so, i decided on saturday night that i'd do a grocery run yesterday, so that i don't need to be in the stores during the initial rollout of what appears to be substantive mask-wearing regulations. i overheard several people claiming they were in the store on sunday for that reason, and it in truth may have stimulated a mild grocery run. but, the evidence of that was mixed; there were long line-ups in some stores, and nobody at all in other stores. this would have been limited to windsor-essex.

so, that's what i did yesterday, and it took all day. i have some cleaning to do today, and should be back to what i was doing tonight or tomorrow.

i'm not sure what to expect. while i would, overall, expect minimal adoption and lax enforcement, at least to start, it's unclear what kind of force the county health authority is intending to use, or what authority it even has to use it. further, the wildcard in the mess is businesses that try to enforce it on unwilling customers, and any conflict that results from that.

i do not intend to follow any laws regarding mask use. but, i decided it was a good idea to let it play out a little before i decided how to react, if at all.

i more or less expect the law to be widely ignored and the potential for conflict to be low, but we'll see what happens.