Posted on 02/28/2021 8:34:29 PM PST by real saxophonist
Breckenridge to hire security guards to enforce mask mandates during spring break
Guards will work in downtown 'mask zone'
By: Lance Hernandez
Feb 28, 2021 BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. -- The Breckenridge Town Council is taking steps to protect frontline workers during spring break.
Council members plan to hire two security guards to help enforce public health orders during the two-week spring break peak in mid-March.
Town Manager Rick Holman told council members on Tuesday that a lot of businesses are struggling, and that it has a little bit to do with the "attitude" of some people in town.
He explained that some visitors are giving frontline workers grief when reminded about the mask requirement.
The ski town has instituted a mandatory mask zone in the downtown area.
A banner across Main Street states: "Love this place? Cover your face!"
Main Street was hopping Saturday evening as tourists flocked downtown both to shop and dine out.
Most were wearing masks, some were not.
"I'm from Texas," said Leslie Foley, who had her mask in her hand.
"In Texas, you don't necessarily have to wear one outside," chimed Foley's friend, Joanne Grigsby.
"Matter of fact, last week, (there was a) major snow storm (in Texas,) they didn't even care if you had one," Foley added.
Town officials said masks and social distancing have help slow down the spread of COVID-19 in Summit County.
"We're trending really well right now," Police Chief Jim Baird told Denver7. "We want to make sure we don't lose the ground that we've gained."
He said many spring-breakers are coming from areas with significantly fewer COVID-related restrictions.
The goal, he said, is to have security guards deal with mask issues, while police are busy with other things during spring break.
Baird added there has already been some mask-related friction.
"We do have occasions where people create conflict," he said. "People who believe masks are helpful and those that don't."
Lacey Kirwan hasn't seen any conflict in her store, Breck 'N' Boujee. She said customers wear masks in that store, which is the total opposite of her stores in South Dakota.
"Over there, you wear a mask and they look at you weird," she said. "Here you don't have a mask, you get yelled at."
"From what we've seen, the majority of people are wearing masks," said Kyle Hutchison, who is vacationing with his wife, Alison.
The Huchison's, from Illinois, said they're OK with security guards reminding people about the mask mandate.
"I feel fortunate enough that if I'm being asked to wear a mask, I get to go sit at a restaurant, or do a little shopping, like we are right now," she said. "To me that's totally worth it, and you'd hope that others would do the same."
A half dozen, or so people were spotted sans masks Saturday evening. One snowboarder, walking down Main Street without a mask, said he didn't have time to talk.
Baird said uniformed security guards will let visitors know about the mandates.
"The approach is educational," he said. "People shouldn't be harassing the waitress at a restaurant, or the high school kid working behind the counter at a t-shirt shop because they were asked to put on a mask."
"We're trying to take the onus off frontline workers," Holman told the Town Council.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL: “You are not permitted in this resort town without a mask. It’s for your own good. COVID is dangerous!”
ME: “If it’s so dangerous in your town that I must wear hazmat gear, then it will be much cheaper and more convenient for me to simply go camping at my local landfill.”
They might not need more than 2. Many universities canceled spring break this year.
Ahhh yes. The "Restaurant Loophole". You have to wear your mask in the restaurant unless you are sitting at your table. Then you don't have to wear one. (which makes sense, after all, because how could you eat?)
But think of all the people you must be infecting with your emissions that float magically in the air to be ingested by others for up to three hours (according to the "science")
See, you are protected because you are seated, but vulnerable on your feet.
Yeah. That makes all the sense in the world. And Leftists (the ones that make the mandates, and the ones who "believe" in them as this quoted tourist does) are "following the Science" with a capital "S".
Ahhh yes. The "Restaurant Loophole". You have to wear your mask in the restaurant unless you are sitting at your table. Then you don't have to wear one. (which makes sense, after all, because how could you eat?)
But think of all the people you must be infecting with your emissions that float magically in the air to be ingested by others for up to three hours (according to the "science")
See, you are protected because you are seated, but vulnerable on your feet.
Yeah. That makes all the sense in the world. And Leftists (the ones that make the mandates, and the ones who "believe" in them as this quoted tourist does) are "following the Science" with a capital "S".
The Italians strike again! 8~)
It doesn’t happen to me often, but once in a great while I meet or see someone who I feel a deep, unexplainable revulsion to.
I often cannot explain it. But Fauci is one of those people. The first time I saw him and heard him, I felt that, and in his case, I came to see my gut reaction was valid.
Like Kary Mullis, I am suspicious of someone who is afraid to debate their point of view.
And like Kary Mullis, I do think there are a lot of sheep out there.
I agree. My wife and I took a 5 day ski trip to Breckenridge from Richards-Gebaur AFB just south of Kansas City MO in 1971 where we were stationed in the Air Force. No kids or obligations to tie us down yet.
If I recall, there was a big football game that New Years's weekend we went to the slopes and we had them all to ourselves. No lift lines at all.
But alas, it was never the same after that.
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