“I personally love it,” said Bailey. “But it’s hard because everyone has their own opinion.”
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper lifted the mandate for most settings along with social distancing and mass gathering limitations May 14. But the war on whether masks should be worn is far from over.
Bailey, owner of Uptown Sweets, has had to tread lightly throughout the pandemic as she deals with people’s opinions about whether customers should wear masks. Bailey has not put pressure on her employees to enforce the previous mask mandate because some of them are new to the working world, and she doesn’t want their experience to be baptism by fire.