New study shows that everything about restaurants during COVID is awful, but...

[rcjordan]

...especially the customers

https://boingboing.net/2020/12/10/new-study-shows-that-everything-about-restaurants-during-covid-is-awful-but-especially-the-customers.html

[ergophobe]

I couldn't even go into the doctor's office with my six-month old yesterday because of assholes like these, yet you can still go out with 10 f###ing people to a restaurant.

American priorities in a nutshell. Meanwhile, closer to home...

"My customers don't want me to shut down, and I'm not going to," said Robbie Nelson, 68, owner of the Airport Inn Bar and Grill, which was packed Wednesday with few people donning facial protection.

Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at UCSF, said the state's approach is overly broad. "In rural areas, what are you supposed to do if you've invested in outdoor dining for your restaurant and you don't find the rules credible?" Gandhi said. "It's not (just) about civil liberties anymore," she added. "It's about poverty and the privilege that's involved in the phrase 'stay at home.' How can I stay at home if my day-to-day putting food on the table depends on my being at work?"

At the Ace hardware store in Mariposa, owner Troy Foster says he's been one of the "lone" businessmen in town toeing the state's safety line... The lifelong Republican, who voted for President Trump last month, said unhappy patrons threatened to take their shopping list to the community's other hardware store. That didn't stop Foster — he banned nearly two dozen residents from his shop for repeatedly refusing to put on a mask.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Backlash-to-Newsom-s-lockdown-order-grows-15789905.php#photo-20366537