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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.

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

Yeah, the focus on people "comfort levels" and "feelings" is just so misguided.  Your feelings have nothing to do with whether or not your actions contribute to the spread of COVID.  Indoor dining has been identified as one of the biggest sources of spread, which is not surprising, given that it involves people indoors for an hour or so without masks.  You can feel totally comfortable, and still get sick or spread COVID to others.

But there are SO many people that think it's just about personal feelings.  It's why states need to close stuff down -- a lot of people think "if it's open, it must be safe," and that's not really how a lot of these decisions are being made.  And I guess I wouldn't care if it was just the people taking the biggest risks who were getting sick and dying, but that's also not how it works.  They spread it to others who might be taking objectively fewer risks, or who must take risks as part of their job (the servers in these restaurants, for example), but who cannot totally isolate (because it's impossible for many people to totally isolate).  [/quote]

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