Posted on 02/25/2022 7:13:56 AM PST by lightman
Customers and workers at most Target stores no longer have to wear masks.
The Minnesota-based retailer updated its policies on Feb. 21, saying masks won’t be required as long as local regulations don’t force stores to require them.
“The health and safety of our guests and team members have been Target’s top priority throughout the pandemic. As COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the country, Target will not require our U.S. team members or guests to wear masks, as local regulations allow,” Target said in a statement.
“We’ll follow all state and local COVID-19 safety regulations and encourage our team members and guests to consult the latest public health guidance, get vaccinated and make decisions to keep themselves and their families safe,” it added.
Target has 1,926 stores in the United States and employs approximately 350,000 workers.
The retailer in August 2021 imposed the masking requirements in all counties designated high risk for COVID-19 transmission by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some 82 percent of the country falls under that designation as of Feb. 25.
Other large retailers have eased mask mandates in recent weeks as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations plunge across the country.
Walmart and Sam’s Club workers were told in mid-February that they can stop wearing masks, provided they’re fully vaccinated and work in a store that is not located in a jurisdiction that requires masking. Workers who are employed in “clinical care settings,” such as pharmacies, are also still forced to don face coverings.
Vaccinated workers can continue to wear masks, Walmart said in a memo. “We support and respect an individual’s choice to continue wearing one,” company officials said. Customers are not required to wear masks.
Amazon also said recently that masks would no longer be required for fully vaccinated employees, provided local regulations don’t force masking indoors.
Fully vaccinated means a person has received two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson jab.
The masking guidance update came due to a “sharp decline in COVID-19 cases across the country over the past weeks along with increasing vaccination rates across the country,” an Amazon spokesperson told The Epoch Times, adding, “This is a positive sign we can return to the path to normal operations.”
A slew of the states and counties that still forced people to mask in various settings have also totally withdrawn or partially withdrawn their masking mandates, citing the drop in COVID-19 metrics.
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Another woke lib company suddenly and inexplicably embraces the dems new ‘mask poltiscience’ as they all back away from their former claims of ‘science!’
I wouldn’t go into a target to throw up
Figured this was coming when their stupor-bowl commercial no longer showed masked customers.
I’ve not been in a Target ever since they allowed men into the ladies rooms. Why am I not surprised they were STILL requiring customers to wear masks? 🤣
They are still in business? Haven’t been to target in years since their asinine bathroom policy. At the mall, the store seems empty most of the time (this was even before covid). Thought sure they would fold
Even before the bathroom abomination for me.
Between refusing to allow the salvation army on premises (before they went woke) to restricting employees from wearing anything Christmas related during the holidays....if I would need to get it at target I’ll just do without.
Anyway, what does target have that Walmart, Lowes or home depot do not?
Anyway, what does target have that Walmart, Lowes or home depot do not?
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Targay is not a place I shop.
People around here stopped wearing them to Target long ago. Many workers pulled the mask down off their nose or wore them around their chins. We are still alive.
Our two nearby Target stores haven’t required masks for the last year.
You know what’s cool? This is the only thread on the front page about Covid.
If safety of customers is a concern, why do they let men in the ladies room?
Oh, good. Now I can go back to putting all the toilet seats up in the women’s bathroom.
Except in the women's restrooms, anyway.
Covid is so 2019.
Next up, time to get over the inflation panic.
Whatever the conditions, people adjust.
See “Man’s Search for Meaning”
-Viktor Frankl
Even in the German death camps, people adjusted.
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