In-N-Out Burger Is Banning Employees from Wearing Masks So Customers Can 'See Our Associates' Smiles

[stewie_e]

In-N-Out Burger is prohibiting employees in five U.S. states from wearing masks unless they receive a medical note from a doctor. https://t.co/HL47hDTZdW
- NBC News (@NBCNews) July 18, 2023
In-N-Out Burger is apparently banning employees from wearing masks while working

Comments

[analievelyn]

Ifeel so bad for their employees.
I bet they had this ready for the end of federal recognition for the pandemic to pull this shit.

It's been really nice recently connecting with more ppl who are still masking and invested in preventing the spread of covid.

If you still mask, do ppl around you give you shit about it?

[mhfromnh]

I was masking up until a few months ago. I was the only one at my Ulta who did.

they haven't been reporting about transmission in ages and it's just so weird. surely it's still happening, but we don't know the numbers anymore.

[analievelyn]

Ppl are still doing some tracking.

Im a fan of the people's cdc and the work their volunteers do.

https://instagram.com/peoplescdc?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[justabwaybaby]

My state's hospital association still updates hospitalizations daily. There's 95 people hospitalized in the state that have tested positive for covid. Don't know if they're testing everyone, though. But it's pretty low for the state.

[sirlolsworthy]

wastewater tracking is one metric they can't hide and it's on a big uptick atm

[bloopbloop01]

They can track covid presence in waste water??

[sirlolsworthy]

yep! it's what we (used to) do to find potential hotspots in Australia. You shed viral fragments in your poop. Unless governments ban testing wastewater - which i honestly would not put it past them - it's how we'll know where cases are rising despite the best globally coordinated efforts to minimise the fact that covid is NOT over. You would think that businesses would realise what a short term own goal solution it is to basically force everyone to keep getting sick until they're too disabled to work anymore but capitalism is a cancer determined on killing its host

[bloopbloop01]

Fuuuuuuuck. Yep you are right about capitalism 🙃🙃🙃

[sirlolsworthy]

I always was, it just took the rest of the world a little while to catch up to baby socialist me. My dad's favourite historical event was the French Revolution so I'd get big talks from him about it all back in the 80s

[pepsi_twist9]

We had a memo sent out that explicitly stated if you don't think you need to be hospitalized it's not an excuse to not be in the office in a brief about why they're reducing working home days. Then a week later we got a bulletin with government regulation about how if you're sick don't come in and affect coworkers. The higherups think they run a slave ship

[sirlolsworthy]

what's absolutely insane to me about that is, before covid, if you were actually sick it was generally regarded as the normal thing to do is stay home. Now fucking sick days have been politicised because we cannot, under any circumstances, have covid be seen as any kind of threat because "it's over". Less consideration for that than the fucking common cold!!

[pepsi_twist9]

I told my manager it was ridiculous. If you have pink eye or bronchitis, don't come in? I don't want the chicken pox just because it probably wouldn't kill me

[sirlolsworthy]

it's actually much more dangerous to get your first chicken pox infection as an adult so get vaxxed for that bad boy!

[dbwayfarer]

there's like some specific dude here in central ohio who they know has some mutated variant and has been infected for AGES, and they've been able to track his work commute just based off wastewater patterns. iirc he has a habitual path from columbus to washington courthouse. dunno if they've found him yet, but here's an article about the mysterious covid mutant from a few months ago.

i live in columbus so added incentive to mask tbh. you never know if the mutant covid poop guy could be next to you...

[umilicious]

A major problem with transmission reporting is that people aren’t testing as much as before, and many folks stopped consistently self-reporting after last spring/summer (which is when US states stopped enforcing mask mandates). It also didn’t help when the federal gov’t ended the emergency declaration and insurance companies were no longer required to provide testing kits at no cost to the consumer. I just assume that it’s worse than what’s reported because the data’s going to be flawed no matter what.

[thereinventions]

It's definitely still happening. One of my coworkers caught it this week.

And I saw Gloria Kellet finally caught after three years.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu2d2vky9Co/?igshid=MmU2YjMzNjRlOQ==