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Newsflash, it never stopped. In WI, many places here are just completely ignoring this ever happened. A lot of businesses openly challenge the law and i think like over half the sheriff's here signed a petition saying they wouldn't enforce the governor's mask mandate.

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I am really baffled. Ok, opening or not opening businesses is a big topic with a lot of economic ramifications.

But Masks? Why can't people extend this simple courtesy to the rest of the population? People follow traffic rules so as not to kill others or themselves. Wearing a mask is at best an inconvenience. I don't understand this at all.

It's an act of protest against what they perceive as "the liberal nanny state". Every mask deliberately unworn is a raised middle finger, a statement of "I refuse to do anything you ask me to do".

It really is childish and contrarian, but that is what politics have become, a black/white view of all issues, with a sports team-level fanaticism to always follow "my team", while demonizing "your team".

And one party in particular has been fanning the flames like crazy.

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