Ouray Mountain Sports employee Ross Williams stands outside the business on Wednesday to ensure shoppers read the signs and understand the expectations for entering the store. The store also set up the barrier outside to control traffic into the store and encourage mask compliance. Liz Teitz - Ouray County Plaindealer
Covid
To mask, or not to mask, that is the conflict
Some Ouray County business owners are calling on elected officials to require masks indoors, citing confrontations with visitors who refuse to follow the businesses’ rules.
Local governments thus far have encouraged — but not required — people to wear face coverings, leaving it up to individual business owners to decide whether they’ll require customers to wear them and how they’ll enforce that decision. Expectations vary from business to business, creating conflicting messages for peop...
