I wanted to rewrite this post because my last one had a lot of on-the-fly edits and I think I can make this cleaner.
Here's what we should do:
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Find people in your neighborhood/community who are sick of masks and want a change and invite them to participate. Start a facebook group or get people on a massive text chain or something like that.
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Decide the dates and times you plan to do this. Get people to go in groups of at least 15, the bigger the better. That's disruptive, and frankly, people can go in all day in different shifts and keep it going.
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Decide on the grocery store you wish to target.
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Go in with masks on, grab a cart, and grab all the perishable goods (meat, cheese, milk, eggs, etc.) along with a few other things to make replacing things more time consuming.
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Place your list with the demands on the top of the cart filled with items (it will say "replace your 'masks required signs' with a 'we support your constitutional rights--no masks required' signs and then these actions will stop.")
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Walk your cart to the front of the store.
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Leave it there and go home.
This way we:
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Avoid physical confrontations
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Avoid being identified so we can be charged with trespassing, etc.
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Create real disruption for these business owners forcing them to change.
I saw a post earlier here about a lady who had a medical exemption from wearing a mask and still got asked to leave. She asked the manager if it was store policy not to honor medical exemptions for masks and she said yes. The lady sent an email to corporate to confirm if that was the policy and corporate said NO, and they WOULD honor her exemption and they will be sending an email to all managers reminding them of the ACTUAL policy. I live in FL so have never worn a mask in the grocery store, and I think your idea is on the right track, but maybe a different spin on it would be to get a based doctor to issue mask exemptions to you and all the people in your group and go in all at the same time armed with the exemptions. Just a thought...
We don't want to have to show our "medical exemption" to store employees to buy milk and eggs. We shouldn't have to do that. it's time to fuck with the system.