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County Commission Chair Bryan Lober says he wants to make a condition for small businesses and nonprofits who want to receive CARES Act Federal Grants, that they must have a placard posted indicating masks are required in their business.
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On June 30th, the Commission as a whole rejected Lober’s proposal that would have forced businesses to require masks. The measure failed 4-1.
Since then, some local Brevard municipalities have been implementing their own policies.
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“While I genuinely believe that our failure to act on June 30 resulted in and continues to result in numerous wholly avoidable infections — some of which almost certainly have caused and/or will cause deaths — it is not too late to do something,” Lober wrote in memo he sent today to the other four commissioners.
“When your mother, sister or daughter is placed on a ventilator and dies from this, you will likely stop pointing to the low — I use the term ‘low’ with unease — percentage death rate, so as to suggest that it is acceptable,” Lober wrote. “While only a small percentage of the overall population has died due to this virus, any avoidable death is one too many.”