A Positive Mask Moment Today

[ProfessorGAC]

Needed staples. Big coffee, juices, dog food, dog treats, dental care, etc.
And, I needed cigars.
So, went to the WalMart at the town around 20 miles west.
Walking in, guy looks at tablet and says, "You can go straight in, sir."
So, he's actually keeping count. Good thing, number one. BTW, he's a pretty big dude.
Going around my right is a twenty something goes in, without waiting, and NO MASK!
Guy at door says, "Hey! Stop right now!"
He told the guy no mask, no entry. Then he says "Enforcing masks is what they're paying me for!"
Told him to get out.
Without a word, guy walked out.
Was glad to see someone enforcing the mask thing!

[lunatica]

1. Good!

That’s exactly what should happen.

Maybe by the third wave this will be standard operating procedure. Sometime next year.

[RussBLib]

2. FWIW, we have seen 100% mask use

here in South Texas, we get to the grocery store about once per week, just recently went to Lowe's for some garden stuff. Every single person in every single store we have been to over the last month has been wearing a mask. Now, we have NOT gone to Walmart during that time, and I expect that they are not quite as diligent.

Still, South Texas is now a virus hotspot. Hidalgo County (McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr) led the state in new cases and new deaths recently. I keep hearing stories of Hispanics not wanting to wear the mask, but I have not seen one single unmasked person over the last month.

[Oppaloopa]

10. Me too in Florida Walmart.Some are wearing face shields also.

[amuse bouche]

31. Went to walmart this am, east of Tampa. Security outside enforcing masks

Same shopping center, I went to Publix. A guy running around wrong way on lanes and no mask

At the register I asked the cashier, why is no one enforcing rules? He said last week we could. This week we are not allowed to say anything

[noneof_theabove]

26. FWIW, we have seen 100% mask use

I'm outside Corpus and everyone is wearing masks, it's mandatory.

Yes, it's bad. Yesterday I think Corpus set a record, a 6mth old child verified died from CV.

[underpants]

3. He. Needed. Staples.

Just kidding. I don’t even know if we have a stapler in this. Maybe in the garage - hey we’ve only lived here a year.

Good to hear. 95% = 45,000 lives. That’s what they are saying.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Not That Kind Of Staples!!!

You know, staples as in routine necessities!
Your reply had me laughing.
Dog thinks I'm nuts.

[Tree-Hugger]

6. I read it the same way.

I thought you meant office supply staples.

[JHB]

9. No dog, but housemate gave me an odd look...

Yep, I took "staples" to be an item on your shopping list, not the categorization.

Although considering the other things I understood why you went to Walmart and not Staples.

[underpants]

18. 😛

I actually got it after I’d typed the response .....but I went with it.

Glad you enjoyed.

[paleotn]

22. I could have gone either way...staples or staples...

as in holding two or more pieces of paper together, usually at the top left corner. I still have one. I keep it next to my extra quills and ink well.

Seriously, I still have a sliderule. Given to me by my brother ages ago. He passed on that knowledge in case my newfangled calculator crapped out. No batteries required and if you're good at it, it's almost as fast as a hand calculator.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Slide Rule. Me, Too

Nice one, too!
I had a circular one in the early 70s, too.
But have no idea what happened to it.

[central scrutinizer]

27. I lost my circular one, too

In one of my classrooms at the community college was one of those giant eight foot long demonstration models. You can get great accuracy with that baby.

I would pass out copies of log tables and ask students to compute the fifth root of 0.000314 using only paper and pencil and the tables.

[lastlib]

34. Wouldn't DREAM of parting with my old Pickett steel slide-rule!

I can solve triangles on it faster than any app or spreadsheet!

A few years ago at work, I mentioned using a slide-rule to some younger colleagues, who said, "What's a slide-rule?" I had to bring one in to show them; they were absolutely AMAZED that you could do multiplication, division & trig on it!
(Kids.........)

[erronis]

12. This is what marketers want to do. Coopt the use of common terms to become "staple" items.

Kleenex, anyone?

[NurseJackie]

15. Staples actually sells staples.

[Dem2theMax]

19. Took me about 10 seconds to get that.

[NurseJackie]

20. Don't feel bad... it took me longer than that.

My son sent this to me, and I was just about to text him and ask for an explanation... then it hit me! (Duh!)

[Dem2theMax]

21. It might have been more than 10 seconds.

I watched it, then I'm sitting here playing it back in my head, trying to figure out why he was heading to the next place.

(Don't want to give it away because others need to watch the video.)

And then the light bulb went off!

[drmeow]

32. Not even 10 seconds - instantaneous LOL! nt

[hlthe2b]

5. ON mask enforcement...

Ok, I'm lucky to live in a locale where city and county officials got on the same page and MANDATED masks months ago. But, that doesn't mean everyone was particularly willing, especially early on.

