Am I the only person still eating outside?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because of COVID you mean? Yes, you're the only one still doing this. COVID is like the flu. Get vaxxed, you're still going to get it occasionally. It's here to stay. Live your life. The end.

This, I truly don't understand why people are still "afraid" of Covid? You're going to get it. And you're very likely going to be fine.

My father died from it last week. He was 80 but mostly healthy. He had all the shots. Covid started a downward spiral for him that ended with sepsis.

You realize 80 is a perfectly normal age to die right?

What a nasty response. What ever happened to I'm sorry for your loss. These past few years have had so many deaths, we have hardened as a society

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because of COVID you mean? Yes, you're the only one still doing this. COVID is like the flu. Get vaxxed, you're still going to get it occasionally. It's here to stay. Live your life. The end.

This, I truly don't understand why people are still "afraid" of Covid? You're going to get it. And you're very likely going to be fine.

My father died from it last week. He was 80 but mostly healthy. He had all the shots. Covid started a downward spiral for him that ended with sepsis.

I’m so sorry for your loss.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t eat inside for the great majority of the pandemic, but I have resumed after I got my bivalent booster. I love restaurants and had found go-to places with good patios but I appreciate having more options now. My best friend and her partner live in NYC and still only eat outdoors. I would love to go and visit this winter, and of course their presence is more important than the restaurant, but I’m kind of dreading accommodating this restriction if we go. Just to note, they are both early to mid 40s with no underlying health conditions, just anxiety. It would be different if they were immunocompromised.

[Anonymous]

It is weird seeing these threads when restaurants are bustling.

You're just as likely to get covid anywhere else as in a restaurant. Truth be told, you're much more likely to get it from close family and friends, not passing strangers at the supermarket.

[Anonymous]

Eating outside for fun and ambience? Or because youre scared of a virus that is pretty much an inevitability at this point and which is about as dangerous as the common cold?

I do like eating outside for the ambience, but that's the only reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is weird seeing these threads when restaurants are bustling.

You're just as likely to get covid anywhere else as in a restaurant. Truth be told, you're much more likely to get it from close family and friends, not passing strangers at the supermarket.

+1 I have been screaming this from the hilltops. Much more likely to get it at the house of someone you know and hang out with for hours than you are passing a person for 5 seconds in the frozen foods aisle. And yet people are convinced they’ll get it from strangers and that their cloth mask in the Giant is what’s keeping them safe.

[Anonymous]

I feel like dining outdoors during the winter is either a recipe for getting some other respiratory virus (staying out in the cold for a long time) or it is so insulated (in one of those wood sheds) that it is effectively indoors. No winning. I also get every vax and feel like that is really all I can do if I don't want to live as a shut-in. Given my health status, that level of isolation isn't worth it to me, so I dine indoors or out as needed.

I got COVID from a work conference and my kids got it from dining outdoors (I think, but there was no indoor dining.) I got RSV on a recent work trip, not sure what that was from. So no idea if my sample is meaningful but there you have it.

[Anonymous]

Yup!

[Anonymous]

Nope. I still mostly do take out. I’ve eaten in a couple of restaurants— when they were pretty empty and obviously ventilated, and servers were masked.

I will probably continue to be very careful by my standards until there is a better understanding of variables linked with getting long COVID.
FWIW, I’m in a higher risk demographic group, I interact with people at very high risk, and my “normal” — live in a high rise, use the Metro — already has unknown but significant risks re: exposures.

AFAIK, I haven’t yet had COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is weird seeing these threads when restaurants are bustling.

You're just as likely to get covid anywhere else as in a restaurant. Truth be told, you're much more likely to get it from close family and friends, not passing strangers at the supermarket.

That’s true. But at least I know that my close family and friends have not tested positive for COVID. And I see a difference between passing by someone at the store, and sitting near a group of people for an hour or two when all of us are unmasked. I’m happy to do takeout when it’s too cold to eat outside.

[Anonymous]

Definitely not the only one. We travel often, but never do anything indoors that we can't do with masks on. Eating outside in Boston now for 2.5 years.

Dining indoors is one of the most risky if not the most risky situations for covid and other airborne diseases. Not worth it when there are so many beautiful patios.

[Anonymous]

It's so strange to hear that in the US people are still masked up and afraid to even eat out.

Here in Europe it's back to business as usual, people eating out in large groups, kissing each other on the cheek, the usual joy and merriment.

I really havent even thought of Covid in several months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because of COVID you mean? Yes, you're the only one still doing this. COVID is like the flu. Get vaxxed, you're still going to get it occasionally. It's here to stay. Live your life. The end.

This, I truly don't understand why people are still "afraid" of Covid? You're going to get it. And you're very likely going to be fine.

My father died from it last week. He was 80 but mostly healthy. He had all the shots. Covid started a downward spiral for him that ended with sepsis.

You realize 80 is a perfectly normal age to die right?

What a nasty response. What ever happened to I'm sorry for your loss. These past few years have had so many deaths, we have hardened as a society

So very true. Or maybe the lack of empathy and care for others was always there, but now we see it everyday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because of COVID you mean? Yes, you're the only one still doing this. COVID is like the flu. Get vaxxed, you're still going to get it occasionally. It's here to stay. Live your life. The end.

This, I truly don't understand why people are still "afraid" of Covid? You're going to get it. And you're very likely going to be fine.

My father died from it last week. He was 80 but mostly healthy. He had all the shots. Covid started a downward spiral for him that ended with sepsis.

I'm sorry for the loss of your father.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because of COVID you mean? Yes, you're the only one still doing this. COVID is like the flu. Get vaxxed, you're still going to get it occasionally. It's here to stay. Live your life. The end.

This, I truly don't understand why people are still "afraid" of Covid? You're going to get it. And you're very likely going to be fine.

My father died from it last week. He was 80 but mostly healthy. He had all the shots. Covid started a downward spiral for him that ended with sepsis.

You realize 80 is a perfectly normal age to die right?

You're a monster.