Following are the latest reports from your fellow Freedom Fighters as they defend humanity and defy Our Rulers in the Mask Wars.
Michael Geary in Wyoming
see[s] the use of masks beginning to diminish in our area. Generally speaking it’s now 75% masked, 25% unmasked. I have yet to be challenged in any store, whether by an employee or a masked moron. Several times I’ve witnessed masked people, when viewing the unmasked near them, take off their mask and shove it into their pocket or purse and go about their business.
I went into a national auto parts store yesterday. Big sign on the door, Masks Required! No employees were wearing masks. I loudly said to the employees, What, no masks? One employee laughed and responded, “The owner got the message when we told him people were taking their business down the street to the, ‘We don’t give s*** if you wear a mask or not place.’” We all laughed.
Next up is Sam,
reporting from the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts, where hitherto my refusal to wear a mask has been met with essentially zero resistance from the pitiable employees-turned-mask-police at sundry establishments. Today, however, that changed.
I was looking forward to seeing the new Russell Crowe film, aptly titled UNHINGED, which opened here … after it was bumped back from its previous July release. I did not expect any resistance from my local movie theatre given my experience at other establishments, but just to be sure, I checked the AMC Theatres webpage for my local cinema, to read their specific policy regarding masks. It clearly says in bold: Auditoriums are at 40% capacity or less to allow for social distancing. Masks are required before, during and after the movie unless you are enjoying food and drinks.
Bingo. There’s the loophole. You can’t eat or drink if you’re wearing a mask, right? So I casually entered the theatre with a big wad of chewing gum in my mouth, just to preempt any objections, and another wad of cash in my pocket, to possibly buy popcorn.
I thought everything was fine when I got past the ticket lady after explaining my medical exemption (my medical condition, you ask? I’m allergic to tyranny!), but after a short trip to the men’s room, the manager and her entourage tracked me down – like a fugitive – intercepted me at my assigned seat (in row D for Dehumanizing), and demanded that I put on the proper uniform or leave.
I explained to her my medical exemption, but she said there are no exceptions. I then explained the theatre’s own policy as I had read it online, but she insisted my chewing gum did not count as real food (as opposed to Milk Duds and Coke, I presume). She went on to explain that, in actual fact, they don’t even currently SELL food or drink at their Massachusetts locations, as per Governor Baker’s fascist decree. The theatre’s mask policy has effectively been rendered a catch-22 here: you’re exempt if you have refreshments, but you can’t have refreshments.
I was dumbfounded. “A movie theatre without popcorn?” I wondered aloud.
She agreed with the absurd nature of it all, saying, “I know, that’s how we make our money,” but she nonetheless insisted on enforcing the absurd – the Theatre of the Absurd, quite literally – albeit with the faintest ambivalence of one whose livelihood depends on soul-sucking conformity.
She then offered me a refund, and of course I accepted, because I refuse to pay fifteen bucks for the “pleasure” of sitting in a darkened room for ninety minutes, muzzled, without the ability to snack or even drink water, apparently. I wonder if Governor Baker and the other tyrants in power realize that turning movie theatre chains into popcorn-free zones and soft-torture dungeons is a bad business model that may very well kill off a section of the economy that was already moribund before the shamdemic.
Even politicians can’t be this stupid: surely they realized that their lockdowns and subsequent hamstringing of businesses, such as the theater Sam tried to patronize, would impoverish their tax-base. And if they didn’t previously, they certainly do now, with Comrade Cuomo of the Evil Empire of New York bellyaching that his victims no longer cooperate as he fleeces them. And yet, Our Rulers continue bankrupting their golden geese. Why?
Anyway, in conclusion, another employee then gave me a refund, and as a bonus he threw in a free movie pass which was almost worth the whole rotten ordeal, but needless to say, I won’t be redeeming it in this fascist joke of a state any time soon. It’s enough to make one . . . unhinged.
Martin Hill, who runs NoMask.info, describes an ally:
We are Catholic and my wife & I went to Vigil Mass last night. The priest is a good one in Los Angeles Archdiocese, who still gives Holy Communion on the tongue, and I’ve had discussions with him about the masks & the CA exemptions. During his homily the priest said that “there are even spies among us!”
As is the case in all Marxist dystopias. How very sad and debilitating.
and that he got a call from the L.A. County Health Dept last week; someone was complaining that the pastor was not complying with social distancing requirements and that he wasn’t enforcing mask mandates. He informed them that the families are sitting together, and that family members who live in the same household are not required to wear masks if they’re six feet away from others.
Finally, Charles Frasco in Texas
went to my new Primary Care Physician today for a referral. Signs on entrance doors said “Masks Required No Exceptions”. Signs on reception desk “Masks Required No Exceptions”. Went in with no mask. Everybody was wearing masks. Nobody said a word about it. Everyone was polite, and the subject never came up.
Oh, for just one sign reading, “Liberty Required, No Exceptions”!
6:10 pm on August 28, 2020
