GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — As the Coronavirus pandemic begins a second wave of infections in the United States, more and more businesses, states, and municipalities are requiring the use of face masks.
A large number of retailers began mandating face masks this week, including Walmart, Festival Foods, Walgreens, and CVS. The mandates have caused division online. Mary Kurnowski, doing some early Monday morning shopping at a Bellevue retailer, likes the new rules.
“I think it’s a good thing,” Kurnowski told WTAQ. “I think that’s one way to keep this disease from spreading.”
Ray, shopping on the west side, agreed.
“I love it,” he said. “I only go to Menard’s to shop now because at Home Depot, they didn’t require you to wear a mask and nobody wore a mask there.”
That won’t last long, however. Home Depot, too, is mandating shoppers wear masks starting this Wednesday (https://corporate.homedepot.com/newsroom/home-depot-requires-face-masks). So is Target, which begins their mandatory mask rule on August 1st.
The rules aren’t popular with everyone, and neither are the masks themselves. Over a dozen protesters outside of Green Bay city hall rallied Monday as Mayor Eric Genrich announced a plan to require masks in indoor businesses throughout the city of Green Bay.
