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[quote=Anonymous]Besides what another PP pointed out-- this seems only to apply to *TKPK city facilities,* like the community center-- people are conflating restaurant mask mandates with any sort of indoor mask mandate.

I have always felt that restaurant mask mandates are performative and nearly useless (even though I do strongly subscribe to the belief that some mitigation is better than none).

But there are lots of indoor businesses where there's no need for anyone to remove their masks to enjoy their services-- restaurants have just kind of gotten awkwardly swept up in that.

People who are vulnerable will generally choose not to go inside restaurants for that reason-- they know the deal. (And that's why mask requirements for restaurant *patrons* are superfluous at best.)

But I like indoor mask mandates generally at this time-- yes, still, for now-- because vulnerable people should be able to shop when necessary without being around maskless people.

There's a difference between maskless restaurant dining *as a patron* (what's the difference) and a maskless visit to CVS.

As for the employees? The only way they look like "serfs" to you is if you consider wearing masks to be punishment instead of extra protection-- in some ways, a privilege. Obviously it's more complicated than that-- I'm sure some employees don't want to mask and some employers require it not to protect them, but just to save face. But it's very telling that people (who really just want to bag on "socialists"-- yeah, right-- for being hypocrites) jump straight to masking as oppression as if it's a big gotcha. [/quote]

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