Posted on 04/19/2020 12:42:18 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Beginning Monday, Walmart and Sam’s Club will require all of their approximately 1.5 million U.S.-based associates to wear masks or other face coverings. This is a change from previous store policy which has now evolved to reflect CDC guidance on mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
John Furner of Walmart and Kath McLay of Sam’s Club sent out a memo to associates explaining the policy adjustment. Wearing a mask or face covering is now mandatory for all employes, no longer something done on a voluntary basis. Employees can wear their own masks or use a company-provided one. On April 9, masks were made mandatory in some communities with higher levels of cases.
Dan Bartlett, the company’s vice president of corporate affairs, said the company will need more than seven million masks each week for its employees. The delay in making masks mandatory for all its employees was out of consideration for the amount of personal protective equipment needed by medical professionals. Walmart is extending its emergency leave policy through May. It should also be noted that Walmart hopes its customers also wear masks.
Dumb and meaningless at this point in the game; just provoking more panic in the masses.
This is a change from previous store policy which has now evolved to reflect CDC guidance on mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
The CDC now runs the country with there GUIDANCE...
If Wasl Mart does not follow the guidelines the the slip and fall lawyers will
Last week it was Wal Mart can only let so many in the store...
So now they have four employees counting people...
Last time I asked they are allowed 990 but have never come close
What is to keep everyone from being in the Deli at the same time..
Fools all at the CDC
Bet when they open resturants everyone will have to wear masks...
China is going to make a fortune
Dan Bartlett, the company’s vice president of corporate affairs, said the company will need more than seven million masks each week for its employees. The delay in making masks mandatory for all its employees was out of consideration for the amount of personal protective equipment needed by medical professionals.
Watch Walmart online prices and shipping rates.
Where are the patrons supposed to get their masks?
Go to Wally World and ask for Masks, hand sanitizer, or a thermometer, you will get nothing but blank stares.
They can pretend to provide the masks, and you can pretend to wear them. :-)
Lowe’s and Sam’s are the only places I go. Sam’s has someone at the front door with a mask, spray bottle of “something” mediciny smelling and spraying a wipe that they pass out to customers entering the store (to wipe the cart handle). Nobody seems to be in a panic. Heck, bought TP there the other day....and bacon.
“It should also be noted that Walmart hopes its customers also wear masks.”
I hope I’ll win the lottery.
But people can touch everything with their grubby little fingers.
There is an ironic twist to all this masked shopper frenzy.
Every single day, the local sheriff’s department posts camera shots of the latest shoplifters of Walmart, asking for help identifying them.
An unintentionally hilarious turn, this.
LOL
This is probably about defending themselves from ambulance chasers.
When I first saw the advisement from WHO and the CDC that masks don’t work, I thought it was just their ploy to get everybody infected so they could increase their funding — since it is well known that most transmissible diseases are spread through the air — and not by touch. The latter would be an ineffective means of transmission because the skin is designed to be protective against infections — as long as it remains unbroken — which too frequent handwashings would actually compromise, to say nothing of developing meaningless obsessive-compulsive behaviors. So next they concocted another convoluted explanation that people would run their hands over dirty surfaces and stick their fingers in their mouths, noses, and eyes — as typical behaviors. Really?
But the real problems are the super-spreaders among us who are being overlooked — and again, encouraged to do so. Those are the runners typically breathing very heavily (think cough and sneeze) and expelling air very forcefully out of their lungs (whether infected or not), making it not surprising that so many athletes are infected, and spreading it widely throughout the crowds — as well as their opponents. Those asymptomatic people are the very ones who need to be doing their activities while wearing face masks — because these are the perfect spreaders of disease of this sort — often covering miles on now crowded paths. Again, this is one of the highly approved and condoned activities.
Masks do work — and is the obvious first line of defense for diseases that are breathed into the most vulnerable interface of the human body — which is the respiratory tract. The simplest constructions work as well as they seem. One doesn’t need a perfect seal — but eliminating 95% of all allergens, pathogens, pollution, dry, cold, is way superior to the tactic of being 100% protected against only one thing. Because that is not the point — as the specialists think. The bigger picture is all the ways one can die (all-cause mortality), and not just protection from one small thing, while greatly increasing the risks from everything else.
I stopped at a supermarket in Lycoming County, PA a few days ago. There was a sign by the door saying no admittance to anyone without a mask. Lycoming has about 100,000 people and about 40 known cases of coronavirus, no deaths.
Then I headed down the road into Northumberland, again 100k people, maybe 50 cases of disease, no deaths...and again the supermarket requires all customers to be masked.
At that point I went to Walmart, where I was allowed in, and I noticed quite a few employees without masks on.
..... There are usually a few enterprising people selling masks in the parking lots of the Walmarts and Sam's Club in our area.....
At this point the virus is everywhere and I’m willing to bet most of the country has been exposed. If N95 masks were available earlier it might have helped.
I refuse to wear a mask I will be damned to help this country LOOK like China!!! NO WAY!!!
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