I drove to the grocery store this morning, shopped and returned. I didn’t wear a mask and I was not asked about vax status.
And neither were you.
Not yet, you haven’t. But that’s the entire point of this article, that it is coming.
Where you got confused, apparently, is that the writer decided to narrate in the present tense for something that has not yet occurred. That, and speaking of past events in the present tense, are pet peeves if mine. If only my English teachers could see me now...I have become a full-fledged Grammar Nazi.