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On Friday, my blue state Democrat governor mandated masks for all indoor businesses and government buildings. He said law enforcement wouldn't be involved against customers, but the health department would penalize businesses that didn't comply and didn't force customers to comply.
I live in a conservative area of the state. Out of 250,000 in our metro area, we have 339 (alleged) COVID-19 cases and 23 deaths, (more than half from a single nursing home), relatively few on both counts. I was interested in seeing how businesses and patrons would handle the edict, particularly the big boxes. Note, as announced Thursday, I refused to wear a mask at any time and was prepared to be confronted when I entered a store, especially a national chain. Here are the results:
1. Convenience stores: I went in about five of them. Perhaps 1 in 10 customers were wearing masks, and in only one of the stores were the clerks wearing one.
2. Tobacco shops: I went into two of them. Not a soul had a mask on. Not a customer, not an employee
3. Kroger: The employees were wearing them, about half the customers were. Nobody was being forced to.
4. Lowe's: I went in there about an hour before closing. About a third of the customers were wearing. About half the employees were.
5. Walmart: They had a sign posted that the law requires masks. All the employees were wearing, Again, about half the customers were. I asked an employee if the store was forcing people to wear masked. The guy said "They want employees to, but they aren't saying anything to customers".
So there you have it. People in my city DON'T have the virus, and for the most part they are SNUBBING our Communist governor's edict, as are businesses. I don't know if jackbooted thug state health dept officials will descend on the businesses or not. But nothing is happening as yet. I needn't have braced for confrontation. Nobody cared if I wore a mask or not.
I've contended numerous times this virus hype is a total fraud, a political charade by the left. My hunch is being confirmed by the total media switch to the fake Soros-financed riots. These paid-for highly orchestrated phony protests have swept virus news off the front pages. Had the virus threat been real, it would have been all hands on deck. The media would have joined with the president in getting us through this. But it was a political stunt from the start. It's starting to fail, and now it's onto the next "huge story that's finally going to bring down Trump". Both stories are as fake as three-dollar bills with Hillary's picture on them.
I live in a conservative area of the state. Out of 250,000 in our metro area, we have 339 (alleged) COVID-19 cases and 23 deaths, (more than half from a single nursing home), relatively few on both counts. I was interested in seeing how businesses and patrons would handle the edict, particularly the big boxes. Note, as announced Thursday, I refused to wear a mask at any time and was prepared to be confronted when I entered a store, especially a national chain. Here are the results:
1. Convenience stores: I went in about five of them. Perhaps 1 in 10 customers were wearing masks, and in only one of the stores were the clerks wearing one.
2. Tobacco shops: I went into two of them. Not a soul had a mask on. Not a customer, not an employee
3. Kroger: The employees were wearing them, about half the customers were. Nobody was being forced to.
4. Lowe's: I went in there about an hour before closing. About a third of the customers were wearing. About half the employees were.
5. Walmart: They had a sign posted that the law requires masks. All the employees were wearing, Again, about half the customers were. I asked an employee if the store was forcing people to wear masked. The guy said "They want employees to, but they aren't saying anything to customers".
So there you have it. People in my city DON'T have the virus, and for the most part they are SNUBBING our Communist governor's edict, as are businesses. I don't know if jackbooted thug state health dept officials will descend on the businesses or not. But nothing is happening as yet. I needn't have braced for confrontation. Nobody cared if I wore a mask or not.
I've contended numerous times this virus hype is a total fraud, a political charade by the left. My hunch is being confirmed by the total media switch to the fake Soros-financed riots. These paid-for highly orchestrated phony protests have swept virus news off the front pages. Had the virus threat been real, it would have been all hands on deck. The media would have joined with the president in getting us through this. But it was a political stunt from the start. It's starting to fail, and now it's onto the next "huge story that's finally going to bring down Trump". Both stories are as fake as three-dollar bills with Hillary's picture on them.
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