There is no standart for the masks . So a my thing that covers your fave will do. Don't matter that it offers zero protection .
Statistically, a proportion of the masks worn by a proportion of the people will do a proportion of the job. If those proportions are ANYthing, it will statistically reduce transmission of the virus. If those proportions are ENOUGH, it will reduce Rt below 1 which is what is needed to make the spread of the virus diminish and eventually disappear. I prefer to do my part to help increasing those proportions.
I go to a store I pay for my coffe . No gloves on my hands and no gloves on clerks . When I get change the money from the till that is passed to me by the clerk . At no time is the money sanitized .
Contactless payment. (And in any case, it has been found that transmission by droplets is more significant than transmission by indirect contact.)
I've only used cash a couple of times in the last several months.
See above paragraph about statistics. You can help out ... by using contactless payment.
Why do I give my name and number to Tims . But I can come and go at go at Home Depot or other retailer .
Contact tracing. By the rules, this is only supposed to be if you are staying put for some time ... and it is not possible to wear a mask while eating. So, it makes sense that contact-tracing information is taken at a restaurant, where you are staying potentially in contact with other people for some significant period of time, and where you are eating, which is incompatible with wearing a mask.
Restaurants only have to take contact-tracing information if you are sitting indoors (where there is less air circulation). But if they want it from me from sitting outside (happened once) ... no argument from me.
If you are in a retail establishment, indoors, you should be wearing a mask (see above paragraph about statistics) and you are generally moving about, not staying near any other person for any more than seconds at a time.
If you blindly follow the what you are told that is on you . Just because I don't wear a mask does not mean I'm ATI Vax or flat earth . It means I can make decisions for myself .
Evidently, the decisions that you are making for yourself are to not help to reduce transmission of this virus.
The other choice is to make responsible decisions in the interest of society.
The numbers so low yet now you need to wear a mask .
Ontario is stubbornly unable to keep the numbers below 100-ish new cases per day. Other provinces are seeing increases, and it's quite evident that it's due to people not taking responsible actions. This virus is very transmissible if people don't take actions to reduce its spread. If people stopped doing anything to reduce its spread and went completely back to life before covid ... we would have Florida, or Texas.
I hope you are first to line up for the vaccine coming to your doctor's office soon . After all the government says it's safe and effective . Be a good citizen and follow the rules . Don't think for yourself let the goverment think for you .
I will listen to public health authorities whose JOB it is to sort this out.