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As virus cases drop, governors may gamble on bars. Again. - Black News Channel

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A guy walks into a bar, which still isn't allowed in Texas. But Jeff Brightwell owns this bar. Two months into an indefinite shutdown, he's just checking on the place — the tables six feet apart, the 'Covid 19 House Rules' sign instructing drinkers not to mingle. All the safeguards that didn't keep the doors open because Dot's Hop House & Cocktail Courtyard is a bar under Texas law. And bars, in a pandemic? 'Really not good,' Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's infectious disease expert, told Congress in June. But […]

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