Collected Item: “Wichita Must Mask Up”
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Wichita Must Mask Up
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Photograph
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After the Sedgwick County Commission voted 3-2 to not implement the governor's order, Mayor Brandon Whipple of Wichita convened an emergency session of the City Council to debate and vote on a city-wide ordnance to require all Wichita citizens to wear masks in public places where social distancing was not possible. By a vote of 4-3, Mayor Whipple's ordnance passed and became effective immediately, thus prompting local businesses to post signs like this one on their establishments. This sign reflects the first time during the pandemic that mask-wearing became an enforced mandate in Wichita, as the city struggled to control a virus that seemed to be at controllable levels just a few weeks before this photo was taken.
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Aaron Peterka
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2020-07-06