Return of indoor mask mandate? Restaurant worker and doctor weigh in

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Servers often feel pressure from customers to remove their masks. “Somebody will say, ‘Oh, you can take the mask off with me, it's fine,’” says Kristhy Morales, a server from Burbank. “Or they are a little more hostile and say, ‘What? I can't understand you.’ And so you speak slowly enunciated and everything, and it's still a little bit of a tense situation. So just try to take that with a grain of salt and just do your job.”

Servers often feel pressure from customers to remove their masks. “Somebody will say, ‘Oh, you can take the mask off with me, it's fine,’” says Kristhy Morales, a server from Burbank. “Or they are a little more hostile and say, ‘What? I can't understand you.’ And so you speak slowly enunciated and everything, and it's still a little bit of a tense situation. So just try to take that with a grain of salt and just do your job.” Photo by Shutterstock.

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Host:

Steve Chiotakis

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Jenna Kagel, Giuliana Mayo, Rebekah Ludman