Unsurprised

[owlmoose]

Brief pandemic stuff behind the cut.

Indoor dining in SF is shutting back down because of a 250% jump in COVID cases.

It's so obvious that indoor dining is a huge transmission source, and yet everyone keeps trying to put it high on the list of businesses to re-open. I do not understand, at all.

Not that this affects my life. I haven't set foot inside a restaurant since the second week of March except to pick up takeout, and I've only even eaten outdoors a couple of times, never at a place with table service. Why this is the thing that everyone is pushing to get back -- as opposed to schools, other types of workplaces, gatherings with friends and family, all of which seem higher priority, all of which can be done masked -- is totally beyond me.

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[rionaleonhart]

I still can't believe the UK government literally paid people to start going back to restaurants and are now acting surprised that we're in a huge second wave. Who could have predicted that 'we'll pay half your restaurant bill in the middle of a pandemic' might have negative consequences?

[owlmoose]

Right?? When they could have used that money to, like, pay business owners to stay closed and keep paying their employees. Which frankly would have done everyone a lot more good.