I went to Home Depot and Lowes Home Improvement for some parts for a door

[40RatRod]

Other than the employees, myself, and an elderly lady, I saw no one wearing a mask and the stores were packed. I don't consider myself as elderly yet though I will be 80 next month.
Middle Georgia is going to be really busy draining the gene pool in the coming weeks.

[mucifer]

1. Fingers crossed most Omicron will be asymptomatic. But, there still is a lot of delta out there

[JanMichael]

2. Their TV ads all show people with masks! How can this be? It is inconceivable.

I thought Home Depot cared?

[pstokely]

3. they don't pay their wage slaves enough to care

and they don't want to get in arguments with anti-maskers, they aren't paid enough to

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Same in Missouri.

People are crazy.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Same in Central Illinois. Hospital is full, no intensive care rooms available, no one wears masks.

About 40% vax rate in my county.

And they all think I am the crazy one.

[pstokely]

14. who's in charge of local mask mandate enforcement?

isn't there a statewide mandate in IL?

[AngryOldDem]

8. Son works at Lowes.

Except for employees, masks have always been optional since the start of the pandemic and he has taken a ton of grief from customers about having to wear one.

Corporate does not want to risk pissing off customers.

[Emile]

9. It's the same thing here behind the Hoosier Iron Curtain!

Had two unmasked assholes in my doctors waiting room bitching about government overreaction to covid this week. The policy for this St. Vincent clinic is everyone must wear a mask. The girl at the check in window gave both of them a mask to wear and one said he was not worried about catching covid because when the good lord is ready to take me he will. The girl at the window said she agrees. So now they both sit down in the busy waiting room holding not wearing their masks and whine about the government.

[AngryOldDem]

11. They should have been thrown out.

But some nurses have said pretty much the same thing, so…

[CrispyQ]

10. My county has mask mandates in public places,

but the stores don't enforce it like they did last year. The unmasked won't look the masked people in the eye, though. They know they're being pricks.

[Tree Lady]

12. The unmasked around here in stores

Look smug and a what ya gonna do about it attitude on their face or they look like its 3 yrs ago nothing happening here.

I am noticing since my state Oregon still has mask mandate, my conservative town Medford is starting to have more disobey. From the beginning the sheriffs said they wouldn't do anything so basically left it up to the stores to police and I think stores are tired of it.

I will say though considering it is a conservative area most still wear masks, I am just starting to see more rebel against it.

[Hortensis]

13. I see comparatively few masked in our area of GA also but try to remember

that roughly half in our ruralish county are vaccinated and presumably haven't decided they should resume masking yet. Expect that to change fast.

[Hotler]

15. But, did you find what you went there for? If I don't check online

before I go they won't have it in stock. Fuckers don't stock shit anymore.

[40RatRod]

16. Nope, not at Home Depot but that is why I went to Lowes. They had the parts I need for the door.