From local yoga studios to McDonald's, U.S. businesses of all sizes are reintroducing mask mandates. It's a reversal that nobody wanted to see, brought on by the fast-spreading delta variant of the coronavirus and new federal health guidance.
“We’ve already been through the worst of the challenges when we shut down the indoors last year,” said Brack May, the chef and owner of Cowbell, a New Orleans burger joint. “Let’s just get ahead of the curve here.”May recently began requiring customers to show their vaccine cards for indoor dining. He said he wants to protect his workers, who are required to be vaccinated but have young children at home, as well as his neighborhood, where some musicians recently contracted the coronavirus.
A handful of places, like Louisiana, the San Francisco Bay area and Las Vegas, are mandating masks indoors. PanTerra Gallery, a women’s clothing store in Bisbee, Arizona, reinstated a mask mandate for customers a few weeks ago after watching cases climb nationwide. “I didn’t get both my doses and deal with the rather gnarly side effects only to be told to go back to the way things were during the pandemic,” he said.
“It doesn’t really feel like it is doing much good wearing a mask when everyone around me is not,” said Crawley, a client manager for J&J Editorial, a managed services company for scholarly publishing. The new wave of mandates give some comfort to companies that never gave up on masks, even when U.S. cases ebbed earlier this summer.
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