How to Reconcile Objecting to Mask Wearing in a Store While Recognizing the Property Rights of the Store

At the post,  The Greatest Act of Resistance I Have Seen Against COVID-19 Hysteria, Frank D. raises an important question:

Again, I agree with everything she is saying, so assuming the store policy is "no mask/no service", how do we defend this womans actions?

A few of the commenters made important comments in response:

The NAPster notes:

[C]ontrary to popular belief, libertarians are also regular members of society, so we can criticize decisions made by private businesses.

Indeed, there is nothing wrong with us vociferously objecting to a company policy. Large corporations even have customer complaint departments to handle complaints. There is nothing wrong about complaining about a policy. 

The Contractor adds:

It would be a fun survey to conduct, asking businesses whether they would require, recommend, or ignore health mandates for covid if no state bullies were fining and harassing them.

There is no such thing right now as a business making a private property decision. If they don't require covid compliance, they get threatened with fines and loss of license. I am going through this right now with my daughter's private, for-profit kindergarten.

This is very true. Signs requiring masks may just be a way of corporate signaling to keep the government off of the backs of corporations, the same way we see Black Lives Matter signs on the windows of retailers or the way German retailers had Nazi signs on their windows.

Under current circumstances, it is difficult to determine what corporate intent really is. 

In San Francisco, when an employee approaches me and asks me to put my mask over my nose and I challenge them, they are very inconsistent with their explanations for why they are making the request. They really are confused midget-Maos.

The few times, I have raised the stakes and brought in upper management or corporate, upper levels always apologize to me profusely and tell me they will provide employees with more training.

Alan Stevos, who contacts upper management more frequently than I do, has regular success in walking into stores unmasked.

So at this point, my default thinking is that upper management isn't serious about the mask mandate and the employee is just flexing some midget-Mao muscles on his own. If I were to be provided with evidence that such a mask mandate was a part of actual corporate policy, I would reluctantly pull my mask over my nose and get what I wanted quickly if it was important to me or not visit the store at all.

At present in San Francisco, there are only two venues that appear to go over the top in their demands which indicate they are from higher-ups. Cole's Hardware and The Irish Bank Pub both have lost me as a customer permanently. The bizarre cult sanitation rules at these two places are over the top.

By the way, in my continuing effort to probe the system to see what works and when, I have recently discovered that the best way to deal with a midget-Mao in a large store is this way.

When I hear the "Sir could you put the mask over your nose?" I don't look at them but wave in a dismissive fashion and say, "I have a medical exemption," (which is the case, as Michael Edelstein says, I suffer from CS, common sense) and then walk away.  This lack of direct exchange with them seems to leave them flummoxed. These midget-Maos apparently don't have the courage to challenge me a second time. Contrast this to the past, when I "stood my ground" and debated them. Then it never ended, they always responded even if it completely contradicted what they had said in an earlier part of the back-and-forth.

Just diss them with as little recognition as possible, that seems to put them back in their place as menial unpleasant people who don't deserve respect. 

-RW