Although some states are rescinding their mask mandates, many stores are NOT. FRUSTRATING! But recent stories on OSHA medical waste disposal rules (not being followed!) and buildups of mask waste in oceans gave me an idea. The stores don't care that they inconvenience us/risk our health with mask rules. They are virtue signaling. What can we do?
We can make life more difficult for them BECAUSE of the masks. I wear the disposable medical kind. I have a ton of used ones. (I do re-use them, but I still have dozens, seems like all over my car and house)
How about each time we go to the store we are sure to LEAVE BEHIND a mask. On the floor. On a grocery shelf. On the produce in the vegetable aisle. (ewwww!) In other words, make it so that the store managers want the masks gone as badly as WE do. Because suddenly it's inconveniencing THEM.
We can later escalate to leaving them hanging off things. All over the place. Used ones!
They want masks? We give them MASKS. Used ones. In all the spots they don't want to see them.
Let's take back our stores!
This has been the strategy I've used up to this point at stores requiring masks, which is still most of them. Mask on, down around my chin. Wear it that way unless/until 1) somebody says something, or 2) I see an old person, because honestly I don't want to make the old people anxious. After I pass them by, mask comes down again.
So far no one has bothered chasing me around the store. I do put it back up for checkout.
Interesting location where NO employees were wearing masks: The local sheriff's office! I was in for a fingerprinting thing, and that really surprised me.