for BigTrial.net
Walking defiantly bare-faced through the Reading Terminal Market yesterday afternoon, I noticed that I had plenty of company.
The guys tucking tender roast pork into seeded Sarcone's rolls at DiNic's were going maskless; so were the guys hawking boneless and skinless chicken breasts and thighs at Godshall's Poultry.
Inside the crowded terminal, a clear majority of customers and tourists that I passed were also going barefaced. In Jim Kenney's kingdom, the peasants were in open rebellion.
"It's not being enforced," a cashier at Iovine Brothers Produce told me when I asked about the city's laughable decision to try and reimpose the mask mandate.
Just hours later, the Kenney administration caved. In advance of having to defend itself in a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court against a group of angry restaurant and business owners who were seeking an immediate injunction, our clown of a mayor decided after just four days to wave the white flag on that mask thing.
