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Give them friendly, courteous and disarming. Folks today were quick to reciprocate. Everyone you smile at is one more small crack in the farce.
I caught one lady smiling back under her mask and I said to her, "I saw that..!" She looked at me and I told her that there was a pretty smile under that mask. She liked! I got an enthusiastic "Thank you."
These are the things that will fix this mess. I hope.
Thank you for reading.
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I had a woman stop me as I entered a store - giving me a heads up "they really enforce masks here".
I said "People with a tiny bit power show their hearts, don't they? We have been lied to and I'm not falling for it anymore."
I passed her later - her mask was under her chin. I gave her a thumbs up.
No one approached me about masks - I had been asked to leave this store in the past for not accepting the mask they were handing me.