Thankfully I've only had 2 issues, both at the grocery store.
A couple weeks ago one of the employees asked if I had a mask on the way in- this happens fairly often, you just say "I have an exemption" and they say "ok" and you move on. Exempt this time an employee asked if I had an exemption card (which don't exist here) and we argued for a minute before she let me go. I called the store to complain and the manager apologized to me.
Today was my 1st member of the public. Some WuFlu Willy started harassing me as I was going down the aisle (even in compliance with the arrows!) about a mask. Got a pic but sadly the video didn't record. Went on some rant about me getting everyone sick, about his wife being in the cancer hospital, that it was "BULLSHIT" that I had an exemption (wish I'd said the same about his wife), saying that I should send someone else to get my groceries or get curbside/delivery (he didn't have a good answer as to why he wasn't doing it as he was so concerned). He claimed exemptions don't exist in the bylaw (they do, the sign at the front of the store even mentions them lol) and to top it off he was wearing a mask with valves, which they say don't prevent the spread...sadly I didn't think to say that to him at the time.
There was an employee at the end of the aisle so I yelled at her to get security and the guy walked away, stopping only to rant at the employee for allowing people without masks in before leaving.
I was at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in Montana and tried to go inside a gas station to pay for gas. Attendant wouldn't let me in unless I had a doctor's note. So I drove 2 miles down the highway to another gas station that had card readers at the pump.
There's a no more fungible retail commodity than gasoline; I can't imagine a greater lunacy than to tell someone to buy it somewhere else. Especially at a station with pumps so old they lack card readers.
A positive story to balance things out: a restaurant I frequent has declared me an "employee" complete with cover story that I may dine indoors when they aren't busy. I never wear a mask, and I think the servers appreciate not having to deal with that bullshit when I'm around as much as I do. I make sure to tip well.
A doctor's note to buy gas? top lols
On a similar note I got targeted by the nurse Rachet TSA screener in Helena. After the machine she still wiped down my luggage and my hands and made a big deal about it (Twice!), then demanded a pat down, then a second closer patdown where she snarled we could go into a private room. I looked her right in the eye and told her we were going to do it in full view in public, right there.
These petty fucking tyrants enforcing the rules of the state. They are the enemy.
One of the most ridiculous TSA encounters was when I was in a full military dress uniform. It's frustrating to have to take off your dress coat with all your metals, and cover, and tie-clasp, and shoes, and belt.
I'm basically 50% undressed at this point, and she scanned me over with the metal detector and it binged on my shirt stays. They are small metal clips that hook your shirt all the way to your socks to keep it tight. They're a bitch to get on and off, about 30 seconds for each stay, of which there are four. You wear your pants over them.
When I told her what they were, she told me to remove them since they were metal. This means I would have to take off my pants in public wearing nothing but my shirt, my tie, my socks, and some underwear for 2 full minutes at max speed, in font of probably 50-100 people waiting in line.
"Those are my shirt stays. [explanation given]"
"If they're metal then you need to remove them and send them through the scanner."
"Ma'am I'd have to take my pants off to do that."
"Go ahead and remove them."
"I'm not doing that."
"You need to remove them."
"That's not happening. Pat me down if you need to. Call the police if you need to."
She just waived me through and got to keep my pants on, how generous. She was either fucking retarded thinking that someone with a military ID in military dress uniform had an infinitely thin bomb, knife, or gun in his dress sock (but she was unwilling to test this with a simple visual or physical inspection); or she was playing a bit of a power game to see what she could get away with.
The second thing. It's always the second thing.
If it wasn't TSA wouldn't have let basically every "bomb" their supervisors smuggled through as a test.
Someone tried that line about a doctors note on my wife and she then went on a five minute tirade in response citing the exact federal statutes that asking such questions violate including HIPPA and the ADA. Don't piss off a lawyer who spent a decade of their life litigating such cases. Including pulling out her phone and starting to record asking them to ask her about the doctors note again for evidence in the lawsuit...
They backed off after that as did anyone else in the store.
Do you live in Montana? How is the general covid hysteria there? Thinking of moving.
No I was just driving through on a road trip. Though it seemed like they took it more seriously the places I stopped in Montana than the places I stopped at in Idaho and South Dakota.
I've never had issues like this. I have a sneaking suspicion it's because not enough of you look like you'll beat someone's ass for looking at you sideways.
Master the art of the scowl, gentlemen. It'll save you a lot of grief.
Underrated post right here.
If only one refugee is a terrorist...
If only one kid was misdiagnosed as transgender...
If only one woman was a lemon-stealing whore...
If only 13% of the population commits 50% of the violent crimes, isn't it better to save one life...
I still can't believe the left are pulling out the bowl of skittles argument. The argument is a fallacy in multiple ways, but it's also a fucking easy to use against any other argument that they don't want to support.
If one Syrian refugee is a terrorist...
Don Trump Jr legit said that and the left went apeshit.
They are incapable of learning.
Also, do you have a link from the tweet?
A fellow connoisseur.
I'd like to see your sources for the 2% figure. That's just noise, not even a measurable result.
Frankly I don't think there is any good mask efficacy study out there. You can't intuit it from disease spread by state or county, since there are just too many other factors that could contribute. You can't do it ethically in a lab. You can't control for people "wearing them right" or using "the right kind".
And further, I remember when the American medical societies (pre-COVID) told us mask wearing countries like China and Japan actually see zero benefit. The whole thing is a farce.
Thank you! I'll have to go over the study a little more carefully, but first pass they even acknowledge that mask mandates largely went into effect alongside other social distancing procedures, meaning you've already got a high causal density and parsing out single-item effects is impossible. Which doesn't even matter since 2% is abysmal in terms of gains and not statistically significant anyway. Yikes.
