I held out my hand and said "here's a handful of fucks I have to give for the common cold."
He looked a me with puzzled face so I explained to him the truth giving him a small dose of red pill.
I also came to the collusion this weekend that people are scared to take off the mask.for fear of what other people think. I, however, walk into a store deep behind enemy lines with zero fucks and people look back with admiration for my courage.
We can reach this people, don't give up!!!
In the past week I've gone into four restaurants, 2 still had mask signs but the staff inside didn't even give me a dirty look nor did I notice even an aside glance from other customers. The 4th restaurant we even ran into several patrons exiting without masks and saw more coming in but nobody tried to turn them away either despite the sign at the door.
The Meijer by us still has a sign but at the bottom it says "unless fully vaccinated" but 1) it doesn't actually say COVID vaccine nor is anyone at the door trying to gatekeep. We were in the store for a while before we started running into other people without masks so who knows how many people simply don't read the new text on the sign vs refuse to take their muzzle off.
We also still had nonsense at my office building with "1-way" doors which signs I've always ignored, I've noticed more people starting to do the same after observing me doing it so yeah there are a lot of sheep out there who are fatigued but still too scared to be the first one seen breaking the rules, just like how you'll have a bunch of cars on the highway following one speeder but if that car exits the highway suddenly most of them will slow back down to the speed limit.