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.
That is passive aggressive not only toward the business but toward the employees. If you believe in your cause, you should be willing to pay the price for that cause. The cause is freedom from masks. You're proving nothing by wearing masks and saying you're protesting but actually being submissive in your passive aggressive actions. Take off the mask. Shop in groups. Make them make the decision not to serve you. Then your passive aggressive action gives them a few alternatives: 1) don't cash you out and have to do with the food whatever they have to do; 2) cash you out and thus meet your demands and empower others who may be hiding behind the submissive mask to do the same thing; or 3) they may call the police. There isn't a law that says one must wear a mask, and check your state. Most state laws, but maybe not all, require one trespass warning before you are charged with misdemeanor trespassing. Just keep sending new people. Let the maskless movement grow. Let them know you won't back down. Keep adding newcomers. I live in Florida, and I Thank God for that fact every day, but we are still dealing with some pockets of submissive militants who demand masks. We just ignore them. I have the joyful freedom of going out to breakfast to our favorite diner where inside, people sit without masks, the waitresses are maskless, and you would never know COVID existed if you didn't walk outside of there establishment.