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Originally Posted by Chris

I don't think it's tokenism. If the supermarkets really do the maximum permissible under the Equality Act it will be enough to force the majority of anti-maskers to cave in rather than tell a direct lie about having a disability. After all, if you're taking a principled stand, what's the point lying about it?

They should be able to significantly reduce the problem of unmasked people in their stores, without doing anything illegal.

It's not token intent, but due to the laws it becomes a token gesture. I believe the vast majority will just go 'i have a disability....' and then swan off into the store.