Florida bar owner bans masks, will eject patrons who wear face coverings

Via The NY Post

The owner of a bar in Florida has outright banned any patrons from wearing masks or face coverings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he doesn’t “agree” with the idea.

Gary Kirby, the owner of Westside Sports Bar and Lounge in West Melbourne, told Fox News that he’s been getting death threats for prohibiting masks at his establishment but claimed that the people in his town have “for the most part been in 100% support” of his decision.

“I personally don’t agree with it. So that’s why I made the decision to… I don’t want them here,” added Kirby in a previous an interview with Fox 35 Orlando.

Kirby reportedly began banning patrons with masks as of Sept. 11, claiming that the CDC-recommended safety precaution is “hindering our lifestyle as we know it.” In a statement to Fox News, he added that he doesn’t agree with mask mandates because face coverings make it harder for his bartenders to identify if a patron has been overserved.

Kirby, however, claims he has another reason he’s wary of face coverings: He alleges that his bar was burglarized after hours on Aug. 9 by a man in a surgical mask. When asked whether he believed the suspect would have just shown his face prior to the pandemic, Kirby claimed that police told him that “criminals would be capitalizing on the mask mandate all over using it to their advantage to get away with crimes.”

He also admitted to Fox News that the police suspected the burglary was an “inside job.”

A spokesperson for the West Melbourne Police Department told Fox News on Friday morning that a police report was filed following the alleged burglary. Police also said that Kirby has been “uncooperative” with any attempts to investigate the burglary further and has refused to meet with detectives.

The bar’s new ban on masks has received mixed reviews on social media, with people as far away as Texas and California writing bad online reviews for the business, Kirby says. However, he told Fox News he also has “hundreds” of messages of support from fans on Facebook.

“I’m getting messages on my Facebook saying, ‘Hey, football, we’re coming there to watch the game,’” he told Fox 35.

But even with Kirby’s mask ban in place, customers won’t be able to walk into the bar without any type of screening at all. According to Kirby, a doorman greets guests out front and takes patrons’ temperatures before they can enter.

Once inside, any patron who dons a mask will be asked to remove it, WESH 2 reported. If they refuse to comply, they will be thrown out.

West Melbourne, which is located in Brevard County, does not mandate that businesses require patrons to wear masks before entering. Instead, county commissioners decided in July that businesses must clearly state their own mask policies — and whether they require them — at entrances.

“We simply encourage residents to follow CDC recommendations — which is to wear a mask. Period,” said Don Walker, the communications director for Brevard County, in a statement shared with Fox News. “There is no enforcement, etc., on mask wearing.”

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Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

Good for Gary Kirby. Fuck the mask mandate. Vote out any politician who makes its wearing compulsory by diktat.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I believe everyone should make up their own mind and think the bar owner is as wrong as Kroger & WalMart.
Live free and leave others to do the same thing.

SlickWilly
SlickWilly

Exactly its his business and if he doesn’t want mask wearers inside then he gets to make that call. Saying the bar owner is wrong just goes to show you are a collectivist/marxist/communist/whatever that believes that you or some supposedly higher power should tell people what to do. If people don’t like it don’t fucking go there. I for one have no desire to interact with the mouth breathing mask wearing crowd. It is nice these masked people have made it easy for me to immediately identify that knock knock…….. nobody is home.

Bobo the Hobo
Bobo the Hobo

I don’t see a problem here. Brevard county trusts their residents – good for them!

Iska Watan
Iska Watan

This bar owner is helping public health. The more people catch a mild or even symptom-free case of covid (99.8% of cases), the sooner we reach herd immunity (around the corner for Florida), the sooner things can get back to normal and the fewer people getting depressed and killing themselves.

Nig
Nig

Scumbag and Jeff Epstein buddy, Bill Gates already told you, things only get back to “normal” after everyone has been injected with his toxin, oops, I meant vaccine.

anthony aaron
anthony aaron

… with a tracking chip embedded.

22winmag - I was told about 2020 back in 1981
22winmag - I was told about 2020 back in 1981

Merrimack, NH

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Chemist46
Chemist46

I was trained as a chemist. A large part of my professional career was working in various parts of the filtration industry. I developed a line of mixed esters of cellulose membrane filters. Millipore type filters, that were used to sterilize flu vaccines for Merck Sharp and Dohme as well as other medical products companies. I developed respiratory protection products for Wilson Safety Products used in the mining industry. I worked for Baxter developing medical / IV filters. I have patents on three IV filters I invented. Baxter sold more than 5 million of one of those every year for most of a decade. I know a little bit about filters.
Surgical masks were not designed as filters and were not intended to be used as filters. Surgical masks were designed to be used by surgeons standing face down over an operating table holding a patient with an open wound. The surgeon wearing the mask would be able to talk to others in the room without discharging spittle droplets into the patient’s wound. Spittle droplets are large and can cause infection.
I witnessed a test of surgical masks. Small plaster particles were generated in a room. They were visible as a white dust in the air. A man was properly fitted with a surgical mask and spent a short time in the room. When he came out the mask was removed. A camera was focused on the man’s face. The entire area that had been covered by the mask was coated by the white dust. The camera showed that his nostrils and his mouth had been penetrated by the white dust. The dust particles were measured and found to be around 40 micrometers in diameter. The particles that penetrated the mask were the same diameter.
Covid-19 virus molecules are about 0.1 micrometers in diameter. That is 400 times smaller than the plaster particles that penetrated the mask.
Surgical masks will not prevent the wearer from inhaling or exhaling viruses or bacteria. They provide absolutely no protection for either the wearer or anyone nearby. They create a very dangerous false sense of security for everyone. They also force the wearer to rebreath carbon dioxide. Which will over time reduce the wearers blood oxygen level. That can become very dangerous especially for older people.
This farce is being promoted by sleazy politicians who believe that if they can convince people that they are protecting them or creating a safe environment for them by pushing this mask farce those people will re-elect them.
All politicians pushing this dangerous mask farce should be voted out of office as soon as possible.

Hans Fotzenlecker
Hans Fotzenlecker

The Sheriff in our county said he’s not enforcing any mask requirement because he has no legal authority to do so and he’s not going to put his deputies in a trick bag. That being said, almost every business now requires you to wear one when shopping. But, the small coffee shop we’ve been going to for years does not require masks. The owner has a sign on the door stating: This is a mask free environment, enter at your own risk. The place is always busy and absolutely no one wears a mask.

anthony aaron
anthony aaron

The photo of the dust/mask test has been around for a few weeks … just proves what an evil hoax has been perpetrated on We The People Of The United States (right up there with the ‘diversity is strength’ bullshit and the holoco$t bullshit, plus the lies about the assassination of JFK and the 9/11 event).

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

I hope he cleared this stunt with his liability insurance carrier.
He’s also inviting worker’s comp cases. Even though the standard in Florida’s occupational disease theory is clear & convincing evidence, it’s not out of the question. I predict this will end up costing him money before it’s over.

SeeBee
SeeBee

It’s a start but not far enough. Taking temperatures to enter is an intrusion on personal space and information and it is another bullshit control measure for the lemmings to follow.

glock 1911 M1A .308
glock 1911 M1A .308

Uhh…he probably needs another 12 years of government-mandated, group-think training. Surely he knows by now that thinking, much less acting outside the herd is strongly discouraged. Plus, he is missing out on a HUGE virtue signalling opportunity. Hopefully some Karen or other-such covid nazi will swoop in and shame him into compliance.

yahsure
yahsure

Free choice? what a concept.

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