Fri someone thanked us for not wearing masks when we were at the store.
Same store 2 days later, someone with NO MASK approached us and thanked us for not wearing a mask.. No mask on this person. AND invited us to a community group focused on resuming normalcy.
AND yet another person in the store not wearing a mask.
For almost a year we have been the only naked faced ppl in that store.
Nice to see an honest person out there who isn’t giving in to the “ Oh it’s only a mask ?“ crowd... I was at a convenience store this morning getting coffee, no mask, standing right next to a MN Highway Patrol officer, also no mask... watched some idiot next to me trying to use a donut tissue to open the donut door, I reached over and held the door open for him and said here let me help you, He literally looked at me with fear in his eyes, I didn’t know if he was going to scream or wet himself. After one year of this bullshit people are still locked in fear...
Yeah pretty amazing a year later...
I am forever fortunately to live in FL where the mask shit is minimal. Our governor made sure it would be illegal for any city or county to fine someone for not wearing a mask, basically making mask mandates utterly useless.
We do have to deal with stores requiring masks because they are private property and have the legal right to refuse service. Like I was saying earlier though, if a store wanted to refuse service to me then I can refuse to spend a dollar ever again at that store.
Even here in FL, in Tampa there are people filled with fear. My wife and I have never and never will wear the masks. Sometimes we'll be down an aisle in a store and sometimes I notice someone start to go down that aisle but see us maskless and the person immediately backs up and goes down a different aisle.
These people living in such fear over a virus with something like a 99.9% survival rate are truly a lost cause. People can say oh let's wake them up, they just need to wake up. I say no, fuck that and fuck them. If anyone is dumb enough to think they'll die from being near another human right now is literally mentally beyond our help.
Seasonal flu is worse than covid and seasonal flu can lead to pneumonia which is what kills. It's no surprise that season flu suddenly vanished and was replaced by covid for statistics but then we have everyone that dies magically died of covid. I saw a news article before where a guy fell off his roof, died, and it was called covid death.
The covid tests are designed drum up fake numbers to induce panic and fear. Most people that are that fearful are probably the city dwellers that in some ways are subhuman. I mean subhuman as in they don't enjoy this wonderful planet we live on. They live in giant concrete jungles but without the trees of a real jungle.
I've only been in Tampa about 1 1/2 years and never intended for it to be permanent, just to get me out of north FL for better weather. I walk several miles every day, around parks, enjoying nature, I even walk to stores instead of driving my car because I love the outdoors and nature and wildlife.
Sometimes sitting outside, I've had a lizard crawl on me, doesn't bother me. With me being an outdoors person, it helps me to maintain a really strong immune system so things like covid or even flu do not matter to me. I'm 42 and have had the flu just once and even then I can't say for certain it was flu because I didn't see a doctor and didn't even miss any work. I sure felt extremely bad though with fever etc but the immune system handles things.
People need to stop living in fear, stop being afraid of things. Sometimes I feed gators, I even have videos of me feeding them and turtles and birds and squirrels etc. I'll be standing and sitting just fear away from gators sometimes at a park here but they never bother anyone. They just chill out in the water and pretty much don't care if people are looking at them.
Of course if I tried to touch one they might get me because they'd feel threatened but really you can be within a few feet of one and all is fine as long as you don't bother it. People need to live life but as I said before, those concrete jungles. You have millions of people choosing to live in apartments, basically little boxes inside a big box, all on top of each other.
There's always options to have a home with a yard but I do understand not everyone cares about a yard and some don't want a yard. Staying indoors all the time, wearing masks aka face diapers, being so afraid of the world we live in is just no way to live.
I'm not as bold as you (also in FL). I wear my mask under my chin. (in other words, it isn't on my face) Go into stores, shop peacefully. If someone comes after me about the mask I'll pull it up. Briefly. Then it comes down again 30 seconds later. No one has the energy to chase me around the store.
BTW check out Mazzaro's Italian Market in St. Pete. You won't be sorry! Great place to grab a lunch and check out all the goodies.