Not everyone can wear a mask and work. People taking in carts are out in the 80+ degree ridiculous humidity, keeping a pretty safe distance from other people. Covering their noses and mouths in those conditions could make it incredibly difficult to breathe.
I wear glasses. I did an experiment and tried weeding my garden the other day while wearing a mask. When I weed I'm also wearing gloves (industrial nitrile gloves, thicker than surgical gloves, not as thick as gardening gloves and 100% more flexible and form-fitting).
The breath coming out of my nose was fogging the glasses up, which made me have to take the gloves off, then take the glasses off, clean them, put the glasses back on, wipe the hair away from my eyes (which fall into my eyes when I take my glasses off), put the glasses back on, and re-adjust the mask, which at this point is either IN my eyes, or has slipped down to my nostrils.
Imagine having to do that for a 6-hour shift. Not gonna happen. If I were a cashier or pharmacy tech, it would be pretty easy to maintain wearing a mask, and I'd probably do that. But as a grocery clerk who is constantly bending over and climbing and lifting boxes and being jostled by product - or a cart person who spends a lot of time outside in the sweltering sweat-creating heat, or a carriage-cleaner, who is moving VERY fast in a very hot vestibule and also being very sweaty, all the time - it's just not practical.
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