"It was actually easier to shop unmasked in big box retailers than local merchants"
True. There's a family-owned bakery near my house that I refuse to patronize because they required masks.
The City of Tulsa with its oh-so-woke former mayor (I nicknamed him "Half-caf-decaf-soy-Latte-Bynum") eventually decreed that every retailer in the city would require masking so we refused to buy anything within the city limits and did all our purchases elsewhere.
Perhaps you'll be able to help me track down the name of the town and mayor in Oklahoma I remember reading about very early in pandemania? It made the news when a mayor of a small-medium-sized OK town imposed the mask mandates and business closures. The townfolk initially complied, the whole "two weeks to flatten the curve" thing. But when it was extended the people quickly lost patience. And began to harass and stalk the mayor, both in person and on social media.
The mayor couldn't go anywhere or say/do anything without facing a barrage of criticism and sharp elbows. Within a few weeks the mayor rescinded the mask and closure orders. He pleaded with the townfolk that he didn't deserve the harassment he faced, said it was unfair, that he was "just trying to help."
The media made him out to be the unappreciated hero stopped by selfish freeDUM lovers in the backwoods Oklahoma town full of Neanderthals who wanted to murder people, granny especially, with their unmasked faces and placed their monetary needs - work - above the lives of others.
The townfolk said "y'all can go stay in your Fraidy Hole hell and f off." If only the rest of the country had reacted the same way as that Oklahoma town's population did, there'd never have been a pandemania, the insanity would've been over in a few weeks as people came to their sense.
Do you remember that story, the name of the town? I've never been able to find it since it was first reported, memory-holed. I have no idea if the mayor came back later and mustered the force to impose his will on the townfolk, or if the townfolk relented after months of more and more fear porn was pumped into them. I've remained curious about how that all played out.
Sorry but I didn't hear about this one. I know it wasn't Tulsa which immediately buckled under to the Pandemic and all its freedom-hating idiocy.
I love my state - except that no one here seems to fight back when the Chamber of Commerce decides to mask up or jab everyone “for the common good.”
I argued with my state senator for awhile about this. But he - a popular former football coach - treated me like I was the crazy one.
Though we vote GOP here - one of only two states with all 77 counties voting red - the conservatism is not even skin deep, and there's always a propaganda battle being waged by the fiscal conservatives against the social conservatives.
It's like being a conservative is somehow deeply embarrassing like dating your cousin or something.
"It was actually easier to shop unmasked in big box retailers than local merchants"
True. There's a family-owned bakery near my house that I refuse to patronize because they required masks.
The City of Tulsa with its oh-so-woke former mayor (I nicknamed him "Half-caf-decaf-soy-Latte-Bynum") eventually decreed that every retailer in the city would require masking so we refused to buy anything within the city limits and did all our purchases elsewhere.
Perhaps you'll be able to help me track down the name of the town and mayor in Oklahoma I remember reading about very early in pandemania? It made the news when a mayor of a small-medium-sized OK town imposed the mask mandates and business closures. The townfolk initially complied, the whole "two weeks to flatten the curve" thing. But when it was extended the people quickly lost patience. And began to harass and stalk the mayor, both in person and on social media.
The mayor couldn't go anywhere or say/do anything without facing a barrage of criticism and sharp elbows. Within a few weeks the mayor rescinded the mask and closure orders. He pleaded with the townfolk that he didn't deserve the harassment he faced, said it was unfair, that he was "just trying to help."
The media made him out to be the unappreciated hero stopped by selfish freeDUM lovers in the backwoods Oklahoma town full of Neanderthals who wanted to murder people, granny especially, with their unmasked faces and placed their monetary needs - work - above the lives of others.
The townfolk said "y'all can go stay in your Fraidy Hole hell and f off." If only the rest of the country had reacted the same way as that Oklahoma town's population did, there'd never have been a pandemania, the insanity would've been over in a few weeks as people came to their sense.
Do you remember that story, the name of the town? I've never been able to find it since it was first reported, memory-holed. I have no idea if the mayor came back later and mustered the force to impose his will on the townfolk, or if the townfolk relented after months of more and more fear porn was pumped into them. I've remained curious about how that all played out.
Sorry but I didn't hear about this one. I know it wasn't Tulsa which immediately buckled under to the Pandemic and all its freedom-hating idiocy.
I love my state - except that no one here seems to fight back when the Chamber of Commerce decides to mask up or jab everyone “for the common good.”
I argued with my state senator for awhile about this. But he - a popular former football coach - treated me like I was the crazy one.
Though we vote GOP here - one of only two states with all 77 counties voting red - the conservatism is not even skin deep, and there's always a propaganda battle being waged by the fiscal conservatives against the social conservatives.
It's like being a conservative is somehow deeply embarrassing like dating your cousin or something.