Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Western Massachusetts update

This is the top story in the Boston Globe today: "A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead."

Five years after Covid, a lesbian bar in Greenfield decided to make masking optional.  Here are some of the very measured and reasonable comments made by some patrons:
“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.

“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.
Fun times!

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