Covid 19 coronavirus: Whanganui woman says she is target of abuse over her mask
10 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
A Whanganui woman says for the past few months she has received daily verbal abuse for her choice to wear a mask whenever she is out in public. Lorina Winsor, who suffers from emphysema, said it was rare for her to leave her house without someone commenting on her mask and it had made her consider leaving Whanganui altogether. Through the lockdown levels it wasn t a problem that people were wearing masks, but over the last few months I ve had people from off the street telling me to take it off, Winsor said.