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Masks are back !!! Walmart required shoppers and employees — regardless of vaccine status — wear masks in stores in areas with high COVID-19 transmission.

Some retail workers are worried about going back to policing mask use in stores and restaurants, following new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC recently recommended that everyone mask up indoors in areas with "high transmission," after saying in May that vaccinated individuals could drop masks indoors. Some companies have followed suit by also resurrecting mask requirements for all.

"I would love if our customers still had to wear masks," said Jeannette Randall, a Safeway store employee in Roxbury, Washington. "It would give all employees a bit of relief in being in fear of the Delta variant." (Safeway's parent company, Albertsons, is considering reinstating a mask requirement).

Randall said she is fully vaccinated, but she's fearful of new variants and the possibility of infecting her unvaccinated 6-year-old child or her immunocompromised mother.

"The fear is still there and I know — even though I am vaccinated and masked — unless we all do our part, myself and my family are not 100% safe from COVID," she said.






https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-starbucks-ikea-employees-brace-for-anger-over-masks-2021-8