As an American you have a right not to wear a mask.
But, just like you, businesses have a right to NOT let you in. Not serve you.
You can't have it both ways... You are free to make a choice, but that means accepting the consequences of your actions...
Screaming at employees and businesses for protecting their workers and customers does not make you a patriot, it makes you an asshole.
Don't mistake inconvenience for oppression.
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I agree. You?
Of course I agree that business owners have the right to not serve people, why wouldn’t I.
I saw this posted on FB as well. It led to the usual pro-mask vitriol directed at me for clearly agreeing with the point. I simply added that both choices...to wear or not wear a mask, and to require or not require the wearing of masks before entering a business...carry consequences that in rational times were acknowledged by all parties. Now, while I consider the wearing of masks to be a personal choice not necessarily backed by solid science, I don't attack those who make that choice for themselves, despite how goofy it looks for people to wear them driving alone in their cars or walking about in the open air with the sun shining. Yet, for daring to suggest that I don't wear them, somehow I'm unfeeling, uncaring and lacking concern for my fellow man. Well, if I thought it would make a substantial difference, I'd wear them despite my own problems wearing one provokes. I don't get being attacked over what might be the case but is in no way proven to be. Erring on the side of caution might seem to make sense, but it seems to me there should be a bit more reason to believe such erring is rational.
Art,
I agree with you, and with the post, that we have the freedom to choose whether to wear a mask or not. If you want (like I saw a while back) to wear a mask that looks like you're preparing for trench warfare along the Somme, then go for it.
I think the point here is that our actions have consequences and you look foolish bitching about the consequences of your own actions. Secondarily, I think that this is pointing out that businesses do have latitude in deciding who they serve.
Of course there's always been a "no shoes, no shirt, no service" policy at most places of business. I'd submit there's a more legitimate argument defending that policy than the mask policy. But again, if that's what a business chooses to do, then it's only a problem for them if competitors don't follow suit, giving the public another option.
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