Masks should be mandatory for everyone

Dear Editor:

How much more to the point do officials have to be?

Wear. A. Mask. Period.

It’s no different than putting your shoes on before leaving the house. Masks protect against the output of germs and spittle. A person wearing a mask will not be protected against a non-mask wearer’s output of germs.

The mask wearer will still breathe all your germs in and guess what? They will potentially catch the deadly virus because you don’t know that you’re a carrier!

Carriers have no symptoms. They don’t know they have it. They don’t get sick. Yet they can easily infect everyone they meet. I honestly wish cops were out in droves on bike, on foot, everywhere in the city issuing high-penalty tickets left and right to everyone who isn’t wearing a mask, including issuing an additional ticket to each parent who is with their child and their child isn’t wearing a mask because it’s the parent’s responsibility to make sure their kids are also wearing the gear.

If they’re elementary or secondary school age, and they’re old enough to understand (let’s say Grade 5 and up). The cops should be giving them tickets and not the parents, letting the parents decide on the course of action to be taken on how the fine gets paid between themselves and their child(ren).

This isn’t a game or a joke. I don’t care about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I don’t care about “my body, my rules.” Unless you have PTSD from doing something that required a mask and you can’t anymore, or a specific, medical reason where you need to provide a doctor’s note to show proof, everyone should be wearing a mask and it should be mandatory. No exceptions.

In the past it was “no shoes, no shirt, no service.” In today’s time it should be “no shoes, no shirt, no mask, no service.” Get your act together, put a mask on and stop with the sob stories.

Oh and do upkeep the proper hand washing, too, if you’d be so kind.

Greta Fader, Kelowna