I was the only person without a mask at Whole Foods

America's fury wrote:

Why do conservatives get such a b0ner over masks, anyway?

Because a mask is a visible sign of change, and they *hate* it.

IMO that was why so many of them hated Obama (I didn't vote for him either) right from the start: not *primarily* because of racism (at least for many), but because the man literally embodied change. He personified changes in the world and the country, and they *hate* that--and hated him as a result.

Weird story. Why would you make something like this up and then post it on a running website?

Consider your life choices and make some changes.

Wow, Bunghole...... you are a warrior. I’m sure the other shoppers stood in awe of your defiance.

Did you consider that maybe no one else in the store was vaccinated? Unlikely, but you had no way of knowing for sure.

People who shop at Whole Foods have a superiority complex. They believe that by paying exorbitant prices, it gives them the right to think "My food is better than your food". Comical because their food really is no better than reasonably priced food available at Piggly Wiggly.

The mask wearing squares perfectly with their feeling of superiority.

Bummbull wrote:

I was the only person without a mask at Whole Foods

So?

So whole foods is full of anti vaxxers? Kinda makes sense I guess.

Imagine having so little going on in your life that you feel the need to come on a running message board and complain that complete strangers are making their own decisions…

Speedy1966 wrote:

Conversely, I have only seen one person wearing a mask this week.

But I live in Idaho……..

Is Idaho going to let eastern Oregon join? You all have to vote for it too or it won't happen.

"So...I’m still wearing mine to normalize it."

How dehumanizing.

CrispyChicken wrote:

"Why take a risk about something NO ONE has a clue about."

Yet you trust the vaccine?

Right. If we need to, we can drink bleach and inject Lysol.

josh1988 wrote:

Imagine having so little going on in your life that you feel the need to come on a running message board and complain that complete strangers are making their own decisions…

Yet, you post to point out about other strangers writing on a running message board about something unrelated to running.

Talk about irony or someone just being a moron.

DanM wrote:

People who shop at Whole Foods have a superiority complex. They believe that by paying exorbitant prices, it gives them the right to think "My food is better than your food". Comical because their food really is no better than reasonably priced food available at Piggly Wiggly.

The mask wearing squares perfectly with their feeling of superiority.

No, it was at Target as well. It’s this whole city where they kept using CDC as a guideline to tell conservatives to wear masks prior to vaccine availability. But as soon as CDC narrative doesn’t fit theirs, they conveniently don’t believe in CDC.

I can think of at least 2 reasons:

1. there are plenty of people who would like to be vaccinated, but can't be. Kids under 12 for example. I recognize that their risk of adverse consequences are much lower than grandma, but nobody wants to deal with a sick 8 year old who has a fever for a week and a half.

2. the more people who catch covid - even mild or asymptomatic cases - the greater the chance of variants developing, some of which will elude vaccines or cause more severe cases.

One other thing: I went into a Whole Foods today in a fairly large city in the south, and despite the "masks required" rule still in effect, I estimate that about 1/3 of the customers in there were not wearing masks. A few weeks ago it was pretty much 100%.

I just went to a Publix and I only saw one other person besides myself not wear a mask. I live in a large liberal city, so I guess that’s what you get when you make wearing masks a political statement. I don’t really care whether someone wears a mask or not though.

The people who think OP is making this up are pretty naïve or just don’t like someone taking shots at their political side.

BLM!! wrote:

I just went to a Publix and I only saw one other person besides myself not wear a mask. I live in a large liberal city, so I guess that’s what you get when you make wearing masks a political statement. I don’t really care whether someone wears a mask or not though.

The people who think OP is making this up are pretty naïve or just don’t like someone taking shots at their political side.

The people who think he's not making it up have a very low IQ.

Guessing you're the OP.

With some it's "erring on the side of caution." Nobody gets hurt by you-or yourself--when you wear a mask even though the latest word is that you need not. But if the latest word is not in fact the latest word, and there's a "flaw in the ountment" you are covered.

I still wear double mask when in the market. California is still under a mandate, and I would even if there were none--until I feel I have enough time and info to indicate that it is reasonably safe to lose the mask. They are not paranoid necessarily. Many are just cautious.

Social Science Is A Science wrote:

Simpler and more effective to keep requiring that everyone wear them, until some threshold of the population has been fully vaccinated and/or new cases have dropped below some level.

Just two weeks to flatten the curve, right?