Posted on 04/18/2020 8:21:02 AM PDT by 7thson
I thought I would share what recently happened to me. About 10 days ago, I come out of a liquor store and in the parking lot I met an individual I have not seen for about 10 years. He was not wearing a mask but was wearing the surgical gloves. We talked a little, caught up on our families. As we parted I said I was going to go out as much as I can. He said he was going to huddle at home. I replied, "Not me. I'm a citizen, not a subject." Then we parted ways.
Today my brother went to the Giant - we live in Maryland - without a mask on. He was immediately harassed by employees and customers, and even cursed at by customers. His reply to them was "I'm a citizen, not a subject."
I tell these two tales because I think we should reply to these socialists and sheep with "I'm a citizen, not a subject." Also, I am going to try to get a dusk mask and write on it in red ink "THIS IS THE FACE OF SOCIALISM." I think if we not only challenge the socialist sheep but also ridicule them, it would hurry up the reopening.
Of course you are a citizen and not a subject, but this situation is unprecedented. This scourge has been publically known for only 3.5 months. We still don’t know a lot about it. There seems to be a lot of organ damage in survivors. If what you do only affected you, I’d say it is none of my business, but what you do DOES affect me, my 85 y/o parents, my <3 y/o grandkids and my sons and friends. No one is trying to subjugate you. Picking this hill to die on is only going to kill others too.
No you wouldn’t.
Not if you participate in the free market.
You would be polite to your customers.
Gaslight me into what? Standing up for the rights of a property owner?
Yes. Certainly there are places where a mask is, well, essential during this time: visiting or caring for a sick or the elderly (hell, I qualify as one of them though I’m very healthy and remain “just a young man with a dream”—thanks, Dennis Miller), being in tight, densely-packed enclosed spaces (bus; subway; etc.) ... but not outside walking your dog at midnight ... or in a park or at the beach where it’s easy to maintain the 2-yard “anti-social” distancing criterion. Cheers! & sincere wishes for continued good health to you. GA
Uh — whut?
I know. I'm the subject of flubro conversations. They talk about me like I'm hellspawn.
Agreed....but you live in a society where half the populace are lemmings who never learned to think for themselves- or develop the courage to stand up for what they should..... That America, that freedom worth dying for.... is vanishing fast....
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For those who defer to someone else, their conditioners await them......
I agree with you. In fact, my state is supposedly going to be under a “facemasks in all business establishments” edict tomorrow. If that’s true, then my next grocery shopping trip will be to a store 70+ miles away in the next state.
Name the statute these people were breaking...
“He was immediately harassed by employees and customers, and even cursed at by customers.”
You don’t have to break a statute to be inconsiderate of other people or a jerk.
Hmmm, why am I thinking that "The Village" has been expanded, Number Six? Time to watch again!
I’d be perfectly OK with that.
Business can make their own rules.
If I don’t like their rules, I don’t do business with them.
It’s a free country.
The situation is NOT unprecedented.
We’ve had epidemics before. Far, far worse epidemics.
But we’ve never committed national suicide before in response to one.
The hysterical response is unprecedented, not the WuFlu,
Technically you're free to be a jerk in our country but I'm not sure I'd celebrate it.
‘You’re an idiot subject citizen.’
you’ve already opined, many times, that everyone that thinks a little differently from you is an idiot...getting tiresome...
True. I’d be more polite about it, but the customer would be out the door. As an employee, my first obligation is to my EMPLOYER, not the customer.
Typhoid Mewzilla, my parents and grandchildren thank you.
Thought so,. A man of conviction.
I would note that the poster never said he/she wouldn’t leave either, just that his personal freedom allows him to reject the mask. And I think we all agree, that while it might limit the retailers he can visit, it is well within his rights.
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