CORPORATE CORONAVIRUS VIRTUE SIGNALING:

Well. On July 15th, WalMart announced that customers would henceforth be required to wear masks while shopping in their stores. I noted their announcement with "So much for shopping at WalMart." The next day, I followed up with this post noting that every customer had an equal right to not shop there.

On the 17th, The Blaze noted that the mandatory mask mandate was the brainchild of the Business Roundtable, an "association of chief executive officers of America's leading companies working to promote a thriving U.S. economy and expanded opportunity for all Americans through sound public policy."

The Business Roundtable is a lobby group of bozo CEOs busily virtue-signalling each other to the detriment of their shareholders, employees, and customers. They are the ones who decided that it wasn't enough to make money for their shareholders by creating and selling merchandise that their customers desire; no, their statement on the purpose of a corporation is now to "move away from shareholder primacy (i.e., making money)" and "include commitment to all stakeholders (i.e., social justice)."

On the bright side, by July 25th, WalMart, Home Depot, and other retailers walked back their face mask mandate when the customers they depend on made it perfectly clear that their mandate was a nonstarter.