I'm in Washington state, and I do a bit of reselling. So I go to thrift shops and such. Tonight at goodwill I was approached by the manager and told that I'm required to wear a mask if I want to shop here. I said "Are you asking me to leave?" She told me that if I was going to be quick I could finish, but started going on about how it's been a year and a half and that everyone should know by now. I said I know its been a year and a half and we're done with the games. I told her no one else has said anything to us anywhere else. She again started going on about how that's because they're bigger stores (not true) and they're a smaller store so it's easier for them to notice, losing patience in her voice. So I told her Im not going to argue with her and turned around and ended up just buying the few things I'd picked up and we left.
I know I shouldn't have given them money, but its my own livelihood at stake as well if I'm forfeiting over profits to protest their store.
Other than that, does anyone have any additional advice on how I should handle situations like this going forward? I'm sick to my stomach. Getting told to leave a store for not complying with tyranny. In the United States of America. Genuinely feel bad right now. I feel anger and sadness.
Fuck them all. An ad in the paper for people to donate to you would be cheaper.
My animals were denied service at the vet because I would not wear a mask inside. I protested peacefully and sat down in the waiting room and told them they could call the police on me because I was not leaving. I did not intend to make a big scene just prove a point that a business which I have been a customer at for 10 years would rather call the police on me then see me without a mask on.
I am not leaving my animals in the care of anyone without my supervision. If they were willing to shoot up children with a covid vaccine and pretend it's a flu shot, what are they willing to give our animals?
I pay them $1700 a year for a service I barely use. I canceled. Fuck them. Fuck them all. I told every single one of them they should be ashamed of themselves for submitting to tyranny. I went on an uninterrupted rant and said no one is dying from covid they are dying from not being treated with...." listed everything that helps & then I also told them about patients being ignored & then put on remdesivir. Then I went into a rant about remdesivir & it's history. Then I sat down.
Did I look crazy to them? Yes I am sure. But I stood my ground firmly for the truth. If just one of those employees listened and searched maybe 10 more people will wake up.
The kicker about the whole situation? One girl actually came from the back room to come out and yell at me and she did not have a mask on. Which tells me that all the employees sit in the back room without a mask on all day and only wear them in front of customers. Which is obviously further bullshit. I refuse to play their bullshit game.
Of course when I get home I research VCA Vets. They are based in Los Angeles and owned by the MARS Corp. Their leftism tyranny is not surprising to me now.