Beautifully stated! The mandates to wear masks outside is so sand-poundingly stupid and contrary to the facts (which we've known for the better part of a year) that it has become my line in the sand. Yesterday we walked around the town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, including the ocean-side boardwalk. Signs everywhere announcing a mask mandate when walking about AND that mask-wearing on the beach not mandatory but is "strongly encouraged." We are both fully vaccinated--not that it should matter when outside in a not-jam-packed area---and I just wouldn't wear my mask. But most people were complying.
Apparently I am an outlaw at heart. Come and get me, coppers!!
I think youтАЩll find that not wearing a mask doesnтАЩt get you that many weird looks and hardly any pushback if any at all. It also helps forestall any of that if you just go about your business and donтАЩt make eye contact with the starers, if there even are any. In fact, you might just be a pathfinder leading others to realize they donтАЩt need a mask either.
I was living in Luxor, Egypt when this pandemic struck. It was interesting looking at the hysteria in the United States from afar. My privileged liberal friends were complaining heroically about the trials and tribulations of lockdown and posting photos of their sushi dinners that they had delivered, virtuously hating on the conspiracy theorists who wanted to break free of confinement. Clueless, of course, to the irony that the whole reason why they could stay so safely inside was because there were people out there serving them. Meanwhile, in Luxor life went on as normal. People in villages do not have the luxury to social distance. And no one wears a mask. It gave me an entirely different perspective and a very enlightening one.
Well said. Pushing back works. Our church no longer requires masks.
Beautifully stated! The mandates to wear masks outside is so sand-poundingly stupid and contrary to the facts (which we've known for the better part of a year) that it has become my line in the sand. Yesterday we walked around the town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, including the ocean-side boardwalk. Signs everywhere announcing a mask mandate when walking about AND that mask-wearing on the beach not mandatory but is "strongly encouraged." We are both fully vaccinated--not that it should matter when outside in a not-jam-packed area---and I just wouldn't wear my mask. But most people were complying.
Apparently I am an outlaw at heart. Come and get me, coppers!!
Fully agree. I was typing a similar post, with a similar timeline, for my part of Texas at the same time
I think youтАЩll find that not wearing a mask doesnтАЩt get you that many weird looks and hardly any pushback if any at all. It also helps forestall any of that if you just go about your business and donтАЩt make eye contact with the starers, if there even are any. In fact, you might just be a pathfinder leading others to realize they donтАЩt need a mask either.
I was living in Luxor, Egypt when this pandemic struck. It was interesting looking at the hysteria in the United States from afar. My privileged liberal friends were complaining heroically about the trials and tribulations of lockdown and posting photos of their sushi dinners that they had delivered, virtuously hating on the conspiracy theorists who wanted to break free of confinement. Clueless, of course, to the irony that the whole reason why they could stay so safely inside was because there were people out there serving them. Meanwhile, in Luxor life went on as normal. People in villages do not have the luxury to social distance. And no one wears a mask. It gave me an entirely different perspective and a very enlightening one.
I smile at others without masks, to give them encouragement.