Only if we comply.
Everyone has to do their part to resist, or they are complicit.
My 70 year-old mother has been accosted 3 times already for refusing to mask (most recently with 3 of my kids present), so I’m not really receptive by those cowards, or those who wear them so as not to be inconvenienced.
Such people are guilty of selling us all down the river.
Well, now my mom just told me that after having been verbally abused twice, and pressured out of Target on a third occasion, she wears a mask starting today.
She is afraid someone is going to beat her up if she doesn’t.
She hung in longer than most.
So the woman with two lung cancer operations and news just yesterday of new growth in one of the lung spots is intimidated into wearing a mask she can’t breath in, to the detriment of her health.
What a shithole of a state I live in!!
Meanwhile, while at the grocery store myself today, an old man about 75 almost dropped dead when I came near his cart unmasked to grab an item.
Toward the end of the aisle, he and his elderly wife caught up to me, and the man said, “Sir, just a reminder” as he pointed toward his mask.
I said thank you, and continued to go about my business, unmasked. I’m not going to get into it with an old man who is scared of dying because he watches daily scare-porn (ie., tv).
I notice that in St. Paul/Mpls and the 1st ring suburbs, I am usually the only one wherever I am not wearing a mask, but as you get into the outer suburbs and outskirts (or the small towns of greater Minnesota), adhering to the mask mandate declines dramatically.
There’s way fewer liberals the further you get from the cities, and people seem to be more level-headed.