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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shut down businesses that are not compliant with restrictions. I work part time at a restaurant and have friends in the industry. we do not know about any outbreaks due to restaurants. granted the restaurant I am.at is larger with high ceilings so it is easy to space people compared to a hole-in-the-wall. but until cases are directly tied to restaurants, then dont mess with people's livelihood. there are restaurants doing what they can to keep everyone safe. they should not be penalized.[/quote]

You don't understand. It's the same reason private schools have very few cases and therefore, according to some, should stay open. Viral spread is driven by ASYMPTOMATIC people. Or people with such mild symptoms that they're not going to test. Or they may test, but it comes back as false negative (30% false negatives!).  So your restaurant may never have a positive case of Covid you know of, yet have contributed significantly to the spread of Covid-19 in our community and led, down the chain of transmission, to multiple hospitalizations, burdening our healthcare system, and deaths.

Indoor dining should never have opened in the first place. It's a place where people, not from the same household, take off their masks and open their mouths in a shared space. That's just a no-no because of viral droplets and viral particle aerosolization. Same for cafeterias in schools or workplaces. Dentists have the same issue (each patient opens their mouth in a shared space with the patient before and after), but obviously you can't very well deny emergency dental services to the population, so they need to stay open (but don't get non-emergency stuff done right now).

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