A Texas couple wore face masks at a restaurant to protect their immunocompromised infant. The owner asked them to leave

You do understand that people being asked to take them off in some establishments is in response to people being asked to wear them in others right? You do realize that a response to one action cannot be used as justification for the action that instigated the response in the first place?

To use an example you can better understand... If I were to punch you in the face, and you punched me back, does the fact you punched me back give me justification for punching you initially? The answer is no. So the hypocrisy here that a restaurant asking people to take masks off eliminates any right to complain when restaurants ask someone to put them on is completely bass ackwards logic.

You cheered for restaurants kicking people out for not wearing one. Well, that sets the precedent that it's okay for another restaurant to kick someone out for not taking one off. Unless of course, you're a hypocrite.

More likely you're making things up again. This is why we have division. People like you creating false information for an agenda.

If they were asked to take it off at the door, and put it back on, they were looking for confrontation on the matter. They were looking for their 15 minutes of fame. What a coincidence they just happened to find one of the few restaurants in town with a no-mask policy.

You don't have all the facts. Got it. But stop lying about the events.

@LJS9502_basic: He is making shit up so he can start a fight. Nothing new. Look at his reply to me, he loves to fight people and spread hypocrisy.

Masks and no masks is a False equivalence and he knows it. Crying about having to wear one while bullying people who do is hypocrisy.

Really? Which facts am I missing exactly? What insider information is it that only you know? Do you have some proof otherwise? If they were told at the door to take it off, they did, but put it back on then they were deliberately and intentionally doing something they knew they weren't allowed to do.

They're not victims.

I go by that what is written and makes sense. A bar restaurant with no-mask dress code will inform their guests when they enter. I highly doubt people get in, sit down and when they are about to order "Surprise No Mask Policy"!

The couple says they were out with friends, a group. It doesnt look like they included their company in their story, meaning they were left alone because they didnt wear masks anymore? Meaning the group they were a part of was made aware of the no mask policy, and the ones who didnt comply was the new parents.

They kinda look like the types, dont they....

the masks don't do anything to prevent spread of virus? what nonsense is that? The chances of you catching covid while wearing a mask are tiny, not unless theres big holes in it. The problem is theres too many morons that don't wear a mask, or they think its safe once they're indoors at their workplace, when in fact thats the most dangerous place, or they invite extended family over to their homes thinking that family can't get covid and don't wear a mask around them. Stupidity all around.

Lemme get this straight.

They have an immunocompromised newborn at home.

So they wanted to go out to a restaurant and eat, but still protect their newborn at home. By wearing masks, which, if the science is to be believed, is actually to protect OTHERS from you, not the other way around.

I mean, this restaurant owner is being ridiculous and petty imo, and I hope he loses business for such a dumb policy. But it's his dumb policy to make, and these people's choice whether to eat there and comply, or go elsewhere.

The couple are assholes as well in this story.

If they are so afraid for their kid, what the **** were they doing at a restaurant in the middle of a pandemic? Do they wear their masks 24/7 around the kid?

This sounds like a publicity stunt in order to get some sympathy bucks.

@rmpumper: Exactly. Nobody in this story has my sympathy except the baby.

Republicans touting their "freedoms" are idiots. (1) Supreme Court of US dealt with medical mandates 100 years ago. They're constitutional. (2) It's very rich Republicans tout freedoms when they're (a) anti-abortion, (b) gerrymandering experts, (c) they tell everyone what to do with their masks, (d) forcing small business to allow non-vaccinated, but then refusing to serve people wearing masks, (e) pro-voter ID, but no vaccine passport even though you need a driver's license or government issue id to enter a bar/pub/club regardless (f) this idea that the media etc. are wrong about the pandemic doesn't, you know, reconcile with the fact that every developed country on earth does not disagree with the data.

And so we're clear, I think the media are scumbags pushing an agenda and I think the government has mishandled the pandemic top to bottom, regardless of state or federal administration. Had they just come out and said, we know **** all about this virus, but wearing masks and social distancing work for everything else, I would've accepted it. I don't accept that I can go to Costco but can't go to a local restaurant. So I do understand the frustration. And I'm pissed off too.

Listen, I could go all day on this.

But to be fair, I will make the leftists know that their "woke", virtue signaling, identity politics, cancel culture nonsense, tax everyone to death, hypocrisy, is just as bad. @thenation@LJS9502_basic

Join me in the center. That's a good political slogan.

@sonic_spark: Either you have difficulty understanding what is posted or you're making up your own agenda. Either way since you clearly are ignorant of my political views then stop posting dishonesty. Arrogance is not a positive.

My only view on politics is that I'm economically conservative, socially liberal. In some ways I'd describe myself as a centrist, in others a left-leaning libertarian (I know, in the minority on that.)

I think the Republican party are snakes and morons. They've done nothing but a disservice to Republican voters (I won't say conservative because I don't think Republicans own the term.) Though I hate guns, anti-abortion, and this dated view on America.

I think the Democratic party have lost their minds. I feel for Biden because he's moderate but he's surrounded by media and a very vocal progressive minority in the house that is nothing but a headache (woke, cancel culture, censorship, etc.) Their own worst enemies is how I would describe the current party.

