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Does anyone know if rec center personnel are required to wear masks?

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984 Old Mill Run
The Villages, FL 32162

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When I go in rec center and get closer than 6 feet they mask up, course I am wearing mask. Once I make my way to pool table and there is no one within 10 feet I take mask off.

If people come in I move away from them. if they get close I mask up if the occupy table next to me. If anybody in room is coughing I immediately leave.

Last time I read the instructions said mask recommended?

Yes Rec center employees are required to wear mask

The OP is asking if employees at the rec center are *required* to wear masks. They're not asking whether or not guests can consider optional.

By my observation they are “required” IAW CDC guidelines. I guess if the OP wants LEGAL determination they can call the number provided by boogie. Thank you for you’re opinion.

YES They are required to wear masks.

Good common sense approach , protect yourself, others are on their own.

Why, do you want to get one of these minimum wage employees in trouble? Just wear your mask and stay away from people.

I assume by your question that someone wasnt wearing a mask. Instead of looking to get them in trouble, just leave. Simple

They are NOT REQUIRED to wear a mask unless you get within 6 feet of them. Can you imagine wearing a mask 8 hours when there is. No one in the building. Very unhealthy that would be.

Masks are requested.....employees should wear them if within 6 ft of someone, indoors.

That is what the rec center employees are doing at the sport's pool at Colony Rec Center. I can see the employee putting on the mask as I approach the desk that is set up outside the locker rooms. Works for me. I guess I'd be fine with it inside also but....there is a chance of aerosols lingering in the air of an indoor space if any employees are asymptomatic carriers of the virus. It would be better if the employees kept their masks on and take breaks every once in a while. Isn't that what the employees in our grocery stores and other public indoor buildings have to do?

Aerosol lingering is not reported as true by the cdc ,it is media driven. The “death clouds are fiction’” masks are only required if you are unable to maintain six feet distance.

But I thought wearing of the mask is intended to protect "others"!?

Why? If they are required to wear masks, why should I just leave (missing my class, meeting, or recreational activity, or maybe I came in to pick up guest passes) because someone in charge is not following the employer's rules?


Everybody needs to pay attention and do his/her part to help stop this ugly beast of a virus.

If masks worked the virus would be gone by now... Remember 14 days to slow the spread. All any of this has done is prolong the inevitable.

IMO you have that backwards. If everyone wore a mask, the virus would have been gone a long time ago.


Regardless if masks are required by rec center employees, they should be worn.

Why would you ask. I dont care who wears what. I protect myself, that is my responsibility.

Could you supply your source please? This is contrary to everything I have read.

This is from the CDC website this morning.
Scientific Brief: SARS-CoV-2 and Potential Airborne Transmission | CDC

It's not unhealthy to wear a mask for long durations, if necessary. I'm a retired health care professional and we wore masks for 10 hrs - 12 hrs a day depending on the length of our shift.

Seriously... do you really believe that?

A simple question that could be answered with a phone call has once again turned into a debate on mask use. This debate appears to never have a conclusion.......

For Gods sake!
Facts ruin arguments!!:icon_wink:

CDC Seems to change its information daily!!!!! So which information should you believe . The WHO DOES THE SAME !!

You did not wear the same mask all day long. No you did not. Nor were you wearing homemade cloth masks. You were in a sterile environment, wearing medical grade masks and you were regularly washing your hands and switching out your gloves and your masks.

I'm not picking on you but it truly troubles me when medical people make these kinds of comparisons.

Is it true that a gym or grocery store is a sterile environment? Is it true that homemade cloth masks are sterile and as high a quality as medical grade masks? Is it safe for a cashier to be wearing/touching/adjusting a non sterile, non medical grade cloth mask all day long while scanning merchandise that has been touched by multiple hands?

Thanks for the Facts vs. Fiction
 

Thanks for giving us the facts with the appropriate source. Unfortunately, some people just refuse to accept the truth about how dangerous this pandemic is. e.g., they believe it is no worse than the flu. Even more unfortunately, they do not take the precautions the rest of us do, which leads to even more spreading of the disease.

