Couple With Immunocompromised Infant Say Texas Restaurant Wouldn’t Allow Them To Wear Masks
A Texas couple wanted to visit a local restaurant while they had a few hours to spare. Once they were sitting down for about an hour and a half eating with their friends the couple was told they had to leave because they chose to wear their masks.
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Natalie Wester and her husband, Jose Lopez, have an immunocompromised four-month-old son, and attempts to not go out to much with Covid-19 still affecting the world.
“If you’ve ever been new parents, having those couple of hours out like once or twice a month is so important for your mental health,” Wester shared.
The husband and wife are fully vaccinated, but when they want to step out they always wear a mask to prevent harming their son Austin, who has cystic fibrosis, Wester expressed in a Facebook post.
“Cystic fibrosis is a very life-threatening genetic disorder, and if my son were to contract COVID he would need to be hospitalized,” she shared.
Wester stated, when they first walked into the restaurant one of the workers requested for them to take their masks off but she thought it was for her to just check their ID’s. So once they sat down and joined their friends they put the masks back on.
“About half an hour passes and our waitress comes, sits down next to me, and says, ‘Our manager sent me over because I’m nicer than he is. And yes, this is political.’ She then told me that masks are not allowed in their building, and they can make the rules because they are private business. She said that the mask ‘doesn’t work, is like using a chain-link fence to keep out mosquitoes, and doesn’t give people enough oxygen,’ ” Wester wrote in her Facebook post.