← Return to Masks: How do you encourage people that they help?

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@zeiracorp Yes, businesses can ask people who will not comply with mask requirements to leave, and in most places it is probably a misdemeanor not to do so. But here in the Twin Cities, our police are stretched beyond the limit by other events of the day, and have made it clear they cannot respond to such calls. In other parts of the country, law enforcement has been known to openly mock and/or defy masking requirements (the political thing again, I suppose.)

Finally, business owners are fearful of violence with so many people passionate about the matter, and nerves frayed by the pandemic and current events, and will not enforce or ask their employees to do it. I just leave businesses where people are not masked - even my favorite local hardware store, where everyone except the owners are masked and practicing safe distancing.
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@sueinmn @zeiracorp. There's a video going around about this woman who went to Trafer Joe's, at first she had a mask on so she was let in. Then she took off her mask, when the staff told her

@sueinmn, Yes, sadly I live in one of those states where law officials, some elected officials and too many citizens mock and defy masking requirements. Good for you for leaving a business where people are unmasked! I may be overly cautious but rather that than risk exposure to this deadly virus.