Posted on 08/23/2020 6:21:22 AM PDT by NOBO2012
I chuckled at Mellow Lemoncello’s (aka Betty Ann) comment about her trip to the farmers’ market yesterday:
“I just walked around at the farmer’s market, everyone’s face plastered by masks, without one on my self. I took pictures and talked to everyone. Only one lady said, Are you protesting the masks? I said yes ma’am. Later as I left, I saw her pulling hers off.”
And I nodded in agreement at Lisa D’s reply:
“…Are they in happy compliance, like our daughter, or trying to avoid the Karens and judgemental looks? We are forced to wear them in every freakin place here except outside. With the heat my breathing in a mask is almost impossible. So today I'm giving son a few bucks to shop for me. I hate to see him with that dumb mask. Can't believe how compliant Americans have become. I literally tell the TV or radio to fek off every time I hear one of their stupid 1984 inspired messages.”
By Executive Order of Her Royal Highness Wretched Gretchen masks are mandated in Michigan for the foreseeable future wherever people are “allowed” to congregate. Naturally this includes outdoor farmers’ markets. It so happened that we too went to a local market yesterday to pick up some fresh whitefish and smoked Great Lakes salmon for a good old fashioned Mid-west fish boil. Raj’s sister hauls fish pulled from the waters around the Straits of Mackinac on Friday downstate to sell in the markets around the Detroit area on Saturday. So needless to say it is fresh, delicious, and worth the trip across town to pick it up.
Or at least it used to be. Now that people have been conditioned to automatically don masks that is no longer sufficient to virtue signal how much your local officials care about your safety. So now the good people running the Saturday market have the larger vendors barricading their produce from the riff raff (us) displayed on their tables behind orange plastic construction/snow fencing.
Yes, this
I wish I was kidding but I am not. It is there to prevent you from touching anything. So now the process of buying tomatoes consists of queuing up safely (behind your face mask) to wait your turn to point at the size, color, variety you wish to exchange for cash – which is, surprisingly, still accepted and returned to customers as (contaminated) change.
But that’s not the worst of it. The local Nazi squad has also implemented a one way only traffic flow through the market – also to “keep you safe.”
Because I guess microscopic COVID viruses only move in one direction at a time.
Oh, and they have installed a Nazi stormtrooper at the “EXIT ONLY - NO ENTRY” point on the south end. She was equipped with a counter, although it was unclear whether she was counting people coming or going. Unfortunately for her we happened to park right by her “NO ENTRY” point and the fish stand is just on the other side of this (former) entry point. So we blithely ignored her plaintiff cries of “Sir! Ma’am! You can’t go in this way!” Yet we did, and proceeded to pick up our fish, chat with Raj’s sister, point to the tomatoes and corn I bought from the vendor next door and slipped away, illegally, via the rear of the fish monger’s booth.
Had I read the new market rules/protocols before going -
Talk about a knack for sucking the joy out of life
I very likely wouldn’t have gone at all. Yes, yes, I know: we’re in the middle of a pandemic. But what about that great liberal mantra - “my body, my choice!” – or does that not apply…this time?
Wouldn’t it be great if they finally get it?
Meanwhile I will stick to our much smaller, saner little town farmers’ market on Thursdays. Life’s too short to deal with Nazis every stinkin’ day.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I can only wear a mask for at most 15 minutes straight.
I was born premature.
GretchenFuhrer comes up with new ways to oppress.
The long ago psycho phb-ette of higher education IT would gladly sign up for Michigan’s pleasure police.
I’ve never been there but always heard nice things about the state.
The farmers market near us instituted all those stupid rules.
The market is virtually dead from what I hear. I refuse to patronize them.
I have to pass less than 6 feet from an average of about 8 people when grocery shopping.
Grab and go needs to replace hem and haw.
Yea, let’s just destroy friendliness and fun in favor of being afraid of a stupid virus that has a 99.98% survival rate.
Governors and their unconstitutional totalitarian orders need to be sued and recalled.
This is America.
What’s sort of sad is how fast people have become compliant sheep over such measures. I was in the grocery store yesterday minding my own business when a women with a cart came from the other direction. She stopped and suddenly started backing up and apologizing profusely for going the “wrong way” up the new “social distancing” one way aisles. I gave her a quizzical look and said, “I wouldn’t never had known had you not told me and I certainly don’t care, in fact I don’t pay attention to the aisle signs at all, so if I just happened to go “the right way” it was purely by chance.”
