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[00:15.680 --> 00:16.680]  Welcome back, my friends.
[00:16.680 --> 00:23.520]  I'm Dave Champion, and I want to talk with you about what seems to be an emerging issue.
[00:23.520 --> 00:29.160]  When I say an emerging issue, what I mean is, as states are ending their mask mandate
[00:29.160 --> 00:35.880]  and opening their businesses back up, there's a phenomenon that's irking a good percentage
[00:35.880 --> 00:42.340]  of the community, and that is that private businesses are saying, we don't care if there's
[00:42.340 --> 00:43.920]  no mask mandate.
[00:43.920 --> 00:48.320]  If you want to shop in our business, then you still need to wear a mask.
[00:48.320 --> 00:51.180]  So obviously, that's noxious.
[00:51.180 --> 00:54.280]  The question is, what do we do about it?
[00:54.280 --> 00:59.280]  Let's go back to, first of all, does the business have the right to do that?
[00:59.280 --> 01:00.280]  They do.
[01:00.280 --> 01:03.000]  First of all, I want to talk a little bit about the law just very briefly, then we'll
[01:03.000 --> 01:07.680]  get into what the business can and cannot do, and then we'll talk about what we can
[01:07.680 --> 01:11.040]  do to show them what the correct path is.
[01:11.040 --> 01:18.620]  Okay, so first of all, I've read the emergency measure statutes in a number of states, not
[01:18.620 --> 01:19.880]  all of them by a long shot.
[01:19.880 --> 01:20.880]  We're talking about a handful.
[01:21.480 --> 01:22.480]  I'm going to use Nevada's.
[01:22.480 --> 01:27.400]  Obviously, I've read every word of the one in Nevada because I live here, and it provides
[01:27.400 --> 01:36.680]  an exemption from mask wearing for religious purposes, or if you have a physical or mental
[01:36.680 --> 01:41.520]  disability that prevents you from wearing a mask.
[01:41.520 --> 01:46.360]  Those provisions are there not necessarily because the governor or the politicians who
[01:46.360 --> 01:49.980]  passed the statute originally because they wanted it there.
[01:50.080 --> 01:54.740]  It's there because it then is in compliance with federal law because the last thing the
[01:54.740 --> 01:59.260]  state wants is to roll something out and say, here's our emergency measures, you better
[01:59.260 --> 02:04.620]  listen to us, and have the local U.S. attorney for the government come along and say, no,
[02:04.620 --> 02:09.020]  you're violating federal law and there's a federal supremacy clause, so you can't do
[02:09.020 --> 02:10.020]  that.
[02:10.020 --> 02:14.700]  You are trespassing upon an area of law that is reserved to Congress.
[02:14.700 --> 02:17.380]  Because of that, there are the exemptions.
[02:17.380 --> 02:25.100]  Out of those exemptions, a business can say, yeah, you have to have a mask to come in here.
[02:25.100 --> 02:28.780]  This is not like ... Somebody said to me the other day, somebody said, oh, so they can
[02:28.780 --> 02:35.860]  tell black people they can't come in or white people ... No, no, don't.
[02:35.860 --> 02:41.540]  I will say that those are all controlled by federal law.
[02:41.540 --> 02:44.060]  I'm not going to go through ... I did it the other day.
[02:44.060 --> 02:46.980]  I'm not going to go back through the 14th Amendment, the Civil Rights Act, blah, blah,
[02:46.980 --> 02:47.980]  blah.
[02:47.980 --> 02:54.700]  Okay, so just know that the medical exemption, the religious exemption, the mental disability
[02:54.700 --> 02:59.900]  exemption, they can't stop you from going in because you're black or white or Christian
[02:59.900 --> 03:00.900]  or Muslim.
[03:00.900 --> 03:01.900]  Okay.
[03:01.900 --> 03:08.940]  All that falls within the same category, which is the business cannot violate federal law.
[03:08.940 --> 03:13.420]  That's a list of the kind of things that a business cannot do.
[03:13.420 --> 03:15.020]  What can a business do?
[03:15.060 --> 03:21.660]  Well, the business can do anything that's not in that small area we just discussed that's
[03:21.660 --> 03:23.500]  controlled by Congress.
[03:23.500 --> 03:26.940]  Other than that, the business can do anything they want.
[03:26.940 --> 03:31.620]  There's a trend that's gotten huge in the last couple of years, and that is young girls
[03:31.620 --> 03:37.540]  will show up at a place like Walmart or Target, and they'll be wearing their pajama bottoms
[03:37.540 --> 03:38.540]  and slippers.
