I'm old enough to remember the fabric, before OJ, that was notorious! 
People want the paranoia... I seen some moron just yesterday driving down the street, windows all rolled up, with his little mask on. Totally ridiculous!!
I’m done
In Tucson, most of the stores have signs up recommending masks for the unvaccinated, but a lot fewer people are wearing them. We went to my wife’s eye doctor last week, and they weren’t requiring masks at all in the office.
Just a couple of months ago, I’d usually be the only person in the grocery store without a mask.
The left isn’t letting go of the danm mask. They use the mask mandate as a way of harassing and controlling the folks.
What mask? I don’t see any mask.
I only wear mine on my weekend restaurant job as it is required unless you are vaccinated. I refuse to vaccinate. Most aren’t wearing them in my area of Alabama (basically Montgomery area).
I'm old enough to remember the fabric, before OJ, that was notorious!
Amazing how many freepers live in seemingly blue areas. Also amazing how many follow the crowd, even if the crowd are lemmings.
In the past year and a half, I’ve worn a mask three times for about 10 minutes each in stores that insisted. I haven’t been back to those stores and won’t until they drop the mask mandate. In fact I won’t be going back to Pet Smart at all. I think the cashier was a large black man but I’m not sure. It could have been a black woman acting like a feminine black man.
Mask usage among others had been anywhere from 30% to 70% and it seemed to depend on the store I went to with walmart being the 70% at one time. There was always those of us who didn’t wear them and no one said a word about it.
Last summer, mask usage dropped off big time. Last fall, the kids went back to school mask free, no distancing.
We used this crazy technique called observation. We observed that people weren’t dropping dead en masse and that very few were getting this highly contagious virus and when they did, as long as they didn’t already have on foot in the grave, they would get over it pretty quick.
We observed that the msm was blowing things out of proportion and that just like the 5 prior years, were lying to us and trying to create a narrative more than anything.
We’re currently on vacation in SE Florida. We’ve seen a few idiots walking down the street alone with their masks on, and a woman wearing her mask and gloves while picking up food at the Taco Bell drive thru. There’s signage on the door at stores, but no one is enforcing mask usage. We haven’t worn one since we’ve been here, nor have we been asked to.
If the author of this piece can’t recognize why it WAS/IS big deal, he really shouldn’t be opining about much. If he can’t recognize the danger in the government using absolute distortions and propaganda to control almost every aspect of our lives, he’s a fool, an idiot, or both.
“ Yet even now, there are far fewer objections to wearing a mask than to getting inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccines, despite the fact that the latter has been determined virtually fool-proof and the former just about useless.”
Hardly fool-proof. More have died from China virus vaccines than from all other vaccines combined over the last 30 years. They advertise a 95% chance of surviving a virus that from which you already have a 99+% chance of recovery.
The only people still wearing masks, are the vaccinated. Think about that.
Many where I live have dumped the mask. Just stop wearing them.
Well you cannot intentionally scare the crap out of people then flick a magic switch and turn off that fear. I suspect that there are many who will NEVER feel safe without a mask again. I actually have no problem with those who want to wear it, or with businesses that require it. I understand that it’s tough to overcome fear, even if it was manufactured fear. I will patronize businesses where I don’t have to wear it, and I won’t tolerate criticism from those who want to keep wearing it, though.
we were just in Northern Ohio- hardly any masks indoors or out.
A couple of usual suspects tho.
At this point, I love masks because they are great tools to identify people I don’t want to have anything to do with.
I don't know.
How long are you?
I did not wear one except in medical situations. If you are still wearing one, the issue is with you.
Locate backbone.
Say no.
Remove mask.