What a Grocery Manager Won’t Say to Anti-Maskers

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Enforcing Montana’s statewide mask mandate is part of supermarket manager John Steenwyk’s job. It puts him in the crosshairs of anti-maskers, and while he tells them a lot of things to convince them to wear masks, there’s one thing he won’t say to them, even though he could. CNN Senior Writer Thomas Lake tells the story of a battle over masks playing out in a grocery store at the edge of Yellowstone National Park. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'd say one in forty walk in without a mask and of those maybe ten percent are going
0:11.6	to argue with you.
0:12.6	I mean, at this point, it's not a huge percentage.
0:15.9	It's just the ones that do argue are the ones that ruin your day.
0:20.1	That's John Steenwick.
0:21.1	He's a manager at the Gardner Market in Gardner, Montana.
0:24.4	It's at the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park.
0:28.2	You might stop there for a cold drink or a sandwich on your way to see the majestic
0:32.2	waterfall at artist's point.
0:34.9	Outside the store, you'll see a sign.
0:37.7	No mask, no service, no exceptions.
0:42.2	Enforcing the statewide mask mandate is part of John's job, which puts him in some tense
0:48.3	situations.
0:49.3	I had someone call it the *** Democratic flu.
0:53.7	I've had people hand me those fake.
0:57.7	I don't have to wear a mask card so that they print out at home.
1:01.2	And the guy that handed it to me, it was a folded up piece of paper in his pocket and said,
1:05.6	I have this and I said, I don't care.
1:08.4	If you don't have a mask, he'll offer you one.
1:11.2	If you say your medical condition prevents you from wearing one, he'll offer a curbside
1:15.5	delivery for your groceries.
1:17.7	If you keep arguing, keep resisting, he might say this.
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