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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #51 on: April 29, 2020, 04:42:26 PM »
Anyone going to boycott Costco and ditch their membership?

https://www.fox9.com/news/costco-will-require-all-shoppers-to-wear-face-masks-starting-may-4?fbclid=IwAR2C1whN4Ds9ygagj4cCyYwj5ZRSgjZmleWEb6N2ungOYmEBqkvPVcAYmL8



Why? I haven't gone in two months because of lines. I can skip another two months until they stop requiring masks. Or costco.com. Or go and wear my CM-6M and see how they like me now.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #52 on: April 29, 2020, 04:53:10 PM »
Why? I haven't gone in two months because of lines. I can skip another two months until they stop requiring masks. Or costco.com. Or go and wear my CM-6M and see how they like me now.

Yea, but they are violating your rights!
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #53 on: April 29, 2020, 05:01:08 PM »
Yea, but they are violating your rights!

They prohibit guns too, yet I'm heeled everytime I visit.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #54 on: April 29, 2020, 05:01:19 PM »
Yea, but they are violating your rights!

How?  ???
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #55 on: April 29, 2020, 05:05:14 PM »
How?  ???

Have to wear a mask to enter a place of business, unable to make the personal choice of not being able to choose between wearing one or not if you want to visit the business. 
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #56 on: April 29, 2020, 07:23:21 PM »
Have to wear a mask to enter a place of business, unable to make the personal choice of not being able to choose between wearing one or not if you want to visit the business. 

Who is making the rule, the business or the government?  It makes a difference.  "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" 
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #57 on: April 29, 2020, 08:47:21 PM »
I don't like mandatory anything but I admit I am having waaay too much fun rolling into places with a red bandana over my face. Hope it keeps up for awhile, do all the mean things to facial recognition systems while masks are required.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #58 on: April 29, 2020, 09:58:01 PM »



Buddy of mine just printed me one of these.

If we're gonna have TSA style kabuki pseudoscience,  I'm gonna have some fun with it.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #59 on: April 29, 2020, 09:58:57 PM »
Who is making the rule, the business or the government?  It makes a difference.  "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"  

True, but is Costco reacting because some of their locations are in mandatory mask states, so corporate went company wide because they could? On the other hand, you are open and serving the public, so why would you require a "dress code" for everyone.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #60 on: April 29, 2020, 10:29:17 PM »
The mask requirement is just a way to rub our noses in the doo doo. Purely a power trip.
 The homemade poorly worn contraptions people are walking around with are ridiculous.
 They must think a virus is the size of a grain of sugar.

 IN a weird way though, I can't wait to write all over a nice white N95.  "INFECTED!" "NUKE CHINA!"
 "SOCIAL CONTROL!"  endless list of possibilities. 

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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #61 on: April 29, 2020, 10:36:45 PM »



Buddy of mine just printed me one of these.

If we're gonna have TSA style kabuki pseudoscience,  I'm gonna have some fun with it.

Cool!  Do you have the rest of the outfit?  (hat, cane, etc) :D
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #63 on: April 29, 2020, 10:57:29 PM »
True, but is Costco reacting because some of their locations are in mandatory mask states, so corporate went company wide because they could?

Company wide seems to be their modus operandi.  I recall the gun policy even says something to the effect that they didn't care about state or local laws when they made that policy, because it was about making their customers and employees "safe". Still, I've printed, flashed, etc. numerous times, and employees and customers had to have seen the gun, but no one ever says anything here, so local employees may not always agree with the policy.

I doubt there will be leeway with the masks though. Still, I can't help but think it's Costco Seattle-centric social theater at this point. As with any other mask wearing, IMO, it would have had more meaning and positive effect as a mandatory policy two months ago.

Also, if Costco wanted to put their money where their mouth is, they would be offering free sealed and sterile masks at the door for their customers who show up without one versus turning away irate customers who show up without knowing the mask policy is in effect.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #64 on: April 29, 2020, 11:02:34 PM »
Cool!  Do you have the rest of the outfit?  (hat, cane, etc) :D


Working on it! 

I'll get actual pics of mine when I finish it.  Right now it's just a giant front heavy mask thing.  I plan to gut a chainsaw hardhat/face shield combo and attach the plague mask to it, and then cover all the support bits in leather.  For the rest,  I've been going to renn faires forever,  I've got a few ideas   :cool:
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #65 on: April 29, 2020, 11:16:42 PM »
https://news.iheart.com/featured/coast-to-coast-am/content/2020-04-29-cops-seek-plague-doctor-in-england/

Awesome. Good for him.

A year or so ago, we had a couple of weirdos show up at church wearing masks and veils. Creepy, but we didn't call the cops or throw them out or anything.

It's just great how a guy wearing a dress and makeup is a hero, and there's something wrong with you if you don't like it; but dress up as a clown or a plague doctor, and the police respond.

We've had one of those brave heroes at church, too.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #66 on: April 29, 2020, 11:19:56 PM »
True, but is Costco reacting because some of their locations are in mandatory mask states, so corporate went company wide because they could? On the other hand, you are open and serving the public, so why would you require a "dress code" for everyone.

False dichotomy. "Open to the public" does not mean what some people seem to think it means. We've discussed this before.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #67 on: April 29, 2020, 11:23:20 PM »
False dichotomy. "Open to the public" does not mean what some people seem to think it means. We've discussed this before.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #68 on: April 29, 2020, 11:46:26 PM »
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Unless they run a store, apparently.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #69 on: April 30, 2020, 12:22:48 AM »
Why it makes sense for everyone to mask up
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #70 on: April 30, 2020, 01:30:37 AM »
charby, do you really think Costco requiring masks in their store is the same thing as government requiring masks everywhere? I mean, as far as your individual rights are concerned?
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #71 on: April 30, 2020, 01:49:29 AM »
I can't wait till I get home and can wear my M40 mask to the store......

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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #72 on: April 30, 2020, 10:18:23 AM »
charby, do you really think Costco requiring masks in their store is the same thing as government requiring masks everywhere? I mean, as far as your individual rights are concerned?

I don't feel like participating.
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #73 on: April 30, 2020, 11:18:49 AM »
I don't fell like participating.

Yeah, that's the difference, isn't it?
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Re: Mandatory masks?
« Reply #74 on: April 30, 2020, 11:32:22 AM »
Have to wear a mask to enter a place of business, unable to make the personal choice of not being able to choose between wearing one or not if you want to visit the business. 

BS.  Freedom of association means skipping Costco until they ditch the mask rule, if one is so inclined.  No rights are violated. 
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