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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure what the purpose of opening them is -- do people really feel comfortable to sit inside and eat with masks off?  I'm happy getting takeout.
I do wish more restaurants would repurpose their wait staff to do delivery.  I hate grub hub and ubereats, and would order about 5x as often if I didn't have to get dressed to go pick it up.  [/quote]
We were in Snowshoe this weekend for skiing. My friends and I were able to sit at a bar, order a burger and have drinks. It was pretty awesome.

So, yeah, there are plenty of people who are comfortable eating inside with masks off. Get out of your bubble. [/quote]

My kid's doing Zoom school in our living room and shouting across the yard at her grandparents, and you're flying to Snowshoe to eat hamburgers with friends indoors in bars apres-ski. [/quote]

NP - I am living my life to the best of my ability while still obeying health orders.  People have different comfort levels with risk and that is OK.  During COVID, we bought a house in a state that is more relaxed than MD, and have traveled there for weeks on end.  Eating indoors throughout the pandemic, but wearing masks in grocery and retail stores, etc.  All has been fine.[/quote]

I know a multi-generational family that was comfortable traveling to a resort over Christmas, in a state that encouraged tourism travel. The generations stayed separately and wore masks. The result was: everyone in the family tested positive afterwards - grandchildren, children, and grandparents. One of the children (late 30s or early 40s) got very sick and almost had to go to the hospital, their spouse missed work for several weeks because of the positive test plus caregiving for the very sick spouse and the grandchildren, and one of the grandparents died.

It's all fine, until it's not.[/quote]

I know a large extended family that was comfortable staying at home, getting take out, both parents worked at home (one is a scientist,) in the state of Maryland, the county of Montgomery, where pretty much most things are shut down.  The result was in: a close family member came over for the take out one night and within a week everyone in the extended family who btw had also followed all the rules tested positive for COVID. No one knows who patient zero was.

One is now in the hospital in the ICU and one will likely end up there shortly.

You're right. It's all fine until its not.  We need to shut down take out too.  It encourages people to eat together in their homes which causes COVID.

Please mind the sarcasm.

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