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by John » Fri Oct 16, 2020 04:41 pm
It sounds like the laws are the same where you are. Here though, the mask laws are mandated county by county, rather than state wide, but I don't know of any counties that don't do the same. A few counties do carry it one step further, limiting occupancy to 25%, which is why I can't work in Kansas City Kansas or Warrensburg Missouri. I lost a lot of bookings in those 2 cities. In Sedalia, a handful of restaurants are wide open. Most are drive-through only. In McDonalds, you can go in to order but you can't stay to eat.
Nobody, but nobody, wears a mask in the biker bars, except the bartenders. Nobody even wore one going in and out, except the band because we had to. In the suburbs, a very few wore masks coming in, then wore them down around their necks for the rest of the night, if they kept them on at all. In one suburb they planned a "best mask" contest, but only 3 people wore masks so, that was a bust. I'm not a "touchy-feely" kind of guy but every night I play, I'm subjected to half a dozen hugs and countless handshakes, with people talking right up to my face to be heard over the noise. It's like, if I wanted to get sick, this is exactly how I'd do it!
I noticed the other day that going through a store with a mask on, I caught the strong smell of kettle corn, and if the complex molecule that makes the smell of kettle corn is getting through, the much smaller virus must look at the weave in a mask like a gnat looking at the open doors on a zeppelin hangar. I'm sure they cut down the number getting through, particularly if someone sneezes, but I don't think they're stopping anywhere near all of it. This is cold and flu season anyway and I'm sure everybody who gets a cold will think they've got it. John