Thank you both for your responses.

I do live in the US. In a liberal state. But its up to the counties. The executive for my county has reasons for not mandating masks (its up to the businesses, places like healthcare, colleges, are placing more weight on masks, with retail, it depends on the store, it seems. A lot of stores heres, the employees don't wear a mask and they think they are safe bc they got a vaccine). His logic is that people get vaccines so they don't have to wear masks. So he's trying to get more ppl to get a vaccine, essentially.

Seesaw, I think I caught some of your situation in the other forum. But not all of it. When I get the time I will go back and read it more carefully.