You (purposely?) left out the part about Corporate Walmart policy that does not require the mask.
Why?
I linked the article. But if you persist...
Walmart is a leader in hiring employees from vulnerable classes - the handicapped, the infirm, the pregnant, the immuno-compromised, the elderly. In a ‘polite society,’ patrons are socially obligated to show the same courtesy towards WalMart employees and their policies to protect their employees as they show us by showing up to work in the first place. And then there’s the yoot class, who feel employees are beneath them and policies are for squares.
WalMart is too big an operation to physically bar entry like a mom and pop shop can and do. Grandpa Greeter sure isn’t about to risk his health being attacked by mental midget yoots who think they are ‘special’. At the same time, WalMart has a legal duty to try to protect their employees and their patrons; shoppers and employees want to feel safe. And so, policy.
Asking politely to be excused, even with the flimsiest reason as to why someone can’t possibly wear a kerchief for 30 minutes (which doesn’t restrict breathing at all btw) most likely will result in an equally polite, ‘ok’. For real, how long are you going to be in the store? Being passive-aggressive isn’t interpreted as friendly and it’s not going to earn you a lot of smiles from staff or customers who may feel threatened, unsafe and disrespected.
As for granny, yup, she had a mental break. That’s indisputable. But because we read ‘karen’ all compassion and concern as to what ‘triggered’ wyt girl to respond that way, what was said before the video started, goes out the window. Has she lost someone? Have a parent trapped in a nursing home? Or hospital? Is she afraid of dying? Is it her first time in public in 4 months? Doesn’t matter - she’s a ‘karen’ so she’s just a mean witch, right? And it’s such a good distraction from the passive-aggressiveness of the yoots.
It’s too bad mom and son and granny couldn’t get together for a beer summit, apologize to each other, understand each other and move on. Although, ironically, mom might have set her son up. How will the football team react to a mommy’s boy who’s afraid of grannies? In the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of a vulnerable worker population, there are much better swords to fall on than one’s own ego.