Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:55
Subject: Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Yes, I will eat indoors.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:55
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
Easing restrictions has the effect of putting just enough evolutionary pressure on the virus that it accelerates its mutation rate, which statistically, at some point, will lead to the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants. The South African variant is already not has vulnerable to our vaccines as the others.
What we should be doing is going the other way: being MORE restrictive while getting everyone vaccinated, so as to avoid the virus becoming endemic and/or resistant to vaccines. Otherwise, the best-case scenario is that we'll need booster shots every year. The worst-case scenario is that a variant will emerge that is completely resistant to current vaccine technology and will set us back to square one, and millions more deaths.
As a molecular biologist, who has worked in virology, I understand this. It saddens me that most people don't. It further worries me that scientists working in public health are pressured to act on criteria other than health. Of course businesses and kids are suffering right now. But this suffering is nothing compared to what we might suffer if a truly resistant variant emerges. So there's a calculation of risk here that divides the experts, mostly because a pandemic of this scale has never happened in modern, high-tech times (we didn't have all this vaccine technology at our disposal for the 1918 flu pandemic) and we don't know how much risk to apply to any one direction.
So... no, I will not be dining out until I am fully immunized.
I wish you could post this on every thread. Exactly.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:53
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
We haven't eaten inside or outside a restaurant since last spring. Its been a year now. I don't plan on eating at a restaurant for a long time given COVID. Carryout only.
My last long drive through some areas where I don't frequent was quite disturbing. TONS OF RESTAURANTS CLOSED.
Therefore I wonder if there will be any left once this is done and over. Carry out at this time is an option but one would wonder
if it will continue as most restaurants can not survive on carryout.
I walked through Bethesda at the weekend and was shocked by the number of restaurants that have closed and won’t reopen.
Really? Which ones? I haven't noticed that many. The Jaleo closed before pandemic, and because they are re-orienting the nature of the restaurant. But I haven't seen that many others.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:52
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
Easing restrictions has the effect of putting just enough evolutionary pressure on the virus that it accelerates its mutation rate, which statistically, at some point, will lead to the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants. The South African variant is already not has vulnerable to our vaccines as the others.
What we should be doing is going the other way: being MORE restrictive while getting everyone vaccinated, so as to avoid the virus becoming endemic and/or resistant to vaccines. Otherwise, the best-case scenario is that we'll need booster shots every year. The worst-case scenario is that a variant will emerge that is completely resistant to current vaccine technology and will set us back to square one, and millions more deaths.
As a molecular biologist, who has worked in virology, I understand this. It saddens me that most people don't. It further worries me that scientists working in public health are pressured to act on criteria other than health. Of course businesses and kids are suffering right now. But this suffering is nothing compared to what we might suffer if a truly resistant variant emerges. So there's a calculation of risk here that divides the experts, mostly because a pandemic of this scale has never happened in modern, high-tech times (we didn't have all this vaccine technology at our disposal for the 1918 flu pandemic) and we don't know how much risk to apply to any one direction.
So... no, I will not be dining out until I am fully immunized.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:52
Subject: Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
We won't eat indoors. We've been ordering in MORE than we ever ate out, I think -- about once a week. And I've been tipping 20% on the takeout.
We did do some outside dining when the weather was nicer, and will probably do that again, although I thought some of the places had tables that were too close for comfort. I like the concept of letting them spread out into parking lots, streets, etc.
It's a little frustrating because I fee like 90% of our take=out orders have had a problem -- missing food, stuff that was awfully overcooked, etc. I keep trying different places and switching up the orders to find things that will work.
I feel like this is a bit like hotels .... they can be open, but if people aren't comfortable going there, it's not really going to help the business owners much.
We did do some outside dining when the weather was nicer, and will probably do that again, although I thought some of the places had tables that were too close for comfort. I like the concept of letting them spread out into parking lots, streets, etc.
It's a little frustrating because I fee like 90% of our take=out orders have had a problem -- missing food, stuff that was awfully overcooked, etc. I keep trying different places and switching up the orders to find things that will work.
I feel like this is a bit like hotels .... they can be open, but if people aren't comfortable going there, it's not really going to help the business owners much.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:48
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
We haven't eaten inside or outside a restaurant since last spring. Its been a year now. I don't plan on eating at a restaurant for a long time given COVID. Carryout only.
My last long drive through some areas where I don't frequent was quite disturbing. TONS OF RESTAURANTS CLOSED.
Therefore I wonder if there will be any left once this is done and over. Carry out at this time is an option but one would wonder
if it will continue as most restaurants can not survive on carryout.
I walked through Bethesda at the weekend and was shocked by the number of restaurants that have closed and won’t reopen.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:47
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
Pre COVID we ate out at least once a week. We did eat indoors a few times over summer, and outside a load when it was warmer. Right now we would not eat indoors.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:45
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
We haven't eaten inside or outside a restaurant since last spring. Its been a year now. I don't plan on eating at a restaurant for a long time given COVID. Carryout only.
My last long drive through some areas where I don't frequent was quite disturbing. TONS OF RESTAURANTS CLOSED.
Therefore I wonder if there will be any left once this is done and over. Carry out at this time is an option but one would wonder
if it will continue as most restaurants can not survive on carryout.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:43
Subject: Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:
With the new more transmissible variants, this is a HUGE mistake.
One would assume.
However the question stands, what about VA who never closed, who had their UK cases going back few weeks etc.?
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:43
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
We haven't eaten inside or outside a restaurant since last spring. Its been a year now. I don't plan on eating at a restaurant for a long time given COVID. Carryout only.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:42
Subject: Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Anonymous wrote:Elrich must be getting closer to announcing his run for governor.
+1, we go from initially very careful to caving in. Money is more important than health.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:42
Subject: Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
With the new more transmissible variants, this is a HUGE mistake.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:41
Subject: Re:Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
If you live in MOCO do you plan to resume if you dinned before, do you plan to stay away or do you plan to modify?
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:41
Subject: Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Elrich must be getting closer to announcing his run for governor.
Anonymous
02/09/2021 13:24
Subject: Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County 2/14. At 25% and 90 minute limit per dinner.
Indoor dining will resume in Montgomery County starting Valentine's Day
Restrictions include capping indoor dining at 25% capacity, not serving alcohol after 10 p.m., and imposing a 90-minute time limit for diners.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/indoor-dining-ban-lifted-montgomery-county-25-percent-capacity/65-0e6b994e-f568-4dad-9271-e294592f6c2e
For those of you who live in NOVA and did not ban dinning lately since MOCO did it some mid Dec., how did it impacted your numbers? Did it get worse?
Restrictions include capping indoor dining at 25% capacity, not serving alcohol after 10 p.m., and imposing a 90-minute time limit for diners.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/indoor-dining-ban-lifted-montgomery-county-25-percent-capacity/65-0e6b994e-f568-4dad-9271-e294592f6c2e
For those of you who live in NOVA and did not ban dinning lately since MOCO did it some mid Dec., how did it impacted your numbers? Did it get worse?