Los Angeles just announced that it will require people in the city to wear a face covering when visiting or working at essential businesses. These essential businesses include places like: grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, taxis, Uber’s, and any other type of essential business.
(By now, you are probably very familiar with “essential businesses.”)
These face coverings can be a mask, bandanna, or any other type of covering that goes over both the nose and mouth. It does not require face coverings to be medical grade or N95 masks but they also encourage people to not report others wearing such masks as many people with them may be immune compromised.
In addition, the businesses must supply face coverings for the employees at essential businesses and “implement social distancing measures for customers, visitors, and employees that provides a six-foot buffer, to the extent possible.”
I am in favor of this new order as I just wrote about deaths starting to appear in grocery stores as employees are being subjected to carriers of the virus on a daily basis.
Offering face coverings to employees and requiring patrons to wear them inside establishments should help to mitigate transmission of the disease at least to an extent. There are also some other suggestions like installing plexi-glass shields at cashier points of sale.
Business owners can refuse customers if they are not complying with the face covering order.
As for keeping these face coverings hygienic, the order states that, “All essential, non-medical workers required to wear these face coverings must frequently (at least once a day) wash any reusable face coverings, for the health and safety of themselves and others,” and that “Single-use face coverings must be properly discarded into trash receptacles.”
The order goes into effect midnight on Friday.
H/T: L.A. Times
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