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Nervous workers struggle to adjust to new mask policies
Chicago Sun Times ^ | May 20, 2021, 11:02am CDT | Associated Press Alexandra Olson, Joseph Pisani and Anne D’Innocenzio

Posted on 05/20/2021 1:45:30 PM PDT by conservative98

Some workers don’t trust customers — or their co-workers — to be truthful about their vaccination status since most companies are not requiring proof. Others fear they will be judged if they leave their own masks on, even though their reasons for doing so are varied.

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Kroger, the country’s largest grocery chain, became one of the latest to announce that, starting Thursday, workers and customers can stop wearing masks

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William Stratford, 29, won’t be fully vaccinated until next month, but shoppers and co-workers at the home improvement store where he works had been coming in without a mask even before the CDC put out its latest guidance.

He has complained to management and eats lunch in his car to avoid mask-less people in the breakroom. He gets stares from shoppers and co-workers.

“I know for a fact people have a negative opinion of me,” said Stratford of Valley Center, California, who asked that the store where he works not be named out of fear of reprisal. “It’s become a divisive issue in the workplace.”

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Some workers worry they have been left to bear the fallout of a confusing jumble of policies. John Bartlett, a meat manager at a Safeway in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, said he is personally relieved that, for now, his store is still requiring masks for everyone but he worries that the policy will make dealing with anti-mask customers even more difficult.

“We have customers who literally cuss at us,” said Bartlett, recalling an incident where a man stormed out of the store shouting obscenities after Bartlett pleaded with him to wear a mask. “The country should just have one policy. It would make it easier because we wouldn’t have deal with customers who are so rude and awful to us.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: california; colorado; homedepot; kroger; masks; masksdontwork; safeway; sanmarcos; vaccine
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1 posted on 05/20/2021 1:45:30 PM PDT by conservative98
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2 posted on 05/20/2021 1:47:16 PM PDT by conservative98
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Well, I would just identify as vaccinated.


3 posted on 05/20/2021 1:47:36 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: conservative98
workers and customers can stop wearing masks

Hopefully everyone does this.

4 posted on 05/20/2021 1:48:17 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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A coworker of mine said she and her husband wore masks everywhere and still got sick, so there’s that…


5 posted on 05/20/2021 1:51:12 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Lift the rim. You’re not that good a shot.)
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To: conservative98

Was that sign in front of a brothel?


6 posted on 05/20/2021 1:51:41 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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William Stratford, 29, won’t be fully vaccinated until next month, but shoppers and co-workers at the home improvement store where he works had been coming in without a mask even before the CDC put out its latest guidance.

He has complained to management and eats lunch in his car to avoid mask-less people in the breakroom. He gets stares from shoppers and co-workers.

“I know for a fact people have a negative opinion of me,” said Stratford of Valley Center, California, who asked that the store where he works not be named out of fear of reprisal. “It’s become a divisive issue in the workplace.”


8 posted on 05/20/2021 1:54:16 PM PDT by conservative98
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If you can’t trust someone’s claim of being vaccinated, can you trust someone’s claim that they can legally vote?


9 posted on 05/20/2021 1:54:41 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: conservative98; SkyDancer; bitt; DarthVader; Jane Long; fieldmarshaldj; null and void

Did anyone tell these scared Sheeple that the masks don’t prevent getting or giving the virus? The masks don’t do squat!

Did anyone tell the brainwashed Sheeple that their “shots” which aren’t truly vaccines, don’t prevent them from getting the virus? I believe it states that one may get a “less severe” case of Covid.

Did anyone tell the Sheeple that those who have not gotten the “shots” are more likely to catch the virus from them as the virus sheds?

Did anyone tell the Sheeple that there are thousands dying from the “shots” and “many thousands with serious side effects from the Covid shots?


10 posted on 05/20/2021 1:55:52 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Whining sheep


11 posted on 05/20/2021 1:56:16 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: conservative98; Navy Patriot; Kathy in Alaska; bitt; Jane Long; SkyDancer; ALOHA RONNIE; ...

Perhaps William Stratford should try combat if he truly wants to be scared of something serious.

Closing Battle Scene of We Were Soldiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaSi-H0oGY&t=23s


12 posted on 05/20/2021 1:59:17 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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13 posted on 05/20/2021 1:59:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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William Stratford, 29

Can Anyone demonstrate any Real Science, Controlled Studies,.. demonstrating a diaper on your face will prevent the Transmission of a Respiratory Virus?


14 posted on 05/20/2021 1:59:42 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Those blue masks every one wears that are given out free are only moisture barriers from exhaling not virus stoppers when inhaling.


15 posted on 05/20/2021 2:00:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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Not to mention what they’re doing to the sheeple wearing them.


16 posted on 05/20/2021 2:01:21 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: conservative98

I have seen so many workers with their masks under their noses, it isn’t funny. You can’t tell me most workers are that worried. I bet they can hardly wait to ditch the face diapers.


17 posted on 05/20/2021 2:02:18 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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Breathing back their own effluent the lungs are trying to get rid of.


18 posted on 05/20/2021 2:03:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: eyeamok
Rand Paul today on Fox - only the N95 mask has ANY chance of working. The rest of the masks are all theater. Is William wearing an N95 mask? Shame on Fauci for scaring this kid.

Kentucky Senator @RandPaul joins guest host @JackieDeAngelis to discuss Dr. Fauci's back and forth on masks and CDC guidelines. pic.twitter.com/ltz6wKvi7i— Neil Cavuto (@TeamCavuto) May 19, 2021


19 posted on 05/20/2021 2:06:20 PM PDT by conservative98
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Look, i think the guy needs to grow a set of balls, but is this really necessary? Doxxing him? Don’t be a dick.


20 posted on 05/20/2021 2:07:28 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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