Roiledwater
Oh well if you’re going to threaten the employees ok then.
The mayor of an Oklahoma city amended an emergency declaration requiring customers to wear face masks while inside businesses after store employees were threatened with violence.
Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce announced the change Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the declaration took effect.
“In the short time beginning on May 1, 2020, that face coverings have been required for entry into stores/restaurants, store employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse,” City Manager Norman McNickle said in a statement. “In addition, there has been one threat of violence using a firearm.”
So rules that protect public safety are no longer rules that protect public safety, but violations of the rights of The Sovereign Individual. The divine Ego is more important than any number of people who want to avoid getting the virus.
McNickle said that many of the people who objected to wearing the masks have “the mistaken belief the requirement is unconstitutional.” He said it’s upsetting that while people have the right to exercise their beliefs, they are also putting others at risk.
People have the right to exercise their beliefs up to a point. The “belief” that they get to refuse to wear a mask to protect others from a deadly virus is miles past that point.
“The wearing of face coverings is little inconvenience to protect both the wearer and anyone with whom they have contact,” McNickle said, condemning those who threatened violence. “It is unfortunate and distressing that those who refuse and threaten violence are so self-absorbed as to not follow what is a simple show of respect and kindness to others.
It is. It’s one of the very worst things about the rotting pumpkin in the White House, this encouraging and boosting and cheering on of hostile threatening violent selfishness as a principle of life.
Your right to swing your fist ends at the end of my nose – Oliver Wendall Holmes, former Supreme Court Justice.
I work in retail (in an ‘essential’ industry). We’re requiring masks, wiping down every surface we can reach after every customer comes through the checkout lines, limiting occupancy (causing a line out front, which is spaced per distancing guidelines) and also mandating entrance/exits be used as such–you can’t come in the exit just because you were lucky enough to have someone coming out as you were nearby, and you can’t leave through the entrance.
99 percent of all customers have been on-board with these requirements. The ones who complain, or who insist on trying to break the rules in some fashion are rare, but they are also very vocal.
(More common than willful rule-breakers are the folks who still haven’t fully integrated the new reality even though they seem to be trying to comply–touching hard surfaces with bare hands, wearing their masks under their noses so they can breathe more comfortably, and so on. Those folks, I just let pass by and then immediately do an extra-thorough cleaning as soon as they step away.)
Remember all those ‘we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone’ signs that used to be displayed over check-outs and bars? Of course THAT was heroic resistance against serving non-whites, or women, so it was freedumb…then.