It is in North Carolina. People yell at store clerks, claim bogus ADA exemptions and are, generally, assholes.
It causes me to wonder, during the Second World War, how many people were cheating on their ration stamps, dodging the draft and dealing in black-market goods. I wonder how many people regarded the war effort as a huge inconvenience.
I'm betting that, based on how dickish people are now, that it was in the millions, if not tens of millions. Only after the war did they delude themselves into thinking that they willingly did their part to achieve victory.
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Sorry, I posted a comment that was full of typos and took it down. Here it is again, I hope typo-free:
I'm just barely old enough to remember WWII. (I was five year old when it ended.) My impression, from what I can remember, is that people really did pitch in to do their part.
I have memories of my mother bringing a coffee can full of meat fat drippings, the residue of frying and broiling pans, to the W.T. Grant store (sort of a five-and-dime) to drop off for the war effort. (I think the fat was used to make explosives.) People did things like that. People cared. People worried. My father, too old for the draft, was part of a group of men who went up on the roof of our apartment building every night, wearing white Civil Defense helmets, to watch for enemy aircraft.
Of course, some things were different. For starters, there was rationing of meat and gasoline. Dealing in "black market" products, with or without rationing stamps, was a felony. Additionally, there was the draft. Participating in the war was not optional. Thanks to the draft, it seemed as if just about everyone had family who were "overseas" fighting the war. I had three uncles in France, and an aunt who joined up with the Red Cross supporting the troops in Italy. It was hard to cheat and flaunt it.
I think America made a wrong turn when, in reaction to the Viet Nam War, we went to an all-volunteer army. Yes, I agree that Viet Nam was a bad, stupid war conducted for no legitimate purpose. However, the draft not only fed it bodies, but also created resistance to it, which got us out of it faster. These days, if we bog down in Iraq or Afghanistan for twenty years, it's no skin off most peoples' noses. So they can depersonalize it, the first step toward depersonalizing the need to participate in civil society. When we ended the draft, we took a huge, blundering step toward making national common cause for common needs optional. That was the beginning of the road to decline. Donald Trump is merely the nincompoop who's drag racing down the road, pedal to the metal.
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank
I try to be careful with pronouns that way. For instance "We saved France's ass by kicking Germany's" is a sentiment I have encountered often, but I don't seem to remember personally kicking or saving any of Europe's posteriors, nor did my father or uncle, so I try not to make claims to actions I had no even tangential role in.
My dad did serve in the occupation of Germany when he was in the army, but I never remember him claiming to have kicked any German ass while he was there, although he did have a story about slipping on the ice and falling on his once.
So that particular "we" is not really a word I have any righteous access to.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Indeed. If the property owner chooses, then "no Mask" no service.
Likewise, if they choose to require no mask, then that is as equally valid.
No one forces you to patronize those businesses where you disagree with their policies.
Ferinstance, our Menards chain of home improvement stores has had a "mask required" policy for several months. We no longer patronize them, and instead, shop elsewhere.
Their property, their rules.
My wallet, my choice.
Simple.
B., what about the fact North Carolina has a statewide mask mandate?
Elsewhere I noted that...
Smoking indoors, of course not.
Seatbelts, of course.
Stoplights and signs, of course.
Everyone of those is responsibility to protect
yourself and others.
Mask, you can't force me to do that, rights, long list of BS.
As a citizen your free to not wear one. However being
a citizen comes with responsibility.
So simply put what is the most responsible thing to do?
Wear a mask! No excuses, bullshit, just shut up and leave.
If you go full Karen/Ken, people are getting itchy about
it and you might find it carries consequences for being
an ass. Too many of us would enjoy seeing you perp
walked by the POPO. If your lucky you may only end up
on youtube as that adult having a tantrum like a
3 year old. Either way its sucks.
As to your wallet, your choice. Its really air in one
hand and shit in the other. Don't applaud yourself.
If they have what you need be responsible mask up
and go in and buy it without the drama. You will
have what you wanted and be done with it faster.
No one will notice. Its what adults do.
Eck!
So, would you go into a restaurant in just cargo shorts and demand to be served? Do you look to patronize some other eating establishment where you can wear what you want cause them lib-rels told you no shirt or shoes/ no service.
The “Taking ‘way my raights” attitude causes you to drive 10 minutes further, use up more gas in the vehicle, probably end up paying more (Menards is notoriously cheap) and just to show them you don’t have to wear a mask? You’re gonna cripple their operation by spending your money elsewhere? News flash: your account doesn’t even pay the light bill. But you go right ahead and show them. They’ll learn by golly. This is America and us patriots can do what we want!
Pul-ease.
Dale
You don't want to wear a mask B? S'OK. Go ahead on it, catch the Trump Flu and drown in green slime. You're free white and 21.
And wasting air my grandkids need to survive.
There's only one cure for stupid.
According to a family member, during the war years there was a brief vogue for middle-aged ladies to accost male civilians on the street, grab them by the lapel and demand "Young man! Why aren't you in the ser-visss?"
It died out when guys learned to reply "I have syphilis."
B, have you signed a waiver of medical attention?
Just to be clear.
definition of Patriot:
one who loves and supports his or her country.
and again, Country:
the people of a state or district
So please explain how one can be Patriotic by threatening the health of the people?
It doesn't add up.
w3ski
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