{"id":13387,"date":"2021-05-11T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=13387"},"modified":"2021-05-11T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:39:29","slug":"masks-encouragedmasks-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/13387","title":{"rendered":"Masks Encouraged=Masks Required"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Morgan Roberts&#8211;<\/strong>Working in a service\u2013oriented environment means dealing with the public face to face.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With COVID still being a health risk, masks are an obvious necessity with in\u2013person meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is wild is that people still refuse to wear masks over a year into the pandemic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I work in a cafe where we have freshly opened the lobby with signage stating, \u201cMasks Appreciated,\u201d instead of requiring them upon entry of the store. This pretty much just means customers get to control the safety of themselves, other patrons, and the employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the register there is a slab of plexiglass as a barrier for the ones who don\u2019t want to wear a mask, but unsurprisingly those are also the people who like to peek their head around it to try and talk to me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other precautions of the store are the CDC\u2013recommended 6 foot buffer and certain seating around the store to ensure that precaution is being met.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, there are still patrons who become illiterate when it comes to reading a sign saying \u201cSeating Available\u201d on a bright red sheet of paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get that this company doesn\u2019t require masks in the lobby since it is a cafe, meaning there is high competition in the area. As a business the number one priority is profit and requiring masks could negatively affect that, so the owners had to decide if they value money or health more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Money won. Employees lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Morgan Roberts&#8211;Working in a service\u2013oriented environment means dealing with the public face to face.\u00a0 With COVID still being a health risk, masks are an obvious necessity with in\u2013person meetings.\u00a0 What is wild is that people still refuse to wear masks over a year into the pandemic! I work in a cafe where we have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":11788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46913],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13388,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions\/13388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}