to mask free a secret, especially online. All the Karens here in St. Louis get that shit shut down real quick. It happens incredibly quick and the county executive nazi dictator here has rolling gangs of minion enforcers driving around in a fleet of brand new trucks and cars. A few months ago I dropped my truck off at a big name shop and nobody was wearing a mask, no body behind the counters or mechanics. Somebody snitched and when I went to pick my truck up the next day everybody was wearing a mask and they had signs everywhere and jumped down my throat talking about all the fines they can get because I’m in there without a face diaper.
My local indoor shooting range won't wear them and don't give a shit about others wearing them.
I like the idea of that and wish we had a good online resource for finding mask-optional establishments, but I know that would be picked up by the Kantankerous Karen Klan and used for mass reporting to the gestapo.