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By George Robbins

Cinemark theaters has very recently announced that they are finally getting ready to reopen their doors to the public for the first time in three months. The theater chain has plans to reopen as many of their theaters nationwide as possible on June 19th in order to start earning revenue again since theaters are in a lot of financial trouble right now. They have been completely shut down since the middle of March when the pandemic was announced in order to try and stop the rate of newly infected people from climbing. So with this in mind the idea for theaters reopening was that they would have to come up with ways to follow the newest health guidelines to prevent the spread of infection. For some reason though, they will not require people to wear masks.

The theater chain will be having a phased reopening, meaning that they will not be immediately reopening every location at once or at full capacity. First of all, their not opening at full capacity is because they are not allowed to have people be close enough to one another to go against the social distancing rules. Next, they can’t reopen everywhere because theaters are considered high risk businesses and are among the most likely places for the disease to spread. This is why many states will not be allowing them to properly reopen until a later date when they know whether the risk will be too great or not. On top of these things, the theater chain must enforce that their employees wear masks and keep the buildings clean.

So with all of this in mind, how does it make any sense that they would not enforce people having to wear face masks. Simply not making people wear them can drastically increase the amount of infected people even if they are not at full capacity. It is understandable that people are starting to get annoyed by the fact that they have to wear them whenever they go out to any businesses, but it is for a good reason. They even have to enforce the fact that people working for them must still wear the masks anyway and yet customers for some reason don’t have to. They are at this point allowing people to be responsible for whether they want to make others sick or not.

While it has been stated that guests will be encouraged to wear masks for their own safety and the safety of others, it is a fact that a lot of people don’t care and don’t want to wear the masks anymore. This is why health guidelines now pretty much dictate that policy is that people must wear the masks in most public places. If it isn’t an enforced rule, that only increases the danger that everyone else is thrust into. As of now the United States has the most number of cases worldwide and the most number of deaths and it will only continue to get worse instead of better like most people hope for if people keep doing stupid things. They shouldn’t make it an optional thing and should at least try and enforce it for health and safety reasons instead of trying to draw people into the theaters by making a statement like that.