"No mask, no entry. Is that clear enough? That seems pretty clear, right?"

[muriel_volestrangler]

I cannot believe how sociopathic these customers are. They've been encouraged by the socioopath-in-chief, of course:

I’ll never understand what’s so hard about putting on a mask for a few minutes. It’s common sense. It’s a requirement now in North Carolina. But this is a conservative place, and there are only 900 people in this town. We try hard to get along. We’re a small general store, and we didn’t want to end up in one of those viral videos with people spitting or screaming about their civil rights. We put a sign outside — an appeal to kindness. “If you wear a mask, it shows how much you care about us.”

We found out how much they cared. It became clear real quick.

I’m 63. I’m a lifetime asthmatic. I’d watch customers pull into the parking lot without their faces covered, and my whole body would start to tense up. Our store is on the Intracoastal Waterway, and people from all over the world dock in the harbor and come in here for supplies. It’s a big petri dish. I put a shield up over my register, and a few hours into my shift it was covered with spittle. We’d have 20 or 30 people walk by the sign and come in without a mask. I’d try to get their attention and point to the sign. It was a lot of: “You’re infringing on my rights. This is a free country, and I’m here to shop, so who’s going to stop me?”
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Maybe some people took it as a challenge. I don’t know. But it kept on escalating. Most of our customers are supportive and respectful about it — maybe 90, 95 percent. But on weekends, we get dozens of people from Charlotte or Raleigh who come to visit their boats. Those places are virus hot spots, and they come here to have a good time and maybe they’re drinking. Some of them would see our signs, open the front door, and just yell: “F--- masks. F--- you.” Or they would walk in, refuse to wear a mask and then dump their merchandise all over the counter. I had a guy come in with no mask and a pistol on his hip and stare me down. I had a guy who took his T-shirt off and put it over his mouth so I could see his whole stomach. “There. A mask. Are you happy?” I had a lady who tried to tape a pamphlet on the front window about the ADA mask exemption, which is a totally fake thing. It’s a conspiracy theory, but it’s become popular here. She kept saying we were discriminating against people with disabilities. What? Why? How? None of what they say sounds logical. I can’t make sense of half the names they call me. They say I’m uneducated — uh, that’s kind of ironic. They say I’m a sheep. I’ve been brainwashed. I’m pushing government propaganda. I’m suffocating them. I’m a part of the deep state. I’m an agent for the World Health Organization. “How do you like your muzzle?” “Is this going to become sharia law?” “Are you prepping us to wear burqas?” “What’s next? Mind control?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/18/covid-pandemic-store-clerk-north-carolina/?arc404=true

[Faux pas]

1. Can't

they use the private property rule? No shirt no shoes no mask NO SERVICE.

[leftieNanner]

2. They tried

But the ass holes still blew them off. At the end of the article she says that they locked the front door to the store and installed a doorbell. They only let in customers who ring the bell while wearing a mask.

[Faux pas]

3. Good

[SCantiGOP]

4. Just follow the logic

The baker says it will hurt his feelings to have to make a wedding cake for a gay couple:
OF COURSE HE HAS THAT RIGHT, IT IS HIS PRIVATE COMPANY. WHAT ARE YOU A BUNCH OF SOCIALISTS?

The baker says that no one can enter his shop without a mask:
HE HAS NO RIGHT TO TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM, I AM A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN. WHAT ARE YOU, A TOTALITARIAN?

[MyMission]

5. Don't forget "wear a mask correctly"

I work part-time in retail, and do see more folks wearing masks now that the mask order went into effect in NC the last week in June.

But still, some locals and visitors aren't wearing them, or wear them incorrectly, not covering their nose, hanging off their face.

And many are visiting from places that don't require masks, and some seem resentful while others understand and are happy to comply, and others are clueless and don't care about wearing them correctly or at all!

[A Clear n Present D]

6. KICK

Good piece. Thank you for posting m_v!