My answer is not directed at anyone specific, just taking in everything said above.
Not the same question, because it’s about people who have to wear a mask 8 hours a day with a break for lunch, many of whom work full time. That’s very different than a customer wearing a mask for an hour while out shopping. It’s not very inconvenient or anyone for a customer, because it’s momentary.
Also, we aren’t going to start asking customers for their vaccine credentials nor are employers going to demand vaccinations in this scenario, but if an employee wants to voluntarily show they were vaccinated to get the benefit of being able to go maskless, that would be their choice.
I agree though that some customers would be annoyed and take it as an excuse to go maskless.
In my opinion it might be too soon now, but I think it will make sense in another month or so. I want the employees who have been working this whole time taking risks, wearing masks, to be able to get a break. The chance of them getting sick is extremely low if they are vaccinated, unless something changes with the new variants.
On a side note, I want everyone masked up November through March every year for flu season, and fir it to become more common in trains and planes even if we don’t have any sort of official epidemic or pandemic going on.