Exactly. It's a private company. Shop elsewhere. Shopping in a supermarket for 30 minutes and being in contact with an infected person for 2 minutes, once a week, is not likely to make you sick. WORKING in that market for 8 hours a day and being exposed to hundreds of people every day is far riskier. Retailers have an obligation to protect their employees.
Ordinarily I would agree with you - shop somewhere else. Unfortunately, in the Pittsburgh region, Giant Eagle has a near monopoly. There aren’t a whole lot of alternatives.
Or use curbside pick-up or delivery. Giant Eagle offers delivery.
Apparently you don’t give a crap about freedom. The government was pushing this issue. The supermarket was also wrong for incorrectly enforcing an unconstitutional order. The police were wrong with enforcing an unconstitutional order. This type of actions and thinking has ruined America.
Well, you've got me curious now. The supermarket employees have been working for a couple of months now since the virus started hitting the news. The whole mask phenomenon is a fairly recent event. So those employees must have been exposed to tens of thousands of customers in the meantime, most of the time without a facemask present. Next time you're at the supermarket, ask somebody working there how many of their co-workers have missed time due to the virus, and how many died or got sick enough to require medical care. Let us know what you find out.
“Exactly. It’s a private company. Shop elsewhere.”
If you are an “essential business” does it not stand to reason that it is essential the people visit, mask or no mask?
Seems to me you reaped the benefits of staying open while the rest of the world was made to close, so maybe cut people some slack.
Now Disney, I am NOT paying $4K to walk around there with a mask, period!