On Friday, the statewide indoor mask mandate was lifted (DE). Of course I don’t wear a mask anywhere, except in the conference room at the office where it’s easier to just wear it and shut up than start a fight.

But Friday, the statewide mandate was lifted. In celebration, I didn’t wear a mask at all, all day. In meetings in the conference room, walking around the office, nowhere.

Towards the end of the day, a mandate-loving, thrice-vaxxed coworker got up from her desk and began walking out of the office when she stopped and said “ugh, look at me, walking around without a mask like there isn’t a pandemic going on.”

I happened to be walking by, when she turned to a coworker and said “look at Magaman1776 walking around like there isn’t a pandemic going on.”

I passively said, “oh, they lifted the mandate today.”

“In the office?” She replied sarcastically (technically, there was a mandate in the public spaces of the office and technically it hadn’t been lifted by our bosses, but fuck all that noise).

“In the state.” I said. She rolled her eyes and walked away, masked. Not before she could clearly see my shit eating grin.