- Wearing a face mask whenever you’re in public these days is starting to become a fact of life as Americans adjust to a reopening of their states and learn to live with the coronavirus until a vaccine is developed.
- However, the rules vary from place to place. For some businesses, a face mask is a requirement. For others, it’s a strong suggestion. And in some states, you’re technically breaking the law if you’re not wearing one.
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Face masks have become one of the most enduring — and surprisingly controversial — images of the coronavirus pandemic that’s been tearing through the US for more than two months now. Anyone who takes a flight on a major US airline right now, for example, will find face masks required for both airline employees as well as passengers. Increasingly, such face coverings are also required when you shop at retail stores, as a complement to other coronavirus-related protections that include also asking that people continue to socially distance inside and to limit how many people can actually be in the store at one time. My local Target store, for example, now keeps customers lined up outside the front door, welcoming in people gradually to keep that number limited inside.
At the same time, we’re starting to see vehement protests of the requirement to wear face masks, with airlines offering a good example of the line that companies are trying to straddle. They want customers — no, they actually desperately need customers right now, with the economy still a mess. They also want those customers to wear a face mask, which can limit the spread of your germs to other people. But for some airlines, the face mask rule is a requirement without any enforcement. You have to wear one during your flight … but there’s no “or else.”
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If you don’t wear a face mask in one of these states, you’re breaking the law originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 21 May 2020 at 17:01:03 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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