[03:38.540 --> 03:39.540]  Okay.
[03:39.540 --> 03:41.460]  Now, I don't get it, but I don't have to.
[03:41.460 --> 03:43.380]  I'm not 17 or 20 or 21.
[03:43.380 --> 03:44.380]  I don't have to get it.
[03:44.380 --> 03:46.860]  It's another thing, and they do it, and that's fine.
[03:46.860 --> 03:50.820]  For instance, we'll just use Walmart since it's large and national.
[03:50.820 --> 03:55.620]  Walmart could say, no one can cross the threshold.
[03:55.620 --> 04:00.380]  No one can come into our business unless they're wearing pajama bottoms and slippers.
[04:00.380 --> 04:05.660]  Now, of course, they wouldn't do that because they would lose billions of dollars over a
[04:05.660 --> 04:06.660]  couple of years.
[04:06.660 --> 04:07.660]  They would never do that.
[04:07.660 --> 04:12.500]  It's a poor business decision, but there's nothing in law stopping them from doing that.
[04:13.180 --> 04:20.660]  There's also nothing in law stopping them from saying, unless you have an exemption,
[04:20.660 --> 04:22.620]  you have to wear a mask to come into the business.
[04:22.620 --> 04:27.140]  There's nothing that's violative of law concerning a business doing this.
[04:27.140 --> 04:30.020]  We need to get that button down very clear.
[04:30.020 --> 04:33.020]  There's nothing violative of the law.
[04:33.020 --> 04:37.460]  Now, how do we change their position?
[04:37.460 --> 04:42.140]  Major corporations exist to generate maximum revenue.
[04:42.780 --> 04:46.660]  There's no such thing as a CEO would go nowhere.
[04:46.660 --> 04:53.140]  A president would be fired if they said to the shareholders, look, we had a choice.
[04:53.140 --> 04:54.420]  There was no mask mandate in the sale.
[04:54.420 --> 04:56.180]  We had a choice.
[04:56.180 --> 05:01.020]  Make all the customers wear masks and lose a bunch of money or let people in without
[05:01.020 --> 05:03.460]  masks and make money.
[05:03.460 --> 05:07.980]  We chose the option that was going to cause us to have diminished revenue.
[05:07.980 --> 05:11.100]  Any corporate officer who said that would be gone.
[05:11.100 --> 05:17.140]  The issue is profit, is revenue, understanding that revenue is the issue and that they want
[05:17.140 --> 05:20.500]  the maximum amount of revenue possible.
[05:20.500 --> 05:26.220]  The equation for a lot of these corporations is, okay, so we have like, don't mandate
[05:26.220 --> 05:30.780]  masks in our store or mandate masks in our store.
[05:30.780 --> 05:34.500]  Which one is going to make us the most amount of money?
[05:34.500 --> 05:36.940]  Now, some corporations will do some research.
[05:36.940 --> 05:37.940]  Most won't.
[05:37.940 --> 05:38.940]  They're just going to make a decision on what they perceive.
[05:39.420 --> 05:41.740]  I'm going to tell you what I think a lot of them are thinking.
[05:41.740 --> 05:42.740]  I don't know if it's for a fact.
[05:42.740 --> 05:43.740]  Let me be clear.
[05:43.740 --> 05:46.380]  I think this is what a lot of them are thinking.
[05:46.380 --> 05:54.940]  They're saying the majority of Americans believe that masks do something.
[05:54.940 --> 05:55.940]  Do something.
[05:55.940 --> 05:59.140]  Whatever the fuck that means.
[05:59.140 --> 06:04.260]  I think a lot of these corporate executives, they don't even care whether wearing masks
[06:04.260 --> 06:05.820]  has any impact at all.
[06:05.820 --> 06:07.300]  That's not their equation.
[06:07.300 --> 06:13.540]  Their equation is, okay, so if 70% of the population thinks masks are cool, then that
[06:13.540 --> 06:17.260]  means only 30% don't think masks are cool.
[06:17.260 --> 06:21.980]  Then when that 30%, we have to consider how many are really rebellious and won't shop
[06:21.980 --> 06:25.620]  here anymore if we insist that they wear masks.
[06:25.620 --> 06:29.260]  You see how the math of that works out.
[06:29.260 --> 06:39.260]  In order to compel a profit-driven enterprise into not making you wear a face diaper, you
[06:39.260 --> 06:44.820]  have to show them that it's counterproductive to their revenue goals to insist on it.
