March 22, 2021 02:05 PM UTC

Poll: How Long Will You Keep Your Mask On?

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• by: Colorado Pols

AP reports via CBS4 as the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel gets brighter:

Colorado’s health department is moving to relax its statewide mask mandate and limits on gathering capacity, saying the state’s role in determining COVID-19 restrictions will lessen in favor of more local control as vaccination eligibility opens more widely.

The proposal announced Friday would allow local authorities and “private entities” in the counties with the lowest coronavirus infection rates to determine whether or not masks would be required. It would also end most restrictions on capacity for restaurants, personal services providers, retailers, manufacturers, health care providers or outdoor events.

If everything goes well, the individual mask mandate in Colorado would end on Easter Sunday, April 4–although private businesses can continue to enforce their own requirements like private businesses always could. As for when individuals should consider it safe and prudent to stop wearing masks in public? That depends–and we’re curious what your own plans are. How long will you keep wearing a mask voluntarily after Gov. Jared Polis relents from forcing you to wear one under penalty of death?*

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*Dramatization