Elrich: Indoor Masks Must be Worn so Businesses Can Stay Open

Montgomery County will continue requiring indoor mask wearing until the number of coronavirus cases drop, and County Executive Marc Elrich believes residents can live with it as they did earlier for 18 months.

“We are going to keep going ’til our numbers fit the CDC,” he said of the Centers for Disease Control, which recommends indoor mask wearing for anyone in communities with substantial case loads, which Montgomery County currently is considered.

“I am not getting a lot of pushback when I go out. Most people say thank you very much,” Elrich told MyMCM.

To those who consider mask wearing an infringement of their rights, Elrich wonders if they also think the wearing of seat belts is an infringement. The whole goal of bringing back indoor mask wearing, he said, is to stop the spread of COVID-19 while keeping businesses open.

“The last thing we need are unvaccinated people, some with families no doubt, getting their kids sick, and then sending the kids into a school where anyone can get sick.”

Listen to what Elrich told MyMCM.

🔬We are, again, going in the wrong direction as there were 120 new #COVID19 cases reported today, Aug. 10, in @MontgomeryCoMD. We have also had one more death since Aug 7, bringing our total number of deaths to 1,586. For more metrics 💻➡️ https://t.co/IiZziUOpMj. #MaskUpMoCo pic.twitter.com/jzjwwmIrJK

— County Exec Marc Elrich (@MontCoExec) August 10, 2021

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