[06:44.820 --> 06:45.940]  How do we do that?
[06:45.940 --> 06:53.380]  First of all, there's probably no absolute concrete method to do this.
[06:53.380 --> 06:57.500]  It is an issue of perception.
[06:57.500 --> 07:01.580]  Here's my suggestion, and I don't pretend to have all the answers here.
[07:01.580 --> 07:09.840]  My suggestion is to use the power of social media to make clear to that corporation there
[07:09.840 --> 07:11.340]  is a cost.
[07:11.340 --> 07:18.220]  Remember, when I said a moment ago how many of the anti-maskers are really up in arms
[07:18.220 --> 07:21.220]  of rebellious, same thing applies to the maskers.
[07:21.220 --> 07:23.860]  If suddenly a company says, you don't have to wear a mask to shop here, how many people
[07:23.860 --> 07:25.500]  who believe in masks would stop shopping?
[07:25.500 --> 07:27.620]  Yeah, the number is probably very small.
[07:27.620 --> 07:34.540]  If they believe in masks, they're probably going to think, well, I got mine on, I guess.
[07:34.540 --> 07:35.540]  Yeah, knuckleheads.
[07:35.540 --> 07:38.420]  All right, so first of all, I should say go somewhere else.
[07:38.420 --> 07:40.380]  That's number one, right?
[07:40.380 --> 07:44.780]  But like in my small town, options are limited.
[07:44.780 --> 07:49.780]  Go someplace else sometimes is not a viable alternative.
[07:49.780 --> 07:53.420]  I've had people say to me, I don't shop at Walmart, I don't understand why you shop at
[07:53.420 --> 07:54.420]  Walmart.
[07:54.420 --> 07:55.420]  It's a terrible company.
[07:55.420 --> 08:01.420]  But without getting into whether that is true or false, the issue is this, because I live
[08:01.420 --> 08:07.340]  in such a small town with so few options, there are things I can either go to Walmart
[08:07.340 --> 08:13.180]  and buy those things, which is 12 minutes down the road, or I can do a three-hour round
[08:13.180 --> 08:18.060]  trip into Vegas and back so that I don't go to Walmart for something that's going to cost
[08:18.060 --> 08:19.060]  me $1.98.
[08:19.060 --> 08:20.060]  You know what I'm saying?
[08:21.060 --> 08:26.980]  So some places it's inconvenient, some places it's truly problematic to simply say, don't
[08:26.980 --> 08:28.620]  go there, go somewhere else.
[08:28.620 --> 08:33.220]  That's the circumstance to which I'm speaking, because obviously, if you've got store A that
[08:33.220 --> 08:38.900]  has what you want and store B that has what you want, one of them insists on masks.
[08:38.900 --> 08:41.540]  One of them says, nah, whatever you want to do, man, that's cool.
[08:41.540 --> 08:43.280]  Go to the one that best suits you, right?
[08:43.280 --> 08:47.400]  Whether you're a masker, whether you're a non-masker, go to the one that makes you happy.
[08:47.400 --> 08:52.860]  In the locales where it is not possible to just go somewhere else, how do you influence
[08:52.860 --> 08:53.860]  that retailer?
[08:53.860 --> 08:57.360]  How do you make it clear to that company that there is a financial consequence?
[08:57.360 --> 09:02.040]  What you should do is set up social media pages, and I don't mean just on Facebook,
[09:02.040 --> 09:06.760]  I don't mean just on MeWe, I mean everywhere you can, set up a social media page.
[09:06.760 --> 09:07.760]  I'm just going to use Walmart.
[09:07.760 --> 09:12.960]  I'm not attacking Walmart, they're just the most well-known name out there as far as retail
[09:12.960 --> 09:15.040]  establishments are concerned, coast to coast.
[09:15.040 --> 09:18.040]  We're going to call it Anywhere USA, that's the town.
[09:18.040 --> 09:27.200]  You might set up a Facebook group called Boycott Walmart Anywhere USA.
[09:27.200 --> 09:32.400]  You're naming the retail establishment, you're naming the locale where you want people to
[09:32.400 --> 09:35.640]  engage with you on a boycott.
[09:35.640 --> 09:38.480]  The first thing you want to do before you do this is you want to do a search, you want
[09:38.480 --> 09:41.480]  to find out if there are other groups already in existence.
