I never bothered with their “rules”. Flouted all of them, all the time. Except I wore a mask UNDER my nose so idiots wouldn’t yell at me. Performative, not effective.
Refused to wear a mask. Wore a shemagh anywhere they were “mandatory” (mom was going through chemo during COVID). I got kicked out of a handful of places for “not wear a mask,” despite clearly having my face covered. It was about obedience, not practical risk mitigation.
When I absolutely had to wear a mask, as in doctors’ offices, I’d take one of those blue masks and cut out the two white layers inside. It still looked like a mask, and I could sort of breathe through it. Grocery stores, forget it. If the store employees told me I had to wear a mask, I’d just leave.
Since I have a beard, the whole masking thing was even more absurd for me.
I wore a fake "Steam Punk" gas mask.
Nobody said a word...or even cracked a smile.
“Except I wore a mask UNDER my nose so idiots wouldn’t yell at me. Performative, not effective.”
same here ... except i wore mine under my nose so i could breath ... and it seemed to satisfy the fascist orders of our governor fudge-packer well enough that all the little fascists that were forcibly enrolled to enforce his fascist edict ignored said ill-fitting mask wearing ...
when gov fudge-packer finally had enough of the economic, educational and social destruction and refused to renew his fascist order a third time, a few individual counties tried to take up the cudgel locally, but even though they issued all kinds of “thou shalt” mask edicts, and the local fake “news” media tried to perpetuate said “that shalts”, the retail corporations knew that such edicts had zero force of law without a State emergency order, so when myself and a VERY FEW other brave souls instantly stopped wearing masks all together, there were zero repercussions from retail establishments ... we tried to explain all of this to our conservative brethren, but sadly, even they were too timid to buck the illegal orders and possible social scorn ...