GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A Green Bay plant shop owner says Wisconsin’s new mask mandate doesn’t make sense.
She calls it a one-size fits all response to the pandemic, and she won’t enforce it in her store.
City leaders say the claims she is making about masks are dangerous.
Lynn Austin owns The Good Herb shop on Green Bay’s east side, and tells FOX 11 if you’re worried about the air inside, you should wait outside.
“They don’t even usually ask. If they say ‘do you require a mask?’, and I say ‘no’, they say, ‘oh, good’.”
In a post on Green Bay Alder Randy Scannell’s Facebook, Lynn said:
I don’t allow masks in my place of business, because it cuts the level of oxygen intake that a person receives down. I don’t want anyone who has respiratory issues to become disoriented, faint, or become dizzy from the lack of oxygen. If you all want to trap that “dangerous environmental commodity” the infamous CO2 inside your masks that is your right.
Scannel tells Fox 11 he’s perplexed by people with that kind of attitude.
“They seem to have a hard time wrapping their head around the point that we are in the middle of a pandemic, a worldwide pandemic. We are following what the medical professionals are recommending.”
Maureen De Terville commented: “Sadly, this is the mentality that ensures that we are stuck with this virus, until there is a vaccine.”
To that comment, Austin replied: “That’s ignorant. It’s propaganda and people have drunk the Kool-aid. I mean it’s crazy cause I see the police and they are wearing them. I would not want to chase some criminal wearing that,” Austin finished.
Green Bay Police Commander Kevin Warych says they’ve received four complaints about people not wearing face coverings at local businesses. He say the department wants to educate people rather than issue citations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines say people should be wearing masks in public.
Several fact checks and a 2012 study linked to the CDC’s website have found no health risks for otherwise healthy people.
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