I just got back from a grocery trip to H-E-B. Since I live in Austin, it's the only place that I can still go to shop without a mask. I used to do all of my shopping at Sprouts, since it's closest to my house, but then they started having employees chase me down to give me a mask to wear, else I be kicked from the store.

If the salty faggots on the Austin subreddit are to be believed, then the reason that H-E-B doesn't enforce their stated mask policy is because they had some incidents of customers becoming violent when confronted to put on a mask. So it became store policy to ignore maskless individuals as a matter of team safety or something.

I have never once been forced to defend or justify my choice to not wear a mask inside H-E-B. Some of the employees are even still quite helpful. And so I say, THANK YOU to the warriors of freedom who came before me, for allowing me to live my life in peace.