- Some shoppers refuse to wear masks or face coverings for political reasons.
- In some cases, confrontations between store workers and customers have resulted in deadly violence.
For ideological, not health, reasons, masks have become the latest flashpoint in the culture wars, and it is not always neatly broken into Left vs. Right either, though anti-maskers tend to be mostly Rightward Trump supporters.
Read the rest of the story HERE:

At www.businessinsider.com
Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)