If you can wear a mask, do it.
That’s the message from the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health.
Dr. Robert Strang says he’s tired of anti-mask rhetoric.
“You may not like to wear a mask, that’s okay, you don’t have to like it, but you still need to do it,” he says. “The bottom line is, if you can wear a mask, just wear one. No loopholes, no excuses, just wear the mask. It’s the very least we can do to keep each other safe right now.”
Dr. Strang says it’s unacceptable to argue with bus drivers, service workers, or retail workers about wearing a mask.
He says those people are fully within their rights to ask you to put on a mask or leave, if you don’t have a valid medical reason not to wear one.
Dr. Strang also took time out of Tuesday’s COVID-19 update to address anti-mask people directly.
“To the anti-mask people, who I’ve seen footage of deliberately violating the masking requirement and deliberately getting in close contact with others while being forcefully asked to go away: You need to stop.”
Dr. Strang announced new restrictions for nursing homes, the previously allowed two designated caregivers per resident has been reduced to one.
He says there are 10 new cases of COVID-19, all in the Central Zone, with 142 active infections provincewide.
