Fellow Michiganpede, I hear you. Masks are now a talisman + shibboleth for doing any in-person commerce in our state. I'm not afraid of the virus and I don't want to participate in their fear-worship in any way, but my family does need to eat.
So though it's a relatively 'beta' solution, in addition to doing what I can to push repeal and recall petitions, I now superficially begin donning a mask on entry to adamant stores then wear it in 'fully under chin' mode or sometimes the 'too stupid to put it over my nose' mode. No one has given me any complaint about it yet since I still effectively register as "one of us, one of us".
Given that masks are all being completely misused by design, you can 'do it wrong' 9 times out of 10 and still get by. Just look at the workers in any fast food store. They aren't paid enough to put up with this shit, and as a customer paying for the goods that I need to live, neither am I.
Before 2020, I thought I knew who my neighbors were and had a sense for what they believed; that they held shared values keeping us together. I look around now and wonder, who are you people? Do you not care about anything that has made America what it is? I know as a Christian, this is not my real home, but never before have I so viscerally felt like a foreigner in my own land.
"For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." Heb 13:14
Fellow Michiganpede, I hear you. Masks are now a talisman + shibboleth for doing any in-person commerce in our state. I'm not afraid of the virus and I don't want to participate in their fear-worship in any way, but my family does need to eat.
So though it's a relatively 'beta' solution, in addition to doing what I can to push repeal and recall petitions, I now superficially begin donning a mask on entry to adamant stores then wear it in 'fully under chin' mode or sometimes the 'too stupid to put it over my nose' mode. No one has given me any complaint about it yet since I still effectively register as "one of us, one of us".
Given that masks are all being completely misused by design, you can 'do it wrong' 9 times out of 10 and still get by. Just look at the workers in any fast food store. They aren't paid enough to put up with this shit, and as a customer paying for the goods that I need to live, neither am I.
Before 2020, I thought I knew who my neighbors were and had a sense for what they believed; that they held shared values keeping us together. I look around now and wonder, who are you people? Do you not care about anything that has made America what it is? I know as a Christian, this is not my real home, but never before have I so viscerally felt like a foreigner in my own home land.
"For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." Heb 13:14