{"id":53517,"date":"2020-06-05T00:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-allows-businesses-to-refuse-maskless-customers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:04:59","slug":"colorado-governor-allows-businesses-to-refuse-maskless-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-allows-businesses-to-refuse-maskless-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado governor allows businesses to refuse maskless customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a8153dc5-2aa5-4133-a962-8696a8515414&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1020\" alt=\"Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at the Colorado Convention Center in this photo from April 10.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at the Colorado Convention Center in this photo from April 10.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jesse Paul\/The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday unveiled an<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this executive order, it\u2019s fine for businesses across our state to say to say \u2018no shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service,\u2019\u201d Polis said.<\/p>\n<p>The order is the latest effort by Polis to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the state. The governor said he believes businesses already have the legal authority to deny people service if they aren\u2019t wearing a mask, but he wanted to clear up any gray areas that may exist after conflicts have arisen.<\/p>\n<p>In Aurora, a 27-year-old man was charged with attempted first-degree murder after he allegedly shot a Waffle House employee who asked him to wear a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a woman in Aurora was violently attacked in a Target after asking a group of people to give her more space out of social distancing concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Polis said businesses absolutely have the right to protect their employees and their customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be that guy \u2014 wear a mask,\u201d Polis said at a news conference at the governor\u2019s mansion in Denver, during which he unveiled the order. \u201c\u2026 Wearing a mask is easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polis also announced a public service campaign urging Coloradans to wear masks on Thursday, including a video. He said billboards will go up around the state encouraging people to cover their faces.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office said much campaign\u2019s costs are being covered by philanthropic groups. There will also be digital advertising as part of the effort.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 27,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in Colorado, though officials caution there are likely many times more that who have been infected but who have yet to be tested or are asymptomatic.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,500 people who have contracted the disease have died, 1,254 of those directly because of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe danger remains very real,\u201d Polis said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Don\u2019t be that guy \u2013 wear a mask,\u2019 Polis says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,685,21,819,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-gov-jared-polis","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88307,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53517\/revisions\/88307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53517"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}