Ohio lifts covid restrictions

[mbramley]

  Gov. Dewine just announced that as of June 2nd all covid restrictions are lifted. Business's themselves still can require masks and or distancing if they want.   

[hubcapsc]

That's handy  ...

-Mike

[f6john]

Nothing official here in Richmond, but my wife noticed that Lowe’s had taken down there mask signage at the entrance even though the employees still have them on. I haven’t worn a mask the last three visits with no problem and I’m noticing more people in the store the same. The majority of people are really sheep and will wear them until someone confiscates them. I’m going to experiment with some other public places and see how it goes.

[hubcapsc]

Nothing official here in Richmond, but my wife noticed that Lowe’s had taken down there mask signage at the entrance even though the employees still have them on. I haven’t worn a mask the last three visits with no problem and I’m noticing more people in the store the same. The majority of people are really sheep and will wear them until someone confiscates them. I’m going to experiment with some other public places and see how it goes.

I stopped by the superservice to get a plug put in my car's tire the other
day. An older lady was sitting there in the waiting room with her mask
on, so I went back to the car and got one for myself...

-Mike

[carolinarider09]

I know, I know its weird but........

Take Lowes, there is a sign on the door that says you have to wear a mask to enter. The sign is probably there because the "main office" requires it.  Half the people in the store don't have a mask on.  I do.

Why you ask??????  Because I have a choice to enter the store or not and I don't have to shop there.  They have made the request.  I have a choice. 

Same is true for some other places. 

I think the signs are up because the corporate office is trying to be "woke" (is that the right word). 

I have been in several gas stops where the clerks are wearing masks but the customers are not.  No sign on the door.

I have been in restaurants that have the same approach.  Employees have to wear the masks but customers are exempted.  Same with some hotels.   

I am torn between doing the right thing (meeting the identified request to enter) and doing the correct thing (mask don't make a difference according to the Stanford study). 

[cookiedough]

yah, businesses are for most part still having signs up in front MASKS REQUIRED around me, but see more and more people (not a ton maybe 10 percent tops) in stores NO mask wearing now and they do not get confronted kicking them out of the business/store. 

More and more businesses are either in June or early July going to start requiring employees back into the office while some are possibly going to allow SOME employees to still work at home if able to.  Will be interesting who still gets to work at home while others forced back into the office come July or so with near 1/2 the workforce almost now having the shots. 

What gets me is for over 1 year now most workers have been working from home with I would guess 90 percent or greater success rate only having to go into the office say a few times per month or once per week to do the filing or getting the mail, etc.  and being successful doing it.  Why the need for well over 1/2 the employees at most companies to NOT allow working from home if the jobs are getting done?    This working from home saves say for my wife or me 15K miles each off our vehicles per year plus NO gas expense or wear/tear on vehicles, let alone 1.5 hours of driving per day.

I know one person in particular working from home he can do 100 percent of his job AT HOME easily NEVER having to be in the office, yet mgmt. is forcing all to come back into the office in June or July.  WHY? 

[Serk]

It's interesting the difference a few miles make.... I'm right on the edge of Dallas county (Communist) and Rockwall county (Freedom).... The Wal Mart here in Dallas County has "MASKS REQUIRED!" signs up, and the mask aficionados stop anyone coming in and insist they get masked up.

I went to the Wal Mart in Rockwall county, just a few miles away, and their sign says "Masks Recommended". I walked in without one, no one said anything, well over 50% of the customers were breathing free, and even 10-20% of the employees had theirs lowered down onto their chin so they could breathe.

...think I'll be doing my shopping on the Freedom sided of the lake for the time being until everyone gets over this silliness.....

[Jess from VA]

My personal take on masks in stores is this:  Even though we've been told the mask is only good to stop you from giving disease vapor to others (and not stopping you from getting it), I think most employees working in stores and restaurants wear them simply because they are exposed to the public all day long, and they are trying to protect themselves from the public (even though it doesn't work very well, if at all).  And I don't blame them at all.

I would not have wanted any of those jobs before the disease, and I sure wouldn't want one with the disease.  I wear mine in stores because we are still required to, and everyone else is (and I don't want any disputes), but mostly I think it's a courtesy to all the employees who have to be there all day every day.  

My (solo practice) dentist is suited up like an astronaut (masks and shields).  He has to spend his days working right over people's gaping, breathing, gurgling mouths.  And he hasn't got it yet.  And I told him being exposed to him is my single largest risk, and I'm glad he protects me from him.  

[Bret SD]

Ca is due to halt the mask requirement on June 15, without the Gov Newsom recall effort I doubt that would be happening.

[Willow]

My personal take on masks in stores is this:  Even though we've been told the mask is only good to stop you from giving disease vapor to others (and not stopping you from getting it), I think most employees working in stores and restaurants wear them simply because they are exposed to the public all day long, and they are trying to protect themselves from the public (even though it doesn't work very well, if at all).  And I don't blame them at all.
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My observation is this.  Businesses need to carefully walk the line to offend as few possible customers as they can.  If they go all the way one direction or the other they will indeed lose customers.

I've had conversations with some employees that are required to wear.  Most are happy to pull down or take of the mask if no one of consequence is watching.

[Chrisj CMA]

If you haven’t figured it out yet masking does not protect anyone from anything. Social distancing is good if sick people are not staying home. Bottom line; I live life no vaccine, no mask, no worries. Just avoid people that don’t seem well and stay home if you don’t feel well. I live with no restrictions.

[old2soon]

   Around here in the ShoMe a lot of towns have lifted mask requirements. The ONLY place that will NOT let me in sans mask is my local V A Clinic even though they Are the ones that prescribed my O2 needs. I go to Physical Therapy 2 days a week at a hospital in West Plains Mo and they have mask requiried signs Everywhere. But because of my O2 needs and my already difficult breathing I am exempted from mask requiremnet. And even when wally wurld enforced mask wearing I just pointed at my canula and O2 bottle! I have 3 local eateries that Are Open an NO masks needed. micky Ds on the other hand is walk up or drive up Only no eating inside.  Sides-SOME in gubmint got zackly what they wanted-rampant inflation and the economy in tatters. RIDE SAFE.

[Hook#3287]

What I don't get is, all day long, mask wearers are touching the mask, adjusting the mask, scratching under the masks, then touching doors and handrails.

Seems like that would be more of a germ spreader situation then not doing all that.

Uncle Joe just stated "No masks required if your vaccinated"

[Moonshot_1]

Perhaps the biggest "tell" that masks don't do anything to stop the virus is the complete  lack of Bio hazard mask disposal receptacles anywhere. If these masks were doing their job they would be ladened with the virus and a bio hazard of the worst kind.

Should be handled like it was plutonium.

Got a sister in law. In the health field.
Her son came home from California for the weekend along with her daughter from Omaha.

To celebrate their being home, the family were invited to a local steakhouse to have dinner.

All together there was 20+ of us.

Sister in law is a pro mask person. Hardcore. It's the science science science kind of person.

So her and her kids come in wearing masks.
Soon as they get to the table area the masks come off as if they have entered a virus free zone.

Only science I see is the political science.

 

[..]

Soon as they get to the table area the masks come off as if they have entered a virus free zone.

 

That's been going on for months. The seated safety zone for those unable to use rational thought.