It's time for DC to shut down indoor dining again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bars and churches should be closed. I'd like to see indoor dining closed but 25% capacity is a step in the right direction. My kids and many others have been home for 8 full months with no end in sight. People do not need to be at bars more than kids need to be in elementary school. Church can take place remotely. People can eat outdoors or pick up food from restaurants. We should be using our rainy day fund for economic relief and get priorities straight.

Your poor children...

Sucks to be you.

We will be alive. (DP) Sucks to be in the grave.

That so many people actually think this is a 50/50 choice between life or death is so, so sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:14th Street was MOBBED this weekend with the nice weather and Biden victory celebrations. We drove as part of the victory parade and I hadn’t been to 14th Street in 6 months (we live in Glover Park). Every restaurant/bar was bursting at 2pm, it felt like pre-pandemic says.

I don't understand why the restaurants are so crowded. I thought there was a capacity limit. 14th Street is HORRIBLE!!! I'm sad to see so many restaurants that had to close and for the workers to lose jobs, but something HAS to be done to contain this. I have been trying to support the restaurants by eating carry out, or if I do sit inside, to only go places that are truly trying to social distance. I do my best to give the servers a much larger tip than normal, and I often order/eat more food than normal. But they should not be allowed to be jammed packed (Barcelona, Le Diplomat and that entire little area).

[Anonymous]

I was shocked to see how jammed parks and restaurant were over Biden weekend. Maskless patrons elbow to elbow, obviously unrelated

[Anonymous]

Study of Connecticut cases finds that restaurants are the top spreaders in the recent uptick there, with nearly all cases among workers:

https://abc7ny.com/covid-alert-ct-connecticut-app-ned-lamont-red-status/7919132/

Bowser and Nesbitt have never been honest about what contact tracing has found here (they don't even ask if you ate indoor or outdoors at a restaurant), because Bowser has been wholly bought and paid for by the restaurant industry.

It's also interesting to note that the Connecticut study found that at-home gatherings -- which Bowser and Nesbitt incessantly push as the cause of DC's outbreak -- ranked third behind restaurants and workspaces.

Also, this:

"At the bottom of the list was childcare, which was one of the least places the virus was transmitted."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

Link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

Link?

There is no link. PP was either making this up or using very outdated data. Bowser and Nesbitt have been consistently ducking questions about what DC's contact tracing has found when it comes to indoor dining. It's shameful.

https://twitter.com/LauraHayesDC/status/1326870743217561602

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has some of the most stringent COVID policies in the country and has done very little to support businesses hurt by this. Keep restaurant and stores open unless you're going to compensate them for loss of revenue. A vaccine is almost here.

I am very careful in my personal life but I agree with this. At some point, people are going to hurt more from poverty than they will from Covid. I don't plan on going to inside restaurants this winter but if others want to go, let them.

This is so backwards. We should compensate workers and and small businesses AND shut down indoor dining. It will be much, much cheaper in the long run. The idea that we have to keep the businesses open for economic reasons will seem extremely stupid when the result is the virus getting out of control and killing a bunch of people this winter. And you understand that the people working in indoor dining will be among those who die, right?

If we just paid people up front, but closed this risky activity, we are more likely to make it to the other side with less death AND less economic loss.

We can’t do this because only the federal govt can spend like this, and Republicans blocked this kind of spending because they want cities to suffer. Jared Kushner said this explicitly. And McConnell got close.

[Anonymous]

Bowser needs to say: "We are shutting down indoor dining, gyms and churches effective immediately. The day a sizable portion of schoolkids return to their buildings, these places will be allowed to reopen in a safe manner." Then maybe people would think she's actually prioritizing kids instead of millennial dipshits who don't know how to work a stove or fail to realize they can drink just as much at home.

[Anonymous]

Individuals that attend an indoor gym need to have their heads examined.

[Anonymous]

Who would want to dine indoors? I am OK with well spaced outdoor seating, as well as the city helping restaurants pay to winterize those soaces ( i believe they have a program for that).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bars and churches should be closed. I'd like to see indoor dining closed but 25% capacity is a step in the right direction. My kids and many others have been home for 8 full months with no end in sight. People do not need to be at bars more than kids need to be in elementary school. Church can take place remotely. People can eat outdoors or pick up food from restaurants. We should be using our rainy day fund for economic relief and get priorities straight.

Your poor children...

Sucks to be you.

Live free or die? US is full of idiots.

[Anonymous]

It would help if DC didn’t have all these people from other states coming in and not following common sense Covid protocol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

Link?

There is no link. PP was either making this up or using very outdated data. Bowser and Nesbitt have been consistently ducking questions about what DC's contact tracing has found when it comes to indoor dining. It's shameful.

https://twitter.com/LauraHayesDC/status/1326870743217561602

NP. This isn’t made up. It was an October press conference. Here’s a reference to it.
https://www.hillrag.com/2020/10/14/bowser-talks-health-insurance-contact-tracing/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to DC’s contact tracing data, only 20% of people said they’d been to a restaurant in the previous two weeks. 25% said they’d been to a social gathering. Who knows if these people overlap though...

Link?

There is no link. PP was either making this up or using very outdated data. Bowser and Nesbitt have been consistently ducking questions about what DC's contact tracing has found when it comes to indoor dining. It's shameful.

https://twitter.com/LauraHayesDC/status/1326870743217561602

NP. This isn’t made up. It was an October press conference. Here’s a reference to it.
https://www.hillrag.com/2020/10/14/bowser-talks-health-insurance-contact-tracing/

There's a chasm of difference between October and November, now that it's colder and cases have exponentially increased. Information from October is no longer relevant.

[Anonymous]

Latest data from DC Health says 26 percent of positive cases reported dining at a restaurant, which now is about the same percentage as those who reported going to a "social event." But because DC contact tracing doesn't ask if they ate indoors or outdoors, this information is shamefully incomplete.

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/502461/d-c-doesnt-ask-about-indoor-dining-in-contact-tracing-calls/