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Opinion: Mask requirement doesn’t challenge constitutional rights

A Publix employee pushes shopping carts through the parking lot Tuesday, July 21, 2020, on Thompson Bridge Road. Beginning on Tuesday the supermarket requires customers to wear face masks. - photo by Scott Rogers

07222020 RETAILERS 3.jpg — A Publix employee pushes shopping carts through the parking lot Tuesday, July 21, 2020, on Thompson Bridge Road. Beginning on Tuesday the supermarket requires customers to wear face masks. - photo by Scott Rogers

Almost every infectious disease medical doctor, and almost all of the known data worldwide regarding COVID-19, tells us masks are a front-line protection against contracting or passing on this virus, which is a potential deadly weapon non-mask wearers are pointing at everyone else.