These people are heroes, straight up. I watched the whole vid last night -- this is a Trader Joe's in Santa Cruz, CA. Talk about going into the BELLY OF THE BEAST to do this. They'd shoot you for going maskless, there.... if only they had any guns. :D

A lot of people state, rightly, that "just go maskless" is an easy thing to say when you're not living in a blue shithole. And that's true. The mask-wearers are a genuine religious cult. Their efforts to shame and other-ize the sight of a human face is monstrous and inhuman. The psychological pressure to conform is overwhelming, and in many places, as seen here, you're even physically threatened for going maskless. I DON'T obey the mask orders, and I do live in a place with one and have traveled to bluer cities since this started and defied them there, with various degrees of pushback -- but never have I tried it in a place as full-on Stalinist in Santa Cruz. These people have MAJOR balls.

Yeah, "just go maskless" is a flippant and easy thing to say. But it's also the ONLY way any of this madness is ever going to stop. It's going to take a critical mass of people telling these fascists cities and states NO, screw YOU, we will not comply. It starts with each one of us. That's why my hat's off to the magnificent guys and gals in this video -- THESE are some serious patriots.