My Walmart has one entrance and one way isles. Signs on the floor tell you to enter or not enter. Frankly I don’t pay any attention to it. However I was going the right way yesterday and a woman in a electric cart was coming the wrong way. I had to let her by my cart but she said, “I’m sorry. I am going the wrong way.” I replied, “Not to worry, I won’t report you.” She smiled and thanked me. I am not sure if she thought I was serious or joking.
I dont know if you are joshing or not but those like myself who have COPD, its near impossible.
I was confronted this past week by one of the Karen transplants from CA at a local store. Told the bitch to mind her own blanking business. I then explained to those around to put their masks on and run 100 yards full bore and then lay down and have someone set a cement block on their chest. Then see how easy it is to take a breath.
Wow! Insane. How are we going to stop this lunacy?
I was born premature.
I have asthma, which is made worse by allergies this time of the year. When I wear a mask within a couple minutes I have the sensation that I'm smothering. I refused to wear one at all until a few weeks ago when most of the stores in my area made them mandatory, with no exceptions even for medical reasons (they tell people with medical issues to order online and they'll bring it to your car). Now I wear one from the car to the door of the store, once I'm past the mask "gestapo" they have posted at the door I pull it down off my nose and sometimes if I'm feeling real naughty I'll pull it down to cover just my chin. I've notice many others doing the same thing. Nothing has been said thus far, though I've got a few raised eyebrows and disapproving head shakes from the busybody "Karens".
. Only one lady said, Are you protesting the masks? I said yes ma’am. Later as I left, I saw her pulling hers off.”
Many people are looking for a leader. We should be one.
What’s sort of sad is how fast people have become compliant sheep over such measures
God created us as sheep and if you have the right shepherd, it works pretty well............................
Sometimes I think I'm trapped in a nightmare in which a bunch of spinster librarians and second grade teachers have taken over the world!
Anyway, about leading. . . I had to give a presentation to a new group of teachers at our school recently. I walked into the room and everyone was sitting apart and looked like they were ready for me to throw the sheet off and start the autopsy!!
I was the only one without a mask and made it clear if they wanted to me to talk it would be on my terms. I was polite but firm. I noticed as I was ending that quite a few had removed their masks. Sheer stupidity.
As the numbers go down here in Arizona, it is getting worse instead of better. Petco had been non-invasive (they had signs. Every chain has signs.), and they suddenly had a corporate change for aggressive “enforcement”.
I called Petsmart, and I simply told them “I don’t wear a mask.” and they gave me a waiver.
I imagine the curb-side pickup was instituted for fearful people. Now it is upside down, as I am using it so I don’t have to be compelled to wear a mask for one second to do business, and I don’t have one.
I have found a few places are excellent. Waffle House is VERY cool, and the waitresses now get bigger tips (they are honoring 50% capacity). My favorite coffee shop is 100% sane, including staff, and the cop who hangs out there. One MAJOR regional convenience store/gas station chain has been uniformly decent, greeting me on entry with no commands. I only heard of a problem at one because it had a busybody security guard. When there is no guard, the cashiers cannot leave their station, so getting into it with a customer who wants to breathe AND get some Hostess orange cup cakes is an indulgence they cannot afford. The Hispanic supermarket has a man stationed by the door, but he remains mute. He is there for show. That is my personal go-to store now.
I have not had to make up a non-existent medical condition. I simply state “I don’t wear a mask.” Full-stop. I have been offered several, and state “No thank you.” I have only had one “Karen”, and old lady who came to our table at the Whataburger to “offer” a mask after I refused one at the entrance. I reminded her that SHE was the one violating social distancing, and that she should offer the mask to someone who might actually use it. She called me rude.
I am looking forward to the normal normal to return. This is tearing us apart.
It’s hard for me to breathe too. I have very small nostrils and need CPAP at night. Sometimes I use my mask that I cut a slit in. If I don’t have it with me, I lower the mask below my nose. No one says anything to me because I live in a “mind your own business” county...you know: Don’t tread on me.
We all know that music transmits Coronavirus . . .
who came to our table at the Whataburger
You are lucky. Those in my area only allow drive through now. How to take a great chain, sell it to a group out of crapcongo and watch it devolve.
We went to our farmer’s market recently in Colorado. Most but not all in masks. We had ours on as we entered, then pulled them down. One large stand had about 5 people working, none in masks. We bought more there than elsewhere, and they were doing a lot of business.
The one way thing was set up, which actually helps one see and get around easier as the streets aren’t that wide once the booths are set up. They should keep that when the masks go away. You can just duck under the rope if you want to cross or go back the other way.
I wore my Blue Lives Matter shirt, saw a non-masked couple and the lady was wearing a Back The Blue shirt. This is a pretty conservative area. No hassles or even looks over not wearing the masks.
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