Since I’m currently undergoing chemotherapy and have several autoimmune diseases, I definitely mask & glove up every time I leave my home.
I completely understand those that don’t want to mask up, however we still need to follow a businesses policies. It used to be, “No Shirt,No Shoes, No Service”. Nowadays that now includes masks.
For me personally it wouldn’t be worth it to fight with a store worker about hipaa/ada rights to someone probably making minimum wage and struggling to keep their jobs.
It would be a different story if a person had NO access to obtain these store items and unable to get them without wearing a mask.
However, that’s not circumstances we are in right now. We have options to perform online shopping even for groceries. There’s also online ordering & curbside car pickup with no mask required. If a store you want to purchase from doesn’t have these options, there’s always instacart and services that will have people go out and personally shop for you whatever you may need. If all else fails hopefully a person has family, friends, acquaintances, neighbors and even Good Samaritans that are offering their shopping services even for free to pickup your items for you that ARE willing to mask up.
So people who don’t want to wear masks have other options in my humble opinion.
I think the real issue will not be about their rights to not wear masks but the possibility of forced mass covid-19 vaccination if and when it comes out. That I have a real issue with and I think that might what we may have to face in the future. I’d rather invest my efforts in fighting that then fighting a poor worker that’s just trying to follow their store policy. Just my 2¢….