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There are specific rules in WA regarding restaurants. We ate outside for lunch on Sunday. We masked up until we reached our table. Waiter was masked. Distancing was practiced, but not always perfectly. I took a small bottle if hand sanitizer in with me, which I used twice while there. I trust they washed and sanitized the tables before our arrival, as this seems standard now.
Menu was shortened, and was printed on paper to be disposed of after our meal.
I trust the staff at this restaurant to be conscientious. If I don’t trust a place, I don’t visit.
But we do not eat out more than once a week, if that, and we might do takeout once as well, or not. We have also reduced trips to the grocer.
We have to live our lives as best we can.
Hand sanitiser and wearing masks before you get to the table is pretty pointless, if you are going to be eating for an hour without the mask and sharing germs with every other diner in the place, and yes it does spread over six feet. So social distancing is not going to save you either.
Hand sanitiser and wearing masks before you get to the table is pretty pointless, if you are going to be eating for an hour without the mask and sharing germs with every other diner in the place, and yes it does spread over six feet. So social distancing is not going to save you either.
I think hand sanitizer is mostly theater, but the sign at the door requested we use it.
We ate outside by the river. There was plenty of fresh air, and no people for a mile or two on one side of us.
It was probably as safe a place as there is around here.
But you take a risk going to the grocery store, you know? I mask up when I go there, and wear disposable gloves. We have to go on living our lives. We don't leave the house much in general.
The message on FB from our local health department specified that our increased rate of infection is caused by people not maintaining distancing when they attend social events. I assume they arrived at that conclusion because they have done contact tracing on those who have tested positive. Our infection rate is up. It is concerning. It might be that we need to keep to home even more than we are.
There are still people who don't wear a mask, or wear it improperly, as a sort of rebellion against authority, I suppose.
I think hand sanitizer is mostly theater, but the sign at the door requested we use it.
We ate outside by the river. There was plenty of fresh air, and no people for a mile or two on one side of us.
It was probably as safe a place as there is around here.
But you take a risk going to the grocery store, you know? I mask up when I go there, and wear disposable gloves. We have to go on living our lives. We don't leave the house much in general.
The message on FB from our local health department specified that our increased rate of infection is caused by people not maintaining distancing when they attend social events. I assume they arrived at that conclusion because they have done contact tracing on those who have tested positive. Our infection rate is up. It is concerning. It might be that we need to keep to home even more than we are.
There are still people who don't wear a mask, or wear it improperly, as a sort of rebellion against authority, I suppose.
No, I'm taking very little risk going to the grocery store. I have good masks and I wear them properly. On the other hand dining around strangers, while not wearing a mask is just crazy. Doing that regularly and it is just a matter of time before you will be infected.
I am happy, just spending the money, for food at home. Having shrimp, and a nice bottle of wine. I do feel bad for the restaurents though, but not enough too go out, and be un comfortable.
Hand sanitiser and wearing masks before you get to the table is pretty pointless, if you are going to be eating for an hour without the mask and sharing germs with every other diner in the place, and yes it does spread over six feet. So social distancing is not going to save you either.
What you say is true, so the best advise and there really isn't anything else to say is: simply if you are uncomfortable with socializing and or eating out don't. If you feel the need to be with others and you want to enjoy a drink or a dinner out; go ahead. You aren't really hurting anyone else..
No, I'm taking very little risk going to the grocery store. I have good masks and I wear them properly. On the other hand dining around strangers, while not wearing a mask is just crazy. Doing that regularly and it is just a matter of time before you will be infected.
You say it is crazy to dine out: fine, but just because you think it is crazy doesn't make it so!!!
If you feel the need to be with others and you want to enjoy a drink or a dinner out; go ahead. You aren't really hurting anyone else..
Not necessarily. It's true that people who eat in restaurants all choose to take that risk. But then all those diners go other places and expose those people to the consequences of their risky dining out.
We’ve been eating at the deli in the grocery store on Fridays before we do our shopping . The store is huge and dispersed. There is usually no one there.
So, have you guys been eating out or getting takeout more since a month ago? I got takeout 2 more times since my last & only time on 6/7/20.
I got Chinese from this eatery & Little Caesar's pizza today.
We were - until our mayor shut them all down again starting this week. We usually went on nice days to places that had outside seating. Or, at off times when there were fewer people in the restaurant. The quality of food diminishes so much for take-out versus eat-in that if I can't eat-in I'm going to cook at home. But, I get tired of cooking every day so a break once or twice a week was nice.
I felt, and still, do that the precautions restaurants were taking were reasonable and I was never too worried about catching something. Not that it couldn't happen, but that the risk was tolerable to me. Driving or even walking to the restaurant also carries a degree of risk.
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