“Yesterday, we were finally able to go into a grocery store without having to wear these idiotic masks”
I am in WA state also and have never worn a mask in a grocery store.
Then you likely do not live in the Seattle/Tacoma metropolitan area. There has basically been 100% compliance where we are at... until yesterday I had not seen one person in the stores that we shop at without a mask for months. When we tried we were handed masks by employees and told them to wear them or get out.
We have received around 60 “free” masks this way.