Inslee will require Washington businesses to turn away customers without coronavirus facial covering

[brooklynite]

Source: Seattle Times

OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee Thursday announced a range of new emergency actions to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, including new restrictions for bars and a two-week pause on any county advancing to a broader phase in the governor’s four-part reopening plan.

Thursday’s announcement comes as confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been rising in Washington and around the nation.

The new restrictions will still allow bars to start back up in the third phase of the reopening plan, but they won’t be allowed to have bar seating. Customers will still be able to sit down at tables in those establishments.

Inslee announced that next week he will put in place a statewide order barring businesses from serving customers who don’t wear facial coverings to minimize spread of the virus.

Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-will-require-businesses-to-turn-away-customers-who-enter-without-coronavirus-facial-coverings/

[denem]

1. Close the damn bars!

[regnaD kciN]

2. Which is fine, but...

...as he said at the press conference, anyone with a medical condition that precludes them from wearing a mask merely has to inform the store owner that, without specifying the condition. So it's safe to assume that all these FREEEEEDUMB!!!-loving types will continue to go maskless, and tell people "I have a medical condition (wink, wink)" and get to proceed as usual.

Also, while I'm glad that the governor is observing high rates of mask usage in public in places like Yakima and Benton Counties, I can tell him that, here in the Seattle exurbs, I see maybe 10% of people wearing masks while out. At most.