Hell Is Being A Restaurant Server Right Now

This is the kind of B.S. that American food service workers are dealing with in COVID-19 hot spots.

Abel Jaimes works at a Tex-Mex restaurant in Fredericksburg, Texas, a state that’s experiencing a plateau in vaccination rates and a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases as the delta variant becomes prominent. For most of the coronavirus pandemic, both he and the restaurant’s clientele were masked, per the restaurant’s policy.