A Montreal woman with a serious health condition was refused entry to her local grocery store for not wearing a face mask despite having a doctor’s note with her.
Anne Schlenker shared that she was turned away not once, but two days in a row from an IGA located in the city’s downtown area.
For her entire life, the 61-year old has been living with a serious neurological condition that can cause her chronic and excruciating pain. The level of pain can be so unbearable that the condition – trigeminal neuralgia – has been dubbed the suicide disease.
Schlenker shared that she is not against wearing a face mask but in her case, it is not possible.
The Quebec government has ordered that anyone in an indoor public place must wear a mask but has exempted people with medical conditions from the new policy. Authorities stated that a doctor’s note was not even necessary.
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https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/09/30/mask-guidelines-covid-faq/?arc404=true