So, I'm going to relay this story carefully because I don't want anyone to think I'm intending to be insensitive nor disrespectful nor inappropriately critical. Nor am I meaning to "make fun" of anyone. But, early on, when people who did not want to maks were most aggressive I went to our local Sam's Club and noted that they had assigned one person to enforce the mask policy and after talking with him and hearing about the intermittent confrontations--sometimes angry-- I really had to wonder about the choice of "enforcer." Not the burly stocking guys nor the young athletic male summer hires. It was my buddy, Arnie, a great guy, but also an achondroplastic (short-limbed) dwarf. Don't get me wrong, I've been greeted at the door by Arnie for a couple of years now and he clearly is professional, self-sufficient, and can hold his own. But sending him out as the one to confront the Trumpster types--pissed off that they had to wear a mask? There just seemed to be something perverse about that choice, but maybe not...

Still, the past two times I've gone in there I haven't seen Arnie, so I have to wonder... ??

[ProfessorGAC]

7. You May Be On To Something

I'm not a big guy. 5'9", around 165. So a guy being bigger than me doesn't have to the Hulk.
But, the guy I saw was a pretty big dude. Guessing around 6'3", over 250 pounds.
The "no mask" guy was bigger than me too. But, perhaps shear size is a positive attribute to that assignment.

[JHB]

11. Yep. With bars and clubs shut down, there are bouncers who could use the work

[Laelth]

33. Makes sense to me.

What kind of bully do you have to be to get physical with a dwarf?



Plus, it’s tough for most of us to “get in a dwarf’s face,” so to speak.

-Laelth

[Bigredhunk]

8. :-)

That's awesome! If businesses would just all require masks in their shop(s), this would be fixed. Don't want to wear one? You can't come. People aren't going to stop going to Malwart, etc... They'll wear masks.

Of course the mandate should come from the government, not private business. But if elected officials don't have the stones to do it, businesses should.

[erronis]

13. Many local governments have the "stones" and ordinances. But they are sometimes overridden by (r)

(r)epuglicon governors who want to kill their populations.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. DeWine Just Mandated In Ohio

Some county sheriff, who does wear a mask, said he won't enforce it.
Said something about not willing to be the mask police.

[EarlG]

14. I've been pleasantly surprised

to note that on the occasions I've had to go out (post office, grocery store, etc.) almost every single person I've seen has been wearing a mask. The few I've seen not wearing them have been sitting outside at coffee or ice-cream shops, mostly young people. Indoors, I don't recall seeing anyone without one, nor have I seen witnessed anyone kicking up a stink about having to wear one, or even complaining about it (although there was a customer at the post office doing the classic "mask-over-mouth-but-not-nose" thing). People are definitely taking it seriously. This is suburban MD by the way.

[soldierant]

17. A privately owned business in an area which has a

criminal trespass statute may consider signage:

MASKS REQUIRED
TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED

Failure to follow rules set by a private property owner makes on a treapasser.

But, yeah, bouncers need work, and a big bouncer carroes a lot of weight (pun intended).

[wnylib]

23. Gov Cuomo gave an executive order

allowing retail places to refuse entry to anyone without a mask. There are a couple discount stores near my drug store, so when I pick up meds, I go to the other stores, too, to get various needed items in one outing.

At the drug store and discount stores most customers do wear masks. But since reopening, more people are going without them. Those stores do not enforce the mask rule. Sometimes I see an employee without a mask. People seem to think that reopening means the risk is over.

The only place I go to that strictly enforces the mask rule is my grocery store. A local business, not a chain. The owner is about 6'2" and large boned. There is a sign in the entrance that masks are required. He backs his employees when they confront someone. The other day I heard a cashier call out a woman by name to tell her she needed a mask when she saw her enter without one. The woman said she only needed a few items. Cashier said no exceptions and told her the store had masks available for people who needed them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. It is not being enforced at all here in Mobile AL even though it's the law

I have to drive a lot with my profession so I pass a lot of stores daily. The parking lots are full of people with no masks heading in or out of stores. Sure there are a lot of law abiding people but not nearly enough.
The city saw it's largest increase in cases today since the pandemic began.

Not to make this "racial" but I am SOOOOOO proud of the AA community here in my city. I RARELY see any persons of color without a mask. Makes me very happy.

[TomSlick]

28. In my corner of Arkansas,

Maybe 20% of the customers are wearing masks. All of the "associates" have masks but many are worn below the nose - or chin.

At least I have not been accosted for wearing a mask. Then again, I'm a large guy and don't give off the vibe of gladly suffering fools.

[Cha]

29. Sounds like a thing

of beauty to me! Could be a matter of life and death.

[raccoon]

30. Good thing they got a big dude for that job. Otherwise,

Good thing they got a big dude for that job. Otherwise, Some people like that woman in North Carolina would try to fight with him.

[Star-Thrower]

35. I love it! but...

I wish more store would do that here in SC where we DO have a mask ordinance that apparently is not able to be enforced. SMH!