{"id":740,"date":"2021-10-15T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cw1.tempurl.host\/nanaimo-mall-first-on-vancouver-island-with-mandatory-masks-temperature-checks\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:07:42","slug":"nanaimo-mall-first-on-vancouver-island-with-mandatory-masks-temperature-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/nanaimo-mall-first-on-vancouver-island-with-mandatory-masks-temperature-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanaimo mall first on Vancouver Island with mandatory masks, temperature checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca\/nanaimo-mall-first-on-vancouver-island-with-mandatory-masks-temperature-checks-1.5121043\">https:\/\/vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca\/nanaimo-mall-first-on-vancouver-island-with-mandatory-masks-temperature-checks-1.5121043<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Brendan Strain, CTV News Vancouver Island Journalist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO &#8212; A Nanaimo mall is the first major shopping centre on Vancouver Island to implement new COVID-19 safety measures, including mandatory masks and temperature checks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been other retail outlets but not actual shopping centres that have taken this stance as a centre,&#8221; said Woodgrove Centre spokesperson Amber Cronk.<\/p>\n<p>Some shoppers are keen on the idea but others think it\u2019s a safety measure with a few holes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting because they don\u2019t enforce the masks once you\u2019re inside,\u201d said one shopper. \u201cSo you can take them off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodgrove Centre staff say they\u2019re working with individuals on a case-by-case basis on enforcing the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Many of mall&#8217;s retailers have already implemented mandatory masks within individual stores.<\/p>\n<p>Even though other shopping centres on the island have not implemented mandatory masks, most customers are donning them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sort of symbol of doing something, a symbol of: you care about me,\u201d said Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater with the department of psychology at the University of Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Leadbeater said there\u2019s a reason why we see so many people wearing masks in stores, even though it hasn\u2019t been mandated from the province or many other private operators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn situations where what you\u2019re doing feels like it protects you and the people you care about, you\u2019re even more likely to do it,\u201d said Leadbeater.<\/p>\n<p>For some, the thought of going to a shopping centre under the umbrella of COVID-19 can be pretty scary.<\/p>\n<p>April Ponsford just finished a year-long battle with cancer and her immune system is still rebuilding itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have just been through, quite frankly, hell over the last year,\u201d said Ponsford. \u201cWe need to protect one another, we need to be a community that cares for one another and there\u2019s just no harm in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butchart Gardens will make masks mandatory as of Oct. 1, joining Vancouver Island retailers, including Mountain Equipment Co-op and Walmart, in implementing the practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nanaimo mall is the first major shopping centre on Vancouver Island to implement new COVID-19 safety measures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-our-community-zh-hans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralwalk.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}