I live in SC, 5 minutes from downtown Charleston. My gym has been full open since around June, only masks required on entering and leaving. Same as most other gyms in the area. Bars and restaurants here are doing great again and people are living life. I know exactly one person who was diagnosed with Covid and they recovered just fine. Our main hospitals at the height of Covid here were ghost towns with many nurses and Dr’s being laid off, up to to 50% at some hospitals. People here were over it by May, and started facing the boogey man shortly thereafter. Life is normal here for the most part. My town even got rid of the mask ordnance, but did reintroduce it for federal property, pharmacies and grocers I believe.
Nice to see some sanity.
Here in Canada where I am in Thunder Bay, the Ontario Ministry of Health demanded masks.
But under Canadian federal law, people have legitimate medical reasons not to put on items such as masks - for example, claustrophobia, or in my case, autism spectrum disorder. I am only on the cusp of autism, and it gives me super hearing, so excess stimulation DOES bother me, but it is limited to noise, or being in large crowds [or - frankly - with any people]. But again, that's only because of the noise issues.
That being said, autism spectrum disorder IS a stimulation disorder, and it's my legal right to refuse to wear a mask due to having a valid medical reason not to wear one. And I have a letter from a clinical psychologist stating as much.
But in Canada, Canadian citizens aren't legally allowed to ask other Canadian citizens what the medical exemption is. Under federal law, it is illegal to ask.
So any citizen in Canada is legally allowed to not wear a mask, AND it is illegal to even ask that person why they aren't wearing a mask.
That is...unless federal law is changed. And that could well happen, but that's irrelevant; under current federal law, we don't have to wear masks in Canada.
At my gym, I spoke to the owner directly about it, and she had a memo sent to all employees not to...well...even look at me.
LIKE. A. BOSS.
That's what a non-pussy does - asserts his authority.
NOT like it's all that hard to do that in the case of the masks here in Canada, where the federal law is overwhelmingly on our side.
But...people are pussies. And I'm still seeing people walking outside wearing masks.
Oh well.