[BCMA] To mask or not to mask?

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Fri Mar 11 10:47:32 PST 2022


Hello from Revelstoke.  At the Revelstoke Railway Museum, we had a comprehensive set of COVID protocols similar to what everyone else was doing, including taking down visitor information for contact tracing purposes.  We did not go as far as requiring vaccine passports.  

 

Our new messaging is that masks are no longer required, but they are still recommended.  We have retained several elements of our COVID protocol, and staff and volunteers in all visitor-facing roles will remain masked.   We have hand sanitizer dispensers everywhere and still ask visitors to sanitize before entering high touch areas – our elevator, the locomotive simulator, and the museum store.   We ceased taking down contact tracing information a few weeks ago and are removing our one-way routing around the museum.  

 

We are fortunate that Tourism Revelstoke publishes a set of “Revy Rules” which sets a consistent tone for visitors to Revelstoke.  I don’t know if they will publish a new set with the relaxation of mask mandates but we will be supporting this community messaging.  

 

Hope things get easier, your situation in downtown Victoria sounds awful!

 

Best

Jim Cullen

Executive Director

 

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Subject: [BCMA] To mask or not to mask?

 

Hi everyone,

 

With the latest health mandates update today, we at the Maritime Museum of BC in Victoria are wondering about what to do with our public mask policy… Do we keep it to ensure safety for all? Or, do we simply encourage it but not require it? 

 

Since the trucker’s convoy started in late January, we have been dealing with unmasked, un-vaccinated individuals coming into our space and harassing our young staff and senior volunteers about our policy. We’ve had to close during Saturday afternoons due to the noise level from the streets (we are right downtown). We’ve been locking our front door, even during public hours, on Saturdays and asking to see masks and vaccine passports through the windowed doors before letting visitors in to try to keep our staff/volunteers safe from the harassment we’ve been experiencing (though we still had a harasser slip through when we opened the door to let someone out). And now, we’re facing the possibility of more vehicles coming into downtown Victoria every weekday starting next week.

                                                                                                                                                                                 

So with these latest mandate changes, we’re feeling like we’re caught between the choice of keeping our space as safe as we can and continue requiring masks and possibly inviting more harassment, or allowing masks to be optional to try to minimize the harassment we have been dealing with while compromising our safety protocols… 

 

What is everyone else planning to do about masks? 

 

Many thanks,

Brittany

 

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Brittany V. Vis, MLIS (she, her)

Executive Director

250-385-4222 ext. 106

 <http://mmbc.bc.ca/> Maritime Museum of British Columbia

 

The Maritime Museum of BC is on the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, specifically the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, who have respected these lands and waters for thousands of years.

 



 

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