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.
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.