Businesses and local governments are taking stands in different ways:• American Airlines barred a conservative activist from one of its flights after he refused to wear a mask. It’s the latest sign of how seriously airlines are taking the matter: Delta suggested earlier this week that passengers who won’t wear a mask may be barred from future flights. • AMC said that it won’t mandate that masks be worn at its movie theaters when they reopen, in what its C.E.O., Adam Aron, said was an effort not to be “drawn into a political controversy.” Of course, a political controversy ensued. • California will require face coverings in most public situations, including in indoor venues and outdoors when social distancing is impossible. But in Nebraska, the Republican governor, Pete Ricketts, threatened to withhold $100 million in federal relief funds to municipalities that mandate mask-wearing in government offices.

Source: New York Times June 19, 2020 11:24 UTC