In response to the posters who brag about how they go to the Arnold Palmer restaurant (and other restaurants where the servers are maskless) and refuse to wear masks themselves:
While masks provide the wearer some degree of protection (depending on the type of mask), their main function is to minimize the chance that the wearer infects others. Thus, when you go to the Arnold Palmer restaurant, you are running a significant risk of getting infected from a maskless waiter, who circulates through the restaurant, coming in close contact with hundreds of people a day. You say that is your own business, and a lot of people would agree with you. They might even feel that, if you contract COVID-19 by foolishly patronizing such a restaurant, you got the comeuppance that you deserve.
However, when you go to Arnold Palmer's without a mask, don't you care about the servers and fellow patrons that YOU may be infecting and the other people that they may be reinfecting-- some of whom may well die as a result of your don't-give-a-damn -about-other-people attitude?
Have you ever heard of civic responsibility or just plain human decency?
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