I read the comments, and am familiar with the posts all of you made. I call what I see. If I've wrongfully assessed your political views, correct me.

So much fail in your post I don't know where to start. Equating a vaccine passport which segregates half the country from the rest to voter identification? You can't be serious. Vaccine mandates 100 years ago were on a state by state bases written by and voted on by state legislatures, not by executive decree. Democrats gerrymander just as often as Republicans, if you think democrat redistricting isn't done in a manner that helps them win elections, youre deluded. And again, you try comparing executive degrees against mask mandates to the decision of individual businesses. There's a pretty fucking big difference there kid.

To be fair, that's not entirely clear from the wording of the article:

While the ban isn’t posted anywhere in writing, the hostess asks everyone who enters with a mask to take it off, Blackmer told The Post.

Wester, 23, said that’s what happened the night they came in, but she thought it was so the hostess could compare their faces to the photos on their IDs,a misunderstanding that may have been exacerbated because loud live music was playing. After they made their way into the restaurant, Wester and her husband, 25-year-old Jose Lopez, put the masks back on, met some friends and ordered drinks and an appetizer.

This isn't news or politics.

Sounds like fodder for chumps to read and bicker about for clicks

Still waiting for eoten and the rest of the farm to show the same anger when people refuse to wear them. Wont happen.

I see people go into places masks are required all the time and not get kicked out. That owner needs his business harmed by this.

Everything you accused me of is a lie. It's that simple. I read your comments. You are dishonest. I call what I see.

lol of course.

this reminds me of those idiot coal rollers.

some people just have to be antagonistic, born with a stupid gene i guess.

@comp_atkins: If you mean the owner.

Fine by me I think Hospitals should deny care for people that refused to wear the mask which has been proven to reduce the spread of Covid 2019, business should not be allowed to deny services at all unless there is some kind of misconduct by the customers

@sheep99: We are in the darkest days of the pandemic right now, over 130k cases and 2k dead all because conservatives wont do shit and even sabotage efforts to fight it. Truly disgusting.

Dude, what the **** are you even talking about? I've said from the beginning that it should be left up to individual businesses and not mandated by federal decree. What part of that is so hard for you to understand? And there is no anger, why would there be? The restaurant had as much right to do what they did as business that kick people out for not wearing them.

Does that include customers who do not wear masks?

@eoten: Case in point

You have no point, just incoherent ramblings of hypocrisy. If you can deny services to someone not wearing a mask, you can deny them to someone wearing them as well.

Equal application of rules and logic seems incomprehensible to you.

@eoten: yes why not

yeah, sorry. should have clarified.

@thenation: good let them die since its more republicans or trumpers that refuse to get vaccines or wear a mask, just means less voters for the Republican Party they want to be stupid let them be fine by me can’t even sit and have a normal conversation with dumb republicans and i am independent voter will always vote what is good for the country and put a party before the country, everything is conspiracy theory with them

I think I've stated at multiple points that "non-vaccinated" is not a protected demographic so you can't do shit about workplace vaccine mandates, but maintaining that stance I must also acknowledge that neither is "mask wearer."

That all said this story seems stupid on all accounts, dumb and selfish call to go out with an immunocompromised child at all, dumb for a restaurant to kick someone out for masking.

You're saying hospitals should be allowed to deny people healthcare if they don't wear a mask but businesses shouldn't be allowed to deny people who don't? There's no consistency there.

@eoten: There goes eoten personally attacking and missing the point….Again. Look up false equivalence before you run your mouth. You have yet to prove anything.

And yes, hospitals should be allowed and already are prioritizing care.

@LJS9502_basic: Dishonest? Based on what? Simply a meritless claim. This is a discussion gone nowhere.

What kind of low IQ moron would kick someone out for wearing a mask during a pandemic.

Roughly the same IQ of people who take an immunocompromised baby out to eat in public during a pandemic.

Ah yes. Playing fast and loose with facts again. That isn't what happened but you do you.

Agreed. Anyone who takes an immunocompromised baby to a restaurant during a pandemic is low IQ.

Just like , anyone who is anti-vacc or anti-mask during a pandemic is low IQ. (Barring the tiny % who have health issues doing both.)

"More likely, they heard around town this restaurant asks people to take their masks off and then decided to go there."

You need to back this quote up with citation.

Although I wouldn't expect an anti-vaxxer and anti-masker to ever provide facts or proof. Quite amazing how people can be so scientifically illiterate and willing to die because of a crazy cult (Q-Anon).

@vl4d_l3nin: Good thing they didnt

Did I say that was fact? I said it's more likely. Reading comprehension is your friend. But unless you have evidence to the contrary, I see no reason why I shouldn't believe they went there to look for attention.

And your desperate attempt to discredit me as being an "anti-vaxxer" which I am not, just makes your post that much more laughable.

You lost this argument, now you're desperately trying to change the subject.

Okay just wanted to make clear that quote was just you spouting garbage fiction, as you usually do.

When you say something is likely you should still back it up, otherwise don't put that qualifier. I'm glad we can both agree you made it up and it has no basis in reality.

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