Perfect: Texas Bar Owner Asks Mask-Wearers to ‘Stay Home Until It’s Safe’
By Stephen Kruiser
How Do You Drink Beer Through a Mask Anyway?!?
A bar owner in Elgin, Texas, has posted a subtle, but biting, announcement to the mask-wearing scolds who may wander into his establishment. It was so perfectly put that I’m legit thinking of taking a road trip now. Without a mask on, of course.
“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 over 10,000 residents in 2018, has recorded 52 cases of 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.”
This is probably a good time to say, “Not all heroes wear capes.”
I have been a mask skeptic since all of this began. It is day 53,427,921 of this pandemic panic and I have yet to wear one. That is a mostly hollow boast, as I really don’t go anywhere other than out to ride my bike three or four mornings a week. I just purchased one because a friend of mine in Los Angeles has been earning income in her COVID-induced time off from work by making and selling them and I wanted to support that cause.
Also, I want to take a Lyft to one of my favorite bars on Saturday so I can get my day-drink on and Lyft is now requiring passengers to wear masks.
I have yet to figure out how to enjoy a beer or three while wearing a mask.