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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC Opened restaurants last Friday, which believe was the first time DC is moving out of step with Moco.  Virginia restaurants have been open.  PP said that PG is opening.  If someone wants to dine, there are many options for Moco residents now which defeats some of the purpose in Moco but definitely puts the small business owners in Moco at more of a disadvantage than the rest of the DMV.   We know too many restaurants that have closed or won't make it much longer.   Carry out margins are horrible.  Gov't funds are near meaningless.  [/quote]

Totally correct PP. I am happy to be going out to a DC restaurant week this week and support my local restaurants.  T

There is no winning this discussion. People continuously scream that 25% indoor dining will cause cases to soar. There is no real data to prove this because tracing has been sporadic and inconsistent throughout all states and modeling has been used and not actual data.  I am not for full service openings and all for masks even while seated at the table not eating.

"Data from New York’s contact tracing efforts could be an indication of what’s happening in Pennsylvania, because the demographics of the two states are similar. In New York, restaurants and bars were linked to 1.43% of 46,000 COVID cases from September through November, the governor’s office announced recently.

About 74% of those cases were linked to household and social gatherings, with 0.06% traced to gyms."

https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-restaurants-covid-indoor-dining-muschick-20201218-o62l57i4sbhrdasbqnl3aioxuy-story.html

So in my opinion, considering that 74% of COVID cases are linked to household and social gatherings, as supported by the Thanksgiving and Christmas surge, maybe it's the people who stay at home all the time with "family and friends" are the real problem.[/quote]

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