Texas bar owner bans customers with masks
The owner of an Elgin, Texas, bar has posted a notice barring any customers wearing masks.
“Due to our concern for our citizens, if they feel the need to wear a mask, then they should probably stay home until it’s safe,” the notice outside the Liberty Tree Tavern reads, according to a local NBC affiliate.
The city, which had just more than 10,000 residents in 2018, has recorded 52 cases of the coronavirus during the pandemic.
The establishment’s co-owner Kevin Smith told the station the notice was meant as a “push back” against “the snitches and the contact tracers out there,” saying “this is still a rural county.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/499753-texas-bar-owner-bans-customers-with-masks
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...but only if I get infected with the virus.
