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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[lassarina]

^ this. Food service is a huge huge huge part of the economy, and restaurants doing delivery-only make an incredibly tiny portion of sales (and, because of the way food service works, waitstaff are the cheapest people to have because of tipped wage, so they don't save very much money on payroll dumping the front-of-house staff.)