You misunderstand me. Outdoors I don’t give a rats ass if you wear a mask. If I am not comfortable with how close you or anyone else is to me I just move. The chance of you infecting someone outdoors is tiny.
The chance of infecting anyone indoors is very tiny too. Well, other than inside people's own homes from family members as we now know. Indoor incidental exposure is not how this works; it takes longer for the viral load of an infected person indoors to infect the other person.
I am referring exclusively to indoor venues. That’s inside businesses such as waiting in line at Costco or supermarkets, for example.
Funny you mention Costco as I was there yesterday. At the door the membership check person said, "sir, you must wear a mask to come inside". I ignored her and kept walking. Then within seconds an employee with a walkie talkie approaches me and says, "sir, we request that all customers continue to wear masks." I replied, "you are requesting?" He says, "yes". I said, "well, if you are requesting, then my answer is no thank you." I then continued to shop noting how 50% of the other shoppers AND employees who were wearing masks had them below their noses.
What a crappy job "requesting" somebody comply with a rule, that they are NOT enforcing anyway. I am convinced that with store clerks and some others it comes down to a passive/aggressive tendency---or need to feel like they have some power over people. It is the only power some employees have in their lives to be given a policy they can wield like a club. It is exactly how the Hitler youth worked. We'll supply your ego with warm fuzzies if you tell on your neighbors and parents.
Masks are no longer required in restaurants and it never made sense to require them in the first place since people can’t eat wearing a mask.
Restaurants prove that you don't need them in supermarkets either. Think about it: in a restaurant you are there for at least an hour without a mask. In a supermarket you are on average in their only a fourth of the time you would be in a restaurant. So, why wear them in supermarkets anyway? The don't make you any safer than a restaurant where people are eating, chewing, dribbling, talking, laughing.
I have reported a few maskholes to management inside eligible venues and on each occasion they handled to problem.
Ironic you call people like me the "maskholes" when we so you folks who demand masks for no rational reason the maskholes.
Here in Southern California the fear factor over covid is highest in the liberal zip codes. Go to places like Newport Beach and Irvine, and you will have not seen more than a small percentage of people wearing masks, not on the streets, not indoors, not in restaurants or bars---- not even the employees. And the infections in the most conservative zipcodes is less than the liberal zipcodes in my observation. My theory on that is that people who believed masks actually helped, then went out and were MORE risky than those who knew they did next to nothing.
I have no authority to force anyone to comply with a mask mandate. But the management of indoor businesses sure do. They risk losing their business license if they aren’t in compliance with local mandates.
I know some feel they can enforce their rules, and at most all they can do is deny service, they can't lay hands on you; they can call the police, and this stage of the game the police are not interested in coming out over masks, not even in liberal Los Angeles, the LAPD do not care about that, there are bigger problems than mask disputes. In the last two years I only had one business refuse me service, and the stupidity was that is was a donut shop/stand where the employees are inside behind a glass window, and customers all outside. LOL Asian owned BTW. Asians seem to be more likely to comply with masks either out of fear, or because somebody told them they must----same way I guess it is in China.
Fortunately these instances have been few and far between, and now that indoor mask mandates have been retracted due to falling cases and hospitalizations hopefully I won’t feel obliged to perform my civic duty again any time soon.
I find it lauaghable that you thought that being a tattle tale was your "civic duty". Go back to what I said about China, and consider what your compliance was really about?
