FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
How do you encourage people to wear a mask while avoiding confrontation? This app could help [The Seattle Times]
Dec. 15—Some of the most extraordinary ideas ignite in the most ordinary moments.
One summer day, RealNetworks founder and CEO Rob Glaser stopped into a Tukwila 7-Eleven with his son for a Slurpee after a game of mini-golf. The only people in the store wearing a mask were the two of them and the clerk.
“Isn’t there a rule?” Glaser asked the clerk. Yes, she said, but there was no way to enforce it.
“If I say anything,” she said of unmasked customers, “they yell.”