# Share your Covidiot stories **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 29, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854 "2020-04-29T22:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 344
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/344 "2020-08-15T03:13:36Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Huh??? The sheriff is banning his officers and people entering the sheriff’s department from wearing masks. He’s not banning everyone from wearing masks. Officers are just as likely to encounter people wearing masks as they were before sheriff’s edict. What the sheriff wrote: > [@](#): > > “In light of the current events when it comes to the sentiment and/or hatred toward law enforcement in our country today, this is being done to ensure there is clear communication and for identification purposes of any individual walking into a lobby,” Woods wrote. “All of our lobbies have glass barriers between you and them that the virus cannot magically go thru.” Cite: > **[Florida sheriff orders deputies not to wear masks, bans civilians in masks...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-sheriff-orders-deputies-not-wear-masks-bans-civilians-masks-n1236502)** > > "Now, I can already hear the whining and just so you know I did not make this decision easily," Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said in a memo to staff. ETA: BTW, there’s a separate thread on this subject: > [@Flordia Sheriff bans masks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flordia-sheriff-bans-masks/917996): > > The sheriff of Marion County, Florida has implemented a mask ban. Deputies aren’t allowed to wear a mask while on duty (other than a few exceptions) and NO ONE (civilians included) is allowed to wear one while at the station. You’ll be asked to leave if you have it on. Is this a publicity stunt? Especially given that he allows his deputies to wear them in certain situations, like responding to a nursing home, so I assume he understands the risk. What bugs me the most is that this seems like a … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854)._