Idiots of the Week; Bar Owner and People who Refuse to Wear Masks in a Pandemic

Idiot of the Week 

There's only 2 things that will save lives during a highly contagious pandemic like the one we are  experiencing: 
1) Science of Medicine 2) intelligence. This week's "Idiot of the Week" focuses on someone and all similar people who don't believe in #1 and don't possess any of #2.
   I'm tired of seeing posts from IDIOTS who say "it's a free country, we don't need a mask." Well, stupid, it's a free country that's be ravaged by a highly contagious disease that has killed over 100,000 people. A mask not only protects YOU but countless others including elderly and people with pre-existing conditions from getting it through anyone you come in contact with.
  This week's idiot, a bar owner in Texas,  refuses to serve people who wear a protective mask during a Pandemic because, well, he's a staunch supporter of the Idiot in Chief, who refuses to wear a mask and who has told his supporters that "Mask wearing is something Democrats do." (He made it political, I didn't).   If that's the case, sure, let all Republicans not wear masks, contract the virus and perhaps meet their maker. That would be Karma for stupidity.
Now, on to today's idiot:

Texas Bar Bans Customers From Wearing Masks During Coronavirus Pandemic

YAHOO NEWS, May 29, 2020 
Mask-wearing customers have been banned from entering a bar in Texas amid the coronavirus pandemic, local news outlets reported this week.

A sign posted outside the Liberty Tree Tavern in Elgin, 25 miles east of Austin, reads:

Due to our concern for our customers, if they FEEL (not think), that they need to wear a mask, they should stay home until they FEEL that it’s safe to be in public without one. Sorry, No Mask Allowed.

Kevin Smith, the bar’s co-owner, said the anti-mask rule was “a pushback against the wannabe snitch patrols and the contact tracers they’re gonna hire.”

“This is still rural Texas,” Smith told NBC affiliate KXAN in an interview that aired Tuesday.

One local resident described the ban as “a risk” and “foolish.”

Countered another: “I’m a stage 4 cancer survivor. I’ve been through a lot worse.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people wear cloth face coverings “in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.”

Smith said the bar was adhering to Texas social distancing guidelines, like limiting capacity to 25% and making customers maintain a distance of six feet.

Elgin, with a population of 10,000, had 52 confirmed coronavirus cases.

Most of the city lies in Bastrop County, where there have been around 190 cases and two deaths. Statewide, the virus has sickened more than 57,000 people and killed 1,562.

The nationwide death toll from the pandemic topped 100,000 on Thursday. The U.S. has had more than 1.7 million confirmed cases, the most in the world.

The issue of wearing masks has become increasingly politicized in recent weeks, although a HuffPost/YouGov poll suggests most people do not have a problem with it.