siren0119
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My mother just sent me an article about Governor Baker and Massachusetts Covid. Apparently he's creating a Covid Enforcement and Intervention team, which will help enforce current mandates re the virus-like MASKS! I think that's great-our state has a mandate from the governor that everyone must wear a mask, at least in businesses. But who enforces it? No one, so why have the mandate?
Why have the mandate - because when it was "strongly encouraged", or "strongly advised", enough people didn't care to follow it. Making it a mandate just strengthened the wording. I can't tell you how many people I know who were totally fine not wearing masks and when I asked why was told "well it isn't mandated". Welp, now it is. I suspect it may have also been worded that way to allow businesses to enforce mask wearing by customers, for the safety of their workers.