I doubt it. The Branch Covidians don't even have the self-awareness to feel brave for standing three inches away from a dangerous infected. They only care about enforcing their will on their enemies.
I like when they pull down their mask to yell better.
OH NO NO NO...that could be considered assault, my friend. They hate it when to stay calm and know the facts better than they do.
I was polite and respectful the whole time, even when he claimed I was lying about having an exemption. They want justification for their behavior, I laugh thinking about this guy googling "mask bylaw exemption" and imagining his face when he learns I was right. Or if he calls the store and they tell him the same. This is assuming he wrongly thinks he knows the bylaw or was just bullshitting.
What clearly upset him the most was when I asked for store security. Deep down I think he knows he was in the wrong- he didn't stick around to see the store employees side with him and kick me out for not wearing a mask. He didn't stop to argue with store staff, he ran off worried that he was going to be banned from the store if he stuck around.
People in the UK won't even listen to you whether you have an exemption or not, no mask no entry. Because they can't see the asthma, even if you wave your inhalers in their face, they tell you that you're making it up. So mask goes on until I'm past the doors and it comes off again.
It's like this in other places outside of the US, too, such as California and Oregon.
These people all need to be punched in the face. They have no adversity in their lives and are so desperate to experience some that they've latched onto this Covid bullshit as their one singular opportunity to have anything resembling hardship in their lives because deep down they know they need genuine strife in order to grow as person, even though they won't.
They feel weak and powerless and they want to pull a powertrip on people while feeling righteous.
If this guy was really concerned about this he would have stayed far away from me and just reported me to management. If he really cared about masks he'd know the valve ones do even less to protect others, he'd know some people can't wear them and he'd know the bylaw which excludes exemptions. If he really cared he'd have seen the research doesn't show any evidence they work, but I digress.
If he was really scared about the virus he'd have his groceries delivered. In fact, this guy was using one of those little baskets...if he was so concerned about catching it why doesn't he wait to go to the grocery store until he really needs it?
Good job there, asking for security is a great way to get these petty tyrants to back down.
If its a woman I would just ignore her like she doesn't exist because I know nothing infuriates them more.
A guy tried to stop me from passing within 6 feet of him on the sidewalk.
Outside.
In a windstorm bad enough that he had to raise his voice to explain why he was gesticulating at me as I approached.
We have no statewide mask mandate here it is just recommended. I live in a rural area and most people don’t really give a fuck if you are wearing a mask or not.
The store I work at does “require” them.
I’m required to wear one while working or I would get fired, but most of us just half ass it, including management.
I used to get people complaining about us not actually enforcing it on the customers but they have all realized we don’t really care.
My state does have a mask mandate, and I live on the outskirts of a moderately sized city. Everywhere requires masks, and the state basically did away with exemptions, but very occasionally you find some business that just doesn't give a shit, and I love it.
It's interesting how specific types of businesses are pretty lax, and it's some of the ones you'd expect. The more rural feeling feed stores don't care, for example. The other day I went into a gun store; there was a 'mask required' sign on the door, but inside it was just a bunch of big guys with big beards, and not a single mask. It was great.
If he's so worried about his wife, maybe he should ask the nurses to stop twerking on TikTok before ignoring his wife to go pretend to care about the
fluCovid patients they have.If he's white, you should have told him that she needed to die to 'level the playing field', since she's too old and white to deserve a vaccine. Just as the CDC suggested.
The logic behind the masks is to prevent doplets from you going to other people. The masks genuinely aren't about protecting you. Even professional full gas masks tend to have a simple exhale valve with no filter, so you're probably right about that.
I've had an encounter with an anti Covid-Karen: she cursed the annoying mask while shopping with her grown daughter.
Anyway, around here masks are required by law in stores. So I pretend-wear one because it's a hassle for employees otherwise. They're usually not fans of the masks either because they often wear them half-assedly or not at all behind their barriers.
We also have to wear masks outside if other people are around but fuck that. Very few people do that. If some Karen were to start complaining she'd be busy all day. Plus, people around here are more passive aggressive than anything. At most they'll utter something while passing you and that's the end of that.
That just sounds like laws with extra steps.
AFAIK the mandates are covered by some epidemic law. Does it really matter in practice? The result is the same.
It's less steps- a law requires a bill being debated & voted on, anything higher than municipal usually involves them going thru committees & often with hearing from witnesses.
These are executive orders, you write a "bill" (step 1 in an actual law) and boom you're done.
Yeah, they recently did that where I live, too. I have noticed a bit of an uptick in outdoor mask use, but most people still don't care. I certainly don't, and won't, wear a mask outdoors. Especially while biking or running, or something; I really, really don't get those people. What sort of a moron do you have to be to run in a mask?
I think we're also officially under mandates regarding how many people anyone can have in their own homes. The government is a fucking joke.
Hell, the state itself has official advice on how to wear masks outside when it's raining...
Banff, Alberta did that too but just for a section of downtown. I never wore it there without anyone saying anything.
Not jabbing at you because this is based very much on some weirdness with me, but pulling it below my nose makes me feel like even more of a faggot than wearing it normally (which is saying something because it definitely makes me feel like a cuck). Like I really am just putting the cloth on my face because they told me, I'm fully accepting that it's dumb but doing it anyway, I should just not be a beta and not wear it at all.
I had pretty good allergies for a good couple months. I accidentally sneezed near some people in, like, May (when there was genuine suspicion for concern)... they just seemed to veer off in every other direction.
Why don't you wear it over your nose? If it transmits by particulate, wouldn't it still transmit in that case?
Ah. That makes a ton of sense.