“The maskerade is sheer lunacy, but people continue play the stupid game, particularly those under 30 or 40.”
What people? Do you mean business owners who don’t want to get the s*** find out of them?
Are people really fighting The Masks or are they fighting for the mom-and-pop businesses owners who lose everything if hefty fines are imposed for non-compliance of mask mandates within their premises.
If lawsuits are inevitable and business owners start going into court... business owners will start taking the people who were not masked up in their stores to court... and if that starts to happen those people who are taken into a hostile court better hope they have some liability insurance cuz it will get expensive.
All the sheeple walking on the streets, riding bikes by themselves, riding in cars by themselves, hiking trails by themselves.
One of our local grocery stores (local family owned) got fined last year because a bunch of their employees caught it. The local health people claimed their break room wasn’t safe enough. The funny thing is the store had put in place the toughest standards anywhere around here — people wiping down all the carts after use, long line to get into the store, limited number of shoppers, one-way aisles, people forcing you to get hand-spritz before you enter, masks, one line for people waiting to check out, huge plexiglas screens between checker lanes, etc, etc. With all these customer precautions, it’s hard to believe that their EMPLOYEEs became a cluster. So the health gestapo decided to make an example out of them. Fortunately, the fine wasn’t huge (I think $15,000), but, given the low margins in groceries, it was probably a big chunk of their profits.
I pity the business owners who get screwed by this.