I can’t wait to see a new catagory at People of Walmart!
Oh man, I laughed.
Well, what took so long? That has been the norm in Europe for a while now. I notice that things have become a bit more lax here in Poland; some people don’t wear masks, others just cover their mouths and let their noses peep out. It was stricter at the beginning, with the shops restricting the number of people allowed in, providing disposable gloves or plastic bags in lieu (try paying by card at a POS with your hands in plastic bags), and lottsa lottsa hand sterilizer. These days the gloves are less common, but hand sterilzer is usually provided, and I keep a bottle in the car for use after shopping. The biggest problem is actually the handles of the shopping carts, again, some supermarkets here sterilized those handles every day.
It must be working, as Poland as a whole has a low infection rate, and the smallish town where I live has very few cases, the worst outbreak was in an old peoples’ home. A note to all the “give me liberty” types is that masks, gloves and hand sterilizer IF USED PROPERLY do reduce the infection rate.
Say no more.
Good luck with that. My state just made masks mandatory. And my state is red ol’ Arkansas (i.e. where Walmart started). I’m actually thinking Walmart did this to get out ahead of the anouncement by the governor.
Got a couple mad people on Facebook spreading lies which I corrected. Tried to get them to realize that it’s those who believe in conspiracy theories who are the actual sheep.
I’m predicting other states with surges will follow Arkansas’s path.
Hutchinson (Ark. Gov.) Should’ve mandated masks 2 weeks ago. Every state around Arkansas was exploding.
I go to my Diabetic clinic in Texarkana. I’ve done tele-visits for a month. I’m too afraid to go there.
But the policy is for Walmarts nationwide.
Some folks in my old Wyoming town lost their sh*t over Walmart’s mask requirement and vowed to take their business elsewhere. Now the only other grocery store in town has also mandated masks, there are no other big box stores in town, and the next town is a long drive away.
I think we’re about to see what it looks like when people implode.
Get ready for the confederate flag face masks!
And so the mask wars begin.
Around here Walmart is the only game in town.
Fine by me, just wear a fucking mask inside.
You’re right. I was on my way out of the store when the maskless woman was turned away, and out of curiosity I asked the employee about it. She said it wasn’t just them, it’s every store now. But this was apparently in reference to a joint agreement on a common bylaw among the mayors of the GTHA municipalities (Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area), not a provincial law. Many other major Ontario cities have also joined the mask mandate.
I predict Trump will make a big production about masks.
He’ll claim he invented them, biggly.
And how brilliant he was.
Here in NW Idaho that would include 1 in every 5 supermarket (or Walmart) employees at work inside the store. I struggle not to say anything lest I get punched or shot.
When the mask mandate started in Washington, you would still periodically see people inside stores who were just ignoring it, and the stores were frankly too fearful to do anything about it (both for the employees’ safety but also for offending customers who were anti-mask.) Stores were required to enforce the rules, but the reality is that they often did not. And I understand it was much, much worse in more conservative parts of the state.
Now, I think the major stores are realizing that by catering to a vocal but very small minority of anti-mask agitators, they’ve alienated millions of regular people who just want everyone to do their (very small) part to minimize this pandemic. And who want to just be able to do their shopping in relative safety. And those millions of people have other options: Costco has been enforcing masks for months now, and the issue goes away with delivery services. Now that they’ve figured that out, it’s game over for the anti-mask types. At least with the major national retailers.
(Plus, unless McConnell gets his way, I’ve got to assume that by failing to enforce mask orders, those stores have opened themselves up to tort liabilities from any employee who gets covid at work. I have to admit a fair amount of hope that businesses that have acted extremely irresponsibly during this pandemic [looking at you, Disney] face billions of dollars in lawsuits before this is all over.)
Actually, every grocery store I’ve been to has at least 1 or 2 people defiantly letting their masks dangle off one ear or down over their chin. And most 7-Elevens are a joke, except for the one a couple blocks from my house (thankfully). Hopefully we’re continuing to move closer to full mask usage.
Yesterday, however, I was at the Fred Meyer in Redmond (a very wealthy area) and every single person was masked. I had to go back again twice to get a prescription straightened out, and each time, full mask usage. It was great.
I’ve noticed wealthier neighborhoods tend to have higher mask usage around here.
The use of the word actually makes me think you’re disagreeing with something I’d written, but I’m unclear what. What you wrote has mostly been my experience, but my last trip to Safeway saw literally everyone masked. Not sure if that’s a common experience now or not - between my wife and I we’re there about once a week. So only once a fortnight on average for me.
7/11 is the store that’s open one day a year where they give away a free slurpee, right? But they canceled it for this year!
They have been for months here. In fact, they are required for every store or anything else you go to, and have been since March. I guess this isn’t true everywhere (in fact, I know it’s not in Arizona, or at least it’s not across the board), though hard to understand why people are in such a tizzy about wearing a freaking mask…though from what I’ve heard people talking about, there doesn’t seem to be much understanding of what the masks are really for, though, again, this seems like a no brainer.
Sorry, bad choice of words, not disagreeing.
I also choose words badly when I need coffee 
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