I feel the need to share with the anons what happened to me the other night.
I live in Georgia, in a small city, with a sizable local population of liberals, including a liberal mayor who mandated masking indoors a few weeks ago (to which Kemp has not responded like he did last year, when he struck down local mask mandates that were more strict than the state's policy).
Anyways, I've been playing and performing music in bands and solo here for about 8 years, and I was asked by my friend to play my first show post-mandated-live-music-ban, so of course I was excited. The show was at a very small bar with a stage in a separate room, and I'd been going there for many years, and even am good friends with one of the owners. But since Covid began, they had gone full-libtard, unfortunately, and it was a shame to watch.
Anyways, I showed up and sound checked. The bartender even told me I sounded really good after my soundcheck. I was feeling good. I left my instrument plugged in on the stage, since I was going to play first, and I left to meet up with friends who were going to see my show. The bar I met my friends at, just a few blocks away, wasn't even requiring masks inside, and nobody there was wearing one.
Upon returning to the venue, shortly before my set was going to start, I see Spouseanon talking to the bartender/doorman (who was a new employee and I'd never seen him before). It turns out Spouseanon was getting turned away for not having a "vax card" to present to the bartender… for a tiny, underground, $5 show… Apparently they had just enacted this "new policy" and nobody had told me about it. My friends who wanted to see my set were also unvaxxed, as am I.
I told the bartender I am also not vaxxed, and if that meant I shouldn't play. He essentially said yes, that I should leave, so I immediately got my gear and instrument and left the bar, 15 minutes before I was supposed to start.
I'll probably never step foot in there again. I was so shocked and mortified that it had happened to me, in a town and state where no laws or ordinances are requiring anyone to do those things. That bar took it upon themselves to enact the medical segregation policy.
Any other musicians or sound engineers dealing with this same thing?