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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
You're wrong... again....
You CANNOT legally ban someone from entering a store due to a disability.
By law a store CANNOT ask someone what disability they have much less ask them to provide proof of it, but they can ask if someone has a disability.
This is why the announcements from the supermarkets are unfortunately just a token gesture.
Thankfully what you have posted will not occur, imagine telling a group of people in society that they can only shop at certain hours to keep another group of people happy.
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I don't think it's tokenism. If the supermarkets really do the maximum permissible under the Equality Act it will be enough to force the majority of anti-maskers to cave in rather than tell a direct lie about having a disability. After all, if you're taking a principled stand, what's the point lying about it?
They should be able to significantly reduce the problem of unmasked people in their stores, without doing anything illegal.