[09:41.480 --> 09:46.520]  The reason I say that is if there's a viable boycott group already in existence for your
[09:46.520 --> 09:51.440]  purpose, you probably want to join that group and encourage your friends to join that group
[09:51.440 --> 09:57.000]  because what's going to water down the message is if you've got 50 boycott pages, and each
[09:57.000 --> 10:03.680]  of them have, I don't know, 57 people following that group, and so you send Walmart's customer
[10:03.680 --> 10:08.800]  service department a screenshot of a single group with 57 people, yeah, you're not going
[10:08.800 --> 10:10.200]  to impress anybody.
[10:10.240 --> 10:16.000]  If you have a group in a small locale such as the town I live in, and it's a boycott
[10:16.000 --> 10:20.600]  this and you've got a couple thousand people in your group, that's going to get somebody's
[10:20.600 --> 10:25.440]  attention at the corporation and they're going to start looking at what the financial cost
[10:25.440 --> 10:27.600]  is to continue to do this.
[10:27.600 --> 10:32.160]  I should say if you're doing this on Facebook and you're in a state where there is currently
[10:32.360 --> 10:42.360]  a mask mandate, Facebook being anti-free speech, anti-civil disobedience, anti-rational thought,
[10:42.360 --> 10:48.240]  anti-logic, anti-science, Facebook will probably take that group down.
[10:48.240 --> 10:53.160]  So you want to do this, you can do it on any other platform freely wherever you are, just
[10:53.160 --> 10:58.120]  not on Facebook because they are the people I just described, but you can do it on Facebook
[10:58.120 --> 11:03.400]  too if there is no mask mandate in your state.
[11:03.400 --> 11:07.200]  I'm no fan of Facebook, but I continually refer to them here because the fact of the
[11:07.200 --> 11:13.480]  matter is there are exponentially more people on Facebook than any other social media platform.
[11:13.480 --> 11:18.120]  So if you're trying to achieve this goal, yeah, you kind of sort of have to make a pact
[11:18.120 --> 11:22.160]  with the devil, you got to do it on Facebook and other social media sites as well because
[11:22.160 --> 11:27.760]  you can take screenshots there and send them all over to whatever retailer you're targeting.
[11:27.760 --> 11:29.320]  I'm going to stick with Facebook for a moment.
[11:29.320 --> 11:34.600]  When you've created a group in Facebook, there's an option to, there's a button, blue button
[11:34.600 --> 11:38.080]  that says invite, and you invite people to join that group.
[11:38.080 --> 11:44.960]  So obviously if you know that your Aunt Betty is totally into masks, don't bother to invite
[11:44.960 --> 11:51.560]  her, but invite anyone that you know does not approve of being forced to wear a mask
[11:51.560 --> 11:56.580]  and anyone who's positioned on the matter, you simply don't know, invite them.
[11:56.580 --> 12:01.700]  Then you want to put a message together and pin it to the top of the group.
[12:01.700 --> 12:04.180]  So when somebody goes to that group, it's the very first thing that they see.
[12:04.180 --> 12:08.980]  It should be a brief description of what you're trying to accomplish and why, and then it
[12:08.980 --> 12:13.940]  should talk about once you've joined this group, please hit the blue invite button and
[12:13.940 --> 12:16.120]  invite all your friends to join.
[12:16.120 --> 12:20.480]  So what you're talking about here is you want to, over several weeks, you want to grow this
[12:20.480 --> 12:23.540]  group to thousands and thousands of people.
[12:23.540 --> 12:31.140]  And then the really important part here is you must, absolutely must share it with the
[12:31.140 --> 12:35.380]  corporation, that it exists, what the numbers are, the traffic on the page and so forth.
[12:35.380 --> 12:43.220]  You have to make sure that you contact the retailer and let the retailer know there is
[12:43.220 --> 12:49.300]  a boycott because they're insisting people wear a mask when the state has no mask mandate.
[12:49.300 --> 12:55.220]  Additionally, you should be encouraging people by posting to the group to send emails to
[12:55.220 --> 12:58.340]  the corporation in their personal capacity.
[12:58.340 --> 13:02.820]  So if you've got, for the sake of argument, 1,700 people in the group, you should be posting
[13:02.820 --> 13:07.860]  in that group, hey, listen, every single one of you should be sending a personal email
[13:07.860 --> 13:12.740]  to this company letting them know that you are not spending any money there and here's
[13:12.740 --> 13:17.980]  the customer service address or here's the email address for the VP of Finance or whatever
[13:17.980 --> 13:18.980]  you got.
