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Comment by fouc | Hacker News Reader

No mask, no service.. surely businesses can refuse service out of safety concerns

My daughter works a minimum wage job. Her stories about her coworkers are appalling. For instance, a bunch of them went to a crowded rave after work one day and most of them got the virus, but they didn’t say anything and kept showing up for work until one of them became symptomatic and then it came out.

My point is, the minimum wage workers at many of these businesses could not care less whether you are following mask rules or not.

Many minimum-wage workers desperately need that income (maybe not middle-class teens working summer jobs) so it's unsurprising that they'll come to work sick.

It's not always that simple: French bus driver attacked over mask rules dies [https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/europe/france-philippe-mongui...]

I mean, murders also illegal. The legality of enforcing a mask order is easy, the process of actually enforcing that rule might not be.

Can confirm that every day in Seattle I am seeing customers not wearing masks and businesses serving them without issue even though they are not allowed to.

When you own a business, the customer is always right.

I’ve noticed that opinion always comes from people who don’t deal with customers directly.

I own a business, and while a customer might not be right, I always treat them like they are right. Thus, the saying.

So, you now cannot say "always" in that statement, because I deal with customers daily.

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