OPINION | MARY ANN D'URSO
The Grocery Stories: Unmasking the unmasked
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“Is it a store requirement to wear masks?” my customer asks while I ring up her order on the register.
“Not only is it a store requirement, it’s a state requirement,” I say.
“That man over there isn’t wearing a mask,” she says, motioning in the direction of someone standing on another line. He is eight lines away, standing inches behind the person ahead of him. I understand that someone is asking me to do something.
My feet advance, as if I were in an airport on a moving walkway. Everything around me seems to still. I walk over to the unmasked man. “Excuse me, sir, I need to ask you to put on a mask. It’s a store requirement.”
“I already talked to your manager,” he says, smirking. “I have a medical condition.”
There it is: the two words — medical condition — that are the bullet in this game of Russian Roulette with the health and lives of the rest of us.
Read the full op-ed.
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More “Grocery Stories” from Mary Ann D'Urso
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