From what I've seen there is still high compliance in the stores and other crowded venues. People are being as patient about this as they can be. The more they are scolded and threatened with mandates, the weaker the compliance will be.

I walked into a store the other day w/o a mask on - not because I was being defiant but because I literally thought that I had one on. Oops. When I realized I didn't have one on, I put it on. No big deal. I don't think that anyone DIED from my momentary lapse. I saw a delivery driver pop into another store w/o a mask on his face to deliver a package. I doubt that he contaminated the entire store in that brief time he was in there.

We have got to use some common sense with this and give people the benefit of the doubt or people are just going to get frustrated and stop even trying to placate others by wearing masks.

That and why didn't the OP question the "evil doer" about their lack of a mask?

Why are you going to these classes, meetings or recreational activities where you are possibly exposed to the virus? How do you know that all the participants in theses activities aren't infected? You are ultimately responsible for your safety, not some one else.

Totally untrue, masks cannot and will not stop the spread of the virus.

Indoor air brings up the problem and the need for there to be a high turnover of air in commercial indoor buildings. I am curious whether The Villages rec centers have made modifications to increase turnover. For example, hospitals turn the air over at a rate of 12 times per hour. Normal buildings turn the air over ONE time per hour.

Newest research shows that it protects BOTH the wearer and those around them.

The other day at my doctor's office the nurse checked my oxygen level as well as BP, pulse, etc. My oxygen level was 89. She told me to pull up my mask and take a couple breaths, my oxygen went up to it's normal 98. She said that she was seeing that a lot of people had low oxygen levels wearing masks. She has been a RN for a few decades now, so is she a liar?

I'm sure there are a number of people who will be really happy to hear that, though those who have already passed will be a bit harder to contact.

Wearing a mask can help protect both the wearer and those around them.

My cynical side wonders if this newest research didn't conveniently appear in order to increase mask compliance. If people weren't wearing masks to protect others then maybe they would wear them to protect themselves. Unfortunately, the "experts" had been telling people masks didn't work that way. But look! There's a new study that says.....

Medical scientists say that masks work. You are "opinionating" that they don't. Logic says that I believe ALL the experts.......sorry

Guaranteed, that if 90% wore their masks 90% of the time that the US would be back to "normal" like South Korea and New Zealand. The US citizens are too stubborn for their own good. They are like "herding cats". Hear kitty-kitty please, please wear your mask, please you stupid pu**y!

Thank you, Tiny Person. Both for your great service and your great post. Keep up the good work!

I agree, but is anyone else disturbed by the major Danish study released yesterday that the kind mask we are able to obtain have no value in protecting the wearer (something I have long suspected based on what I learned in microbiology in college classes), and that there "may" be a very low level of protection to others from you ? This is the reason public officials like the president elect and others wear N95 masks under their fashion masks. The study released last week done on our own marine recruits in training barracks found the same thing ! Startling stats that the wearing of cotton and cloth masks do not protect from a virus but could possibly stop the actual water vapor as in when someone sneezes directly on you, or your food. I wonder if "some day" we are going to find out that this virus is spreads and effects in a way we never even thought of ? Such as certain genetic markers found in our various cultural ethnicity's or cultures ? I have always questioned my "mind", or what's left of it, LOL, knowing what I do know about microbiology, microbes, bacteria, etc. (and believe me, I am not an expert for sure, just a little education in that area) for walking around with my Disney character mask on thinking I am protected in any way for the virus (not the water vapor surrounding it) penetrating cotton ? Sometimes I think some actual experts must know this, but, feel it's better psychologically for a population to feel they have some degree of personal control over their own safety rather than have the multiply dangers of a population overcome with anxiety (crowd madness), causing stark changes in personalities, behaviors, etc. ? What we think of a panic and people becoming "unlike" themselves ? Food for thought ?