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State Chapters => Florida => Topic started by: libertybele on July 09, 2020, 05:33:01 pm
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Yet another city in our county without a mandate. This city has been hit very hard with 3% of the population testing positive and that number is climbing.
Fort Myers city leaders vote against mask mandate
Fort Myers city leaders voted against a mask mandate Thursday afternoon, 4-3, after a very long meeting and many public comments.
They did, however, pass a motion to encourage business owners to mandate masks in their stores.
Mask mandates are an issue many feel strongly about.
In a social experiment, WINK News tallied the first two hundred people walking out of a Walmart along Colonial Blvd and Six Mile to try to and answer the question—how many people are wearing a mask?
The results showed 143 people wore a mask and the other 57 did not. That means 73 and a half percent were wearing a mask.
That is different than when we’ve done experiments and polls like this in the past where 50-percent of you told us you do wear a mask in public while the remaining 50 percent either don’t wear one or are against mask mandates.
With that discussion on the table again Thursday, this time in Fort Myers, many we spoke with were leaning in favor of requiring face masks when entering buildings and areas with high volumes of people.
“I’d like to see all of us wear a mask right now just a cover and protect all of us because we don’t know who’s got what,†said Fort Myers resident, Christa Ivey.
Another resident who previously did not wear masks, says they now are when out in public...........
https://www.winknews.com/2020/07/09/fort-myers-city-leaders-meet-thursday-to-discuss-a-mask-mandate/ (https://www.winknews.com/2020/07/09/fort-myers-city-leaders-meet-thursday-to-discuss-a-mask-mandate/)