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I was very surprised yesterday. I worked the poll for the primaries and every person who came in to vote wore a mask and I live in the south, very republican, very much Rah rah Trump.

I can’t imagine being angry enough at someone that I physically harm them and I’ve been seething with anger every damn day since early March. Daniel Tiger mantra for the win💪🏿

they found her and charged her with assault

Is this what society is really coming to?
Making excuses for people throwing each other around?
I don`t care what the older woman said there is no reason or excuse for what the younger women did.


 just for the record I managed to type this out and edit the multiple swear words and insults before posting. I am sure you will insert your own.

I just don’t get people. I haven’t gone out a lot since this all had started so I’m not used to wearing a mask. The other day we were eating at a restaurant. Our masks were sitting on the table next to us while we ate. My husband was waiting for the waiter to bring him his change so I got up and went to the boutique next door. I totally forgot my mask. The sales lady told me I had to have a mask to shop so I apologized and ran back to the restaurant to get it. It was frustrating but I wasn’t mad at her, I was mad at myself for forgetting. All of this is frustrating but you don’t get to take it out on other people.

I’m in MN, too. The first week masks were mandated in the city I live by, I walked into tjmaxx and an employee was talking to a woman with five kids, none of whom were wearing masks. I don’t know wha the woman’s excuse was but she said, “I guess I need to have my shirt printed now.” I did see them later on in the store and all but the youngest girl were wearing masks. Other than that, All stores have signs on the door but I haven’t seen other stores talking to people as they come in. Most of the time I see compliance, though. But last week I was in a gas station in a small rural town. The employees wore masks but of the other four customers that came in, I was the only one wearing one. Nobody said anything.

I’ve had people say they were going to wear masks and acting indignant about it. I just said that people who wanted stores to be open and no masks had no problem telling others to stay home, so I guess now it is the non-mask wearers turn to stay home if they want. Somehow their attitude is not the same when they are being told they can stay home.

Yep. The free-dumb warriors want to have everything open AND no masks. They want "compromised people" to just stay home. Because free-dumb warriors rights to be out and about WITHOUT a mask TRUMPS immuno-compromised and at-risk people's right to be ANYWHERE AT ALL except home.

How are your points 2 and 3 not victim blaming? Who cares why she was out? She has the right to safely do so. The assailant clearly and intentionally violated the victim’s personal space. She had every right to ask her to put her mask on and back up and there was no reasonable expectation that she’d be assaulted as a result.

How do you know if a person has a medical reason for not wearing one? That keeps me from judging
That was an over the top reaction. I think the lack of socialization and complete change of life is making people crazy. If you're an extrovert, it's got to be really trying.

People absolutely have the right to request that you wear a mask in their presence. And they absolutely have a right to defend themselves. I’m not talking about policing. I’m talking specifically about the occasion where the assailant invaded her personal space. If she insisted on violating her space that way, the victim had every right to protect and defend herself by asking her to put a mask on while breathing that closely to her. In that instance with the woman so close, it wasn’t practical for her to seek assistance but to protect herself immediately.

We had the same experience in a kitchen and bath store. I wrote a Facebook message to the owner but haven’t heard anything. Not getting my bath remodeled there. Big mistake...big...huge!

I can’t believe we’re blaming the victim for getting herself brutally assaulted. What kind of animal throws an old lady with a cane to the ground? Not sure what the woman was doing in public after a liver transplant, but the penalty should not be getting injured by a nut job.

^^^ THIS is what I don't understand.  Those people can't have it both ways.   What they *really* want is for things to go back the way they used to be, which isn't possible.  So suck it up and wear a mask.

I agree, if you don’t want to wear a mask, have at it but stay the hell out of my 6’ radius. Otherwise I will ask you to back off politely the first time and not so nicely the next time.

In MN, masks are required and it is the store who has to mandate compliance.  If not, they can and will end up being reported to the state.  The state also has compliance checks in various places and if masks aren't required, then the store can be fined and/or shut down. The same with compliance checks on restaurants/bars and masks.