{"id":24875,"date":"2020-12-02T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T22:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=24875"},"modified":"2020-12-03T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:21:54","slug":"mask-mandate-sparks-varied-response-in-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mask-mandate-sparks-varied-response-in-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask mandate sparks strong response in Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the provincial mandate came into effect, some businesses immediately saw an increasing divide in how the community responded.<\/p>\n<p>As the Kootenay Co-op Grocery Store hired its first-ever security guard, an employee at Empire Coffee was spat on. Tensions around the pandemic are not new in Nelson \u2014 Baker Street and city hall have been the sites of at least three back-to-back anti-mask protests \u2014 but they are escalating.<\/p>\n<p>Business owners have been trying to balance maintaining a safe environment for staff and patrons, and unofficially enforcing pandemic protocols, although Interior Health and Dr. Bonnie Henry said it is not the responsibility of businesses to enforce the mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the CJLY story here:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-24875-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MaskMandateEffects.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MaskMandateEffects.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MaskMandateEffects.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>With files from Jake Sherman.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24885\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24885\" class=\" wp-image-24885\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RobLittleEmpire-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"Man in mask infront of cafe\" width=\"424\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RobLittleEmpire-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RobLittleEmpire-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RobLittleEmpire.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Little, the general manager at the Adventure Hotel, watched his coworker have a heart attack after being spit on by a customer who refused to wear a mask. Photo by Keili Bartlett.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24877\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24877\" class=\" wp-image-24877\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CoopGreeter-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"Man wearing mask with hand sanitizer outside grocery store\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CoopGreeter-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CoopGreeter-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/CoopGreeter.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A greeter at the Kootenay Co-op Grocery Store explains the mask mandate and COVID-19 protocols to customers entering the business. Photo by Keili Bartlett.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the provincial mandate came into effect, some businesses immediately saw an increasing divide in how the community responded. As the Kootenay Co-op Grocery Store hired its first-ever security guard, an employee at Empire Coffee was spat on. Tensions around the pandemic are not new in Nelson \u2014 Baker Street and city hall have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":24879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,218,223],"tags":[3795,284,3794,2530],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24875"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=24875"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=24875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}