We will not spend one cent of our hard earned money in the city of this is voted in.
Individual businesses should have this option however governmental mandates are another typical power grabbing over reach.
If a business wants to mandate masks, fine. But to make it criminal for not wearing a mask outside of those businesses is wrong. Also this is just going to push business outside of Milwaukee. I along with others are not going to patronize businesses in the city limits. Fact is I'm considering how I can move out of Milwaukee. I'm tired of this nanny state mentality from our city officials.
Please allow people to choose for themselves which health measures to take to protect themselves and others. Prolonged use of masks has not been shown to promote health and mask-to-mask transmission is still probable. Wearing masks has been well documented on giving the wearer a false sense of security which I can confirm from my own observations and interactions with others who are wearing a mask. They feel they can stand closer to me than I would wish. Many are unable to wear masks for a number of health and personal reasons. Do not give our citizens another reason to divide.
I am opposed. This takes away people's freedoms; furthermore it is not logical to implement this at a time when hospitalization and death rates are falling.
The city cannot certify the safety of a face mask which obstructs a child's breathing passages, thereby posing a choking & smothering risk, to 3+ year old child, nor certify whether a non-medical grade mask confers any degree of protection from a Covid-19 infection upon a wearer. The proposed policy is dangerous to children, whom I care about, and not based in science.
I do not reject my God given right to make health determinations for my own body, and delegate no authority to the Milwaukee Common Council to make such determinations. My fellow man is no danger to my health. I do not consent.
Even many of the people who supposedly support the mandate say they approve of a mandate in “public spaces” without realizing the ridiculous overreach involved. Many studies have come to the conclusion that there is very little risk of infection when outdoors. Many other studies have found that children are at very low risk to transmit or have serious symptoms from the virus. These parts of the mandate are not grounded in science and will only serve to further divide neighbors. A mandate requires a high burden of proof that this is not even close to achieving.
Evidence shows that masks keep other people safe. Customers entering business should be required to wear masks to keep employees safe. It's really not much to ask for in the name of public safety. We, as staff, have no idea where these customers have been nor what they've been doing. It is far more likely for Covid to be brought into an establishment from customers than it is to be spread around by staff. Please mandate masks!
I strongly support requiring masks. We must follow science and health professionals to stop the spread of COVID 19. Evidence suggests masks work, plain and simple. Do not let the rampant spread of misinformation from those opposed to this ordinance cost lives. When did caring for our fellow americans become an infringement on our freedoms?
I have been making a specific point to shop local and support Milwaukee businesses, because I imagine they must be suffering from the shutdowns, etc. However, if this passes, I will make a point to shop exclusively outside the city of Milwaukee. As it is, people can choose whether they go to businesses that require masks or choose to go to businesses that allow their customers to choose for themselves. This is as it should be.
I'm ambivalent about a mask mandate generally--businesses and individuals can generally handle their own property. I am skeptical that masks are necessary outdoors, and especially skeptical that the relevant variable for mask-wearing is distance, rather than time. The risk of receiving an infection-inducing viral load from an infected person is much greater with sustained contact than close contact. Thus, an outdoor mask mandate should be based on time, not distance, such that a person sitting in a park or on a beach must wear a mask, but not a person actively walking or biking.
Absolutely unacceptable. You have no right, constitutional or moral, to mandate a dress code for the American people. It is the middle of the summer and it is far too hard to breathe with a gag-I mean mask on your face. Any city or country that "requires" one will not get any of my business.
I agree that masks are much more effective at curbing the spread of the virus than no-masks. And unfortunatly not enough of us in this city are arriving at that conclusion on thier own. We've been unsuccessful leaning on individuals' sensibilites. We need to make this compulsory for now.
City will be sued. Masks are not safe per all pre-covid studies of cloth masks. And the liability of injuries, people passing out, heat stroke in high temps and high humidity. Was there no basic thought? And HIPAA to just walk down a street! ADA? Right to protest wearing them as a citizen!
This is so ridiculous. I think masks are a great idea, but let's start with people wearing them inside, there are so many people that don't wear them in the grocery store, let alone all the bars that have been packed the last month with people not wearing anything. You want to control the pandemic, bars can be open but no standing or sitting at the bar, require people wear them in stores where they are in close proximity with others, do not make this a requirement for outdoors too.
It is of the utmost importance we do everything in our power to curb the spread of COVID-19. I work in Milwaukee schools and if we want schools to be able to safely open we need this ordinance to reduce the spread.
I fully support an indoor mask mandate but oppose an outdoor mask mandate, especially for children under 12 years old. Our city has so many racial tensions, an outdoor mandate will become a bigger burden on People of Color that already endure profiling from police and citizens.
Oppose. Mandating masks violates the right to self-governance and is a very slippery slope. Should the government obtain the right over our bodies, it can mandate more than masks in the name of the "greater good". Additionally, there is conflicting data over the effectiveness of masks; even Fauci and The WHO previously mentioned they were ineffective. This has become a situation in which people are reacting with emotion vs logic.
Absolutely support.
I wish we COULD leave it up to the choice of individual people and businesses, but it seems that they just can't be trusted to do the right thing.
We will not spend one cent of our hard earned money in the city of this is voted in.