[13:19.060 --> 13:24.020]  You want that company, every morning, when they start looking at the information that's
[13:24.020 --> 13:28.020]  coming in, whether it be emails to somebody's desk, whether it be customer service sitting
[13:28.020 --> 13:31.220]  down and reviewing what's coming over the night, you want to make sure that every day
[13:31.220 --> 13:37.940]  the message they're receiving is we're making less money because of this policy.
[13:37.940 --> 13:43.300]  Also, when you have a group and you put up some sort of a post, you can also promote
[13:43.300 --> 13:44.660]  that post, okay?
[13:44.660 --> 13:47.860]  So you can actually pay, it's very inexpensive on Facebook.
[13:47.860 --> 13:55.220]  You can actually pay to have Facebook send that post out to literally tens of thousands
[13:55.220 --> 13:59.140]  of people, whether you're encouraging them to send an email, whether you're encouraging
[13:59.140 --> 14:01.780]  them to come on over and join your group, whatever.
[14:01.780 --> 14:06.820]  It's pennies on the dollar to reach tens of thousands of people through Facebook that
[14:06.820 --> 14:07.820]  way.
[14:07.820 --> 14:09.540]  I'm not sure how that works on other platforms.
[14:09.540 --> 14:11.340]  You should certainly look into it.
[14:11.340 --> 14:15.780]  At this point, you might be saying, that sounds like some work.
[14:15.780 --> 14:17.860]  That's an active campaign.
[14:17.860 --> 14:21.140]  Yeah, it is.
[14:21.140 --> 14:25.540]  If you don't have a choice, in other words, you can't just go somewhere else, if you don't
[14:25.540 --> 14:32.460]  have a choice and this is noxious to you, it being a retailer requiring masks when there's
[14:32.460 --> 14:36.820]  no mask mandate, if that's noxious to you and it's noxious to your fellow community
[14:36.820 --> 14:40.900]  members, then yeah, you're going to have to spend a little time and effort.
[14:40.900 --> 14:45.260]  If it's important to you, you're going to have to spend a little time and effort going
[14:45.260 --> 14:49.980]  through the steps to create this campaign, to influence the retailer at their corporate
[14:49.980 --> 14:50.980]  office.
[14:50.980 --> 14:57.460]  It does little good, if any, to ask to see the store manager and say, I'm going to your
[14:57.460 --> 15:00.740]  competitor now because of what you're doing.
[15:00.740 --> 15:02.180]  That's like a onesie thing.
[15:02.180 --> 15:07.700]  They've got hundreds and hundreds or perhaps thousands of customers in a day and one guy
[15:07.700 --> 15:09.860]  says, I'm taking my money elsewhere.
[15:09.860 --> 15:11.420]  That's not going to be persuasive.
[15:11.420 --> 15:18.500]  You want to target the corporate office and it has to be an organized campaign.
[15:18.500 --> 15:19.820]  Where does that leave us on this?
[15:19.820 --> 15:29.020]  It leaves us with this, either suck it up, Cupcake, or decide to initiate a campaign.
[15:29.020 --> 15:33.580]  Again, I think one of the most important things that you can do at the outset when you're
[15:33.580 --> 15:39.940]  like, yeah, I'm the guy who will organize the campaign because this shit does not fly
[15:39.940 --> 15:40.940]  with me.
[15:41.700 --> 15:46.580]  But make sure you search for other groups with the same exact agenda on whatever social
[15:46.580 --> 15:48.020]  media platform you're on.
[15:48.020 --> 15:52.420]  Make sure you search for other groups so you don't splinter your efforts because if another
[15:52.420 --> 15:54.860]  group is already involved, you can reach out to the admins.
[15:54.860 --> 15:57.700]  You can say, hey, I really feel passionately about this.
[15:57.700 --> 15:58.700]  I'd like to participate.
[15:58.700 --> 15:59.780]  I'd like to promote some stuff.
[15:59.780 --> 16:02.580]  I'd like to throw 20 bucks at it here, 30 bucks at it there.
[16:02.580 --> 16:05.300]  Can you make me an admin so I can do that and so forth?
[16:05.300 --> 16:07.940]  You can coordinate with them.
[16:07.940 --> 16:11.140]  Once you join the group, even though you didn't create the group, you could still use the
[16:11.140 --> 16:13.340]  invite button and invite all your friends.
[16:13.340 --> 16:14.940]  You get what I'm saying.
[16:14.940 --> 16:18.980]  Either suck it up, Cupcake, or prepare to put some work in.
[16:18.980 --> 16:19.580]  Make sense?