Just going to share a quick story. I'm not a leader, I'm definitely a follower. When I have had to lead, I've done the job well enough, be it at projects for work or otherwise. However, I would rather be a good worker bee than the queen so to speak.
That said, I tend not to be confrontational. I've still been wearing my masks despite the mandates in Texas. I went into an Albertsons, wearing my mask. and I saw two older gentlemen in their 50's. Neither of them where wearing their chin diapers, and they both had an air of strength and power, as in do not approach us about fucking masks. It inspired me.
I immediately took mine off. Nobody said anything.
Today, I went to the same Albertsons, this time without my mask completely. Nobody said anything once again. Then another man looked at me while wearing a mask himself as I walked past him.
When I checked out, I saw him again, this time without the mask.
The point is this: there are a lot of folks like me out there who aren't the leaders, or necessarily the ones who will pull the trigger. That is NOT a bad thing. We all can't be leading the charge. However we WANT to do the right thing. It just takes a spark to push people like me to act. If you know you are an alpha leader type, remember that next time you enter a store, and pull off your mask.
Thanks for this post. Much appreciated! I live in a small town in Texas, and we were intimidated for the first few weeks of the whole "Covid Gonna Kill Us All" fad. Once we finally realized it was a hoax, and the mask was just a political gimmick, we stopped participating in the covid worship. Most of the people in my little town played by the rules for about a month or so, and then realized we were being hoodwinked, and we just go on about our business. There are signs all over the place saying masks required, but nobody cares. We just live our lives. A few still wear them, and on the weekends, when the tourists come through, they wear their masks into the little shops downtown and then breath a sigh of relief when they realize we dont require them here. We seem to have more tourism these days because the big city folk like to breathe freely too.