Individual businesses should have this option however governmental mandates are another typical power grabbing over reach.
Trust the governed should you desire the governed to trust.
If a business wants to mandate masks, fine. But to make it criminal for not wearing a mask outside of those businesses is wrong. Also this is just going to push business outside of Milwaukee. I along with others are not going to patronize businesses in the city limits. Fact is I'm considering how I can move out of Milwaukee. I'm tired of this nanny state mentality from our city officials.
Please allow people to choose for themselves which health measures to take to protect themselves and others. Prolonged use of masks has not been shown to promote health and mask-to-mask transmission is still probable. Wearing masks has been well documented on giving the wearer a false sense of security which I can confirm from my own observations and interactions with others who are wearing a mask. They feel they can stand closer to me than I would wish. Many are unable to wear masks for a number of health and personal reasons. Do not give our citizens another reason to divide.
I am opposed. This takes away people's freedoms; furthermore it is not logical to implement this at a time when hospitalization and death rates are falling.
The city cannot certify the safety of a face mask which obstructs a child's breathing passages, thereby posing a choking & smothering risk, to 3+ year old child, nor certify whether a non-medical grade mask confers any degree of protection from a Covid-19 infection upon a wearer. The proposed policy is dangerous to children, whom I care about, and not based in science.
I do not reject my God given right to make health determinations for my own body, and delegate no authority to the Milwaukee Common Council to make such determinations. My fellow man is no danger to my health. I do not consent.
Even many of the people who supposedly support the mandate say they approve of a mandate in “public spaces” without realizing the ridiculous overreach involved. Many studies have come to the conclusion that there is very little risk of infection when outdoors. Many other studies have found that children are at very low risk to transmit or have serious symptoms from the virus. These parts of the mandate are not grounded in science and will only serve to further divide neighbors. A mandate requires a high burden of proof that this is not even close to achieving.
Evidence shows that masks keep other people safe. Customers entering business should be required to wear masks to keep employees safe. It's really not much to ask for in the name of public safety. We, as staff, have no idea where these customers have been nor what they've been doing. It is far more likely for Covid to be brought into an establishment from customers than it is to be spread around by staff. Please mandate masks!
I strongly support requiring masks. We must follow science and health professionals to stop the spread of COVID 19. Evidence suggests masks work, plain and simple. Do not let the rampant spread of misinformation from those opposed to this ordinance cost lives. When did caring for our fellow americans become an infringement on our freedoms?
I have been making a specific point to shop local and support Milwaukee businesses, because I imagine they must be suffering from the shutdowns, etc. However, if this passes, I will make a point to shop exclusively outside the city of Milwaukee. As it is, people can choose whether they go to businesses that require masks or choose to go to businesses that allow their customers to choose for themselves. This is as it should be.
I'm ambivalent about a mask mandate generally--businesses and individuals can generally handle their own property. I am skeptical that masks are necessary outdoors, and especially skeptical that the relevant variable for mask-wearing is distance, rather than time. The risk of receiving an infection-inducing viral load from an infected person is much greater with sustained contact than close contact. Thus, an outdoor mask mandate should be based on time, not distance, such that a person sitting in a park or on a beach must wear a mask, but not a person actively walking or biking.
Absolutely unacceptable. You have no right, constitutional or moral, to mandate a dress code for the American people. It is the middle of the summer and it is far too hard to breathe with a gag-I mean mask on your face. Any city or country that "requires" one will not get any of my business.
I agree that masks are much more effective at curbing the spread of the virus than no-masks. And unfortunatly not enough of us in this city are arriving at that conclusion on thier own. We've been unsuccessful leaning on individuals' sensibilites. We need to make this compulsory for now.
City will be sued. Masks are not safe per all pre-covid studies of cloth masks. And the liability of injuries, people passing out, heat stroke in high temps and high humidity. Was there no basic thought? And HIPAA to just walk down a street! ADA? Right to protest wearing them as a citizen!
This is so ridiculous. I think masks are a great idea, but let's start with people wearing them inside, there are so many people that don't wear them in the grocery store, let alone all the bars that have been packed the last month with people not wearing anything. You want to control the pandemic, bars can be open but no standing or sitting at the bar, require people wear them in stores where they are in close proximity with others, do not make this a requirement for outdoors too.
It is of the utmost importance we do everything in our power to curb the spread of COVID-19. I work in Milwaukee schools and if we want schools to be able to safely open we need this ordinance to reduce the spread.
I oppose any mandate that requires masks. If this passes in Milwaukee, I will be taking my business and my money elsewhere.
I oppose this proposal to take away of our freedoms, and the taking away of freedoms worries me more than catching covid-19 does.
I fully support an indoor mask mandate but oppose an outdoor mask mandate, especially for children under 12 years old. Our city has so many racial tensions, an outdoor mandate will become a bigger burden on People of Color that already endure profiling from police and citizens.
Oppose. Mandating masks violates the right to self-governance and is a very slippery slope. Should the government obtain the right over our bodies, it can mandate more than masks in the name of the "greater good". Additionally, there is conflicting data over the effectiveness of masks; even Fauci and The WHO previously mentioned they were ineffective. This has become a situation in which people are reacting with emotion vs logic.