- July 3, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
In Los Angeles, county health officials are now “strongly” recommending that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant.
The county suggests people use them in large group settings like grocery or retail stores, theaters and other places when people’s vaccination status is unknown. Because verification is difficult, some places continue to require their frontline employees to wear masks — such as With Love Market and Cafe, where founder and operator Andrew McDowell told his staff last week they will be wearing their masks “indefinitely.”
During the worst days of COVID-19, mask mandates became a cultural and political flashpoint between supporters and opponents of public health policy, especially in epicenters like California and New York. Local businesses, already struggling to adapt to post-pandemic life, now have yet another pill to swallow.
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