My hometown is as deep blue as it comes and masking is still the norm. Most stores still require it and you STILL see people in cars alone, walking down the street, even jogging(!) wearing masks. I never wore masks outside and regularly got dirty looks from maskers while hiking or walking down the street.
I'm on vacation now to a red area and it's such a relief to be gone from that. I didn't even realize how oppressive the constant masking is. I took my kid to a playground yesterday that must have had 50-60 people (kids and adults) and not a single mask in sight. My kid was nervous at first (he's had to mask at school for 8 hours a day), and now he can't shut up about how great it is not to wear masks.
It's wonderful.
Get your kid out of that school. He'd be better off if you dropped him off alone in a junkyard for 8 hours a day.
I cannot believe these weak bitches’ excuses for why they are masking their kids. Op posting like he awake but he is herd bound. Muh kid’s schoool in shit.
Meh, untwist your panties. I mask when a store or business owner asks. It's their property; I want people to respect the rules of my business, seems fair to do the same in return.
My state has a statewide school mask mandate. Even with my kid in a charter school, the rule applies. The alternative offered by the school is staying virtual. I'd rather have in-person with a mask than more virtual. I argued against the rule, more parents argued for it. The maskers won.
You say you want people to respect the rules of a business and it seems fair to do the same in return, yet you don’t expect them to respect you!? You have always had the choice, own it, never put one on again, and stop making your child wear one. The maskers don’t win, they are the type of people who just keep taking and taking more and more, insatiable. You can make each outing a battle and win. It inspires people around you, I know for a fact from experience. You just need to take back what is yours, it’s simple.
I live in Michigan I do not wear a mask ever. Secondly, my kids never wear masks ever. It’s not good for them. Period. Do what you want. But you are still wrong.
I like the school. I won't say it's not woke, but it's substantially less woken than other private and public schools in the area. It's a charter school.
About 1/3 to 1/2 of all families didn't send their kids back to school (staying virtual) back in March, because they were so concerned about the risk of covid.
Mask mandate is generally popular in my area. Sucks.
American schools don't teach much, and what little they do teach is wrong. Don't be surprised when your kid becomes a mentally stunted progressive.
If people actually had the balls these kids would have been maskless last year. Herd sour.
Mandatory, state-wide.
The state has statewide school mask mandate. The county and city (including elected sheriff) are solid blue. A minority (~1/3) of school parents kept their kids home rather than risk going to school even masked, and at least one teacher quit rather than return from virtual teaching. I would estimate a solid majority of parents are pro-masking.
In the face of all that, what's the point of using my kid to pick a fight? I don't see any positive outcomes. I argued against requiring the kids to mask, and I (and others who agreed) lost.
Heh, for some reason your analogy reminded me. Amongst some of the old timer beekeepers, I've heard it's a tradition to every spring go around to a few of your hives and give them a few bangs with your first. This pisses the bees off, they come out rearing for a fight, and sting. The theory being you're getting the bees used to a human coming around again, and you're getting your body acclimated to being stung again.
The oldtimers are tough.
That's easier said than done. The alternative for my kid was very clear--mask or you're not allowed in the building. So...mask and get in-person school or fight the good fight and stay at home.
The school performed temperature checks every morning before allowing students in. That's yet another anti-science practice. State Department of Health and CDC both recommend AGAINST temperature checks for kids because they just don't work at all. Most of the time covid doesn't cause a fever in kids (false negatives) and most of the time when kids have fevers it's not covid (false positives).
It's security theater. I get it. I still don't see any positive outcome from attempting to force the issue though my elementary age kid
The trick is to just not mask up unless they hassle you and also look like someone who might escalate to violence if provoked. I've gone without a mask for pretty much this whole time despite being deep in enemy territory.
All I say is, "I've had COVID, and am immune."
I live like a hermit, so I go out rarely. When I do, I don't wear a mask.
Living in a blue state but red area means I always have a mask ready, but not on. Right now, the big thing is how much the eateries in our town don't have enough workers to serve in their diner. We went to a popular local place, and had to go through the drive through for the first time ever.
I've noticed so much understaffing at places. I tried to grab a drink at a Sonic last week and it was closed to drive thru window only as they didn't have staff to carry food to cars. Also went to a pizza place and they had absolutely zero waitstaff and a sign on the door saying they were hiring anyone willing to actually work.
Not been quite as bad in my immediate area, but I've noticed a lot of high school kids in most of these jobs. Great jobs for them. Yeah, they trip over themselves at times, but at least trying and not grumpy old turds like who they replaced.
I have noticed the creeping inflation. Price changes and less quality. Our favorite restaurant upped the ribeye by $4. Replaced burger meat with the premade frozen ones.
Haven't quite noticed on food yet, but I'm not the best price watcher anyway. Still going from $10 to $12 is 20% inflation. Might not notice at once, but over the course of a month it is for sure.
I have noticed this too. Burger King had a 2 for $5 deal for Whoppers or chicken sandwiches for a long time, and that is most definitely gone.
That's true. A lot of the folks who think they can get a better paying job, or are better off on unemployment are making it so more desirous workers show up.
Now I want some Sonic.
I always at least tried to avoid it. I wasn't willing most times to be an ass about it to some kid working at a grocery store, and sometimes didn't want the hassle, so I would wear one.
I haven't even thought about it since their CDC dropped it. The crazies won't say shit about it. If they do I'm fully prepared to ask them why they are a science denier. After all, the religion of science says to get vaccinated and take off the mask, so why aren't they following their god?
It must really be awful in a deep blue place though. In mixed-politics part of Texas surburbia I haven't seen a kid at a playground with a mask since about May 2020. Excluding the school recess of course where they have to, I mean their voluntary fun time. Particularly outside, no one around here ever gave a shit. My neighborhood is pretty active with kids playing, adults walking dogs, bicycles, etc., and at the absolute highest point I'd say it was about 10% mask compliance when doing stuff outside.
My neighbors haven't let their kids play with any other kids in the neighborhood since the beginning. Another down the street only let their middle and highschool aged kids out once they were vaccinated last month.
The vast majority have let the kids run wild over the last year, thankfully.
People are still wearing masks? The governor of my almost solid blue state lifted mask mandate several weeks back and the county followed suit within a week. The only place I've been to that is still requiring masks is a 7/11 by where I work and I'm not sure if they're actually still requiring it or if they forgot to take the sign down.
Old family friend and i mean old in the how long we've known him/actual age was in town last night and we went out to eat and god damn it felt amazing walking in there without a mask, no retarded mandate, nothing.
And then watching people sitting at tables with masks on their hands to eat
Christ, i went to grab pizza for the family the other night and put one on out of habit and noticed the booths were open and some of the employees weren't wearing them and i felt like a jackass.