Leaders In Rock Hill, Ft. Mill Approve City-Wide Mask Requirement

Trish Williford,

ROCK HILL, S.C. — City leaders in Ft. Mill and Rock Hill approved an ordinance requiring residents wear masks in public.  The number of people infected with COVID-19 across South Carolina is staggering and the cases are increasing daily.

Because of this, the Rock Hill City Council passed a city-wide emergency ordinance requiring residents wear masks in public for the next 60 days.

Under the ordinance, people must wear masks inside any business, including gyms, all retail and service businesses must require staff to wear masks.  Exceptions would include religious and medical reasons. Violators could be fined 25 dollars.

Rock Hill Residents spoke out for and against the mask requirement.
“I just think that we’re being played.  You only need to do a little bit of research to realize the media and political agenda are taking us for a ride. There’s that phrase, never let a good crisis go to waste,” says
Rebecca Lugthart – Rock Hill Resident.

“I’m a survivor of this Covid 19.  I spent 16 days on a ventilator.  If people are wearing their masks none of this would’ve happened to me,” says Ernest Rodriguez, COVID-19 Survivor.

Ft. Mill’s mask requirement goes into effect Wednesday.  Rock Hill’s begins Friday.  City leaders in York will take up the issue Tuesday.