For Many Workers, Change in Mask Policy Is a Nightmare

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Kroger supermarket in Yorktown, Va., is in a county where mask wearing can be casual at best. Yet for months, the store urged patrons to cover their noses and mouths, and almost everyone complied.

“People don’t like to wear masks here,” said Janet Wainwright, a meat cutter at the store, “but very few people would go without it.”

That changed in mid-May after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised vaccinated Americans that they could go maskless in most indoor settings. The next week, the store told employees that they could no longer ask customers to cover their faces. So mask use plummeted, and the anxiety of Ms. Wainwright and other workers shot up.

“We just feel like we’re sitting ducks,” said Ms. Wainwright, who estimated that far fewer than half of patrons wore masks on a recent Sunday. “Now it’s just a free-for-all.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/for-many-workers-change-in-mask-policy-is-a-nightmare/ar-AAKCMDs

[luvs2sing]

1. Really???

Here in Ohio, in every Kroger store I’ve been to in the past year virtually all the customers have been masked and less than half of the employees. And for the past couple weeks, with restrictions being eased, still almost all customers are masked, but every employee is unmasked.

In theory, I want to support grocery workers, but in reality, they have consistently been much more of a threat to customers than the other way around.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. Maybe where you live.

Here, store workers were much more compliant than customers. It just depends who the employees are and if they have a good manager.

[underpants]

2. Hey! Yorktown!

Boo! Yorktown 😖

[Ace Rothstein]

3. Are they vaccinated?

If so, they have little to worry about. If not, go get vaccinated. Did people expect mask wearing to last forever?

[Yavin4]

5. Anyone that has to work with the public should be vaccinated.

That's their best protection, not masks.

Mandating that people wear masks cuts down on the number of customers in stores and overall economic activity. We have to re-open and get back to normal or else it will become too difficult to do so.

[Wingus Dingus]

6. Hopefully they've been vaccinated and will be fine. But where I live

employees were often less compliant than customers in stores and businesses. I'm talking at the height of the pandemic last fall and winter--employee dick-noses and chin straps on the workers ringing me up at Lowes, Walmart, small businesses.

[Tree Lady]

7. Depends on where you shop

My co op still has everyone wearing masks, Trader Joe's you don't have to if vaccinated but almost everyone in store wears one, Costco still most wear one, but then went to get something on sale at Food 4 Less never been there before and at least half had no mask.

I am in conservative city in blue state but also a retirement city so more older folks.

[roamer65]

8. Our company policy came out today.

Has to be one of the stupidest policies I have seen from them yet.