Kyle

This is just a personal observation I’ve made over the recent week, week and a half. The outdoor dining seems to have loosened people’s perception that getting up and meandering table to table is okay. I walk my dog up through town every night (Street is shut down for outdoor dining) and there are always a bunch of people talking to friends at another table, hugging neighbors they see, etc etc. I haven’t been inside a to watch yet but I can’t imagine that same thing is going on inside. bar service could be open if the bar did things the right way. One place here had two, 4 person spots at the bar 6 feet apart and divided by an unused high top table if 1 person came in and sat in that 4 person section, that’s it, the other 3 sit empty, if you’re coming in as a group of 2 or 3 or 4 they required you all came in together and not have 1 or 2 people show up early and the other two come staggered, no different than sitting at a table imo.

You mean kids who constantly have their fingers in their mouths, sneeze without covering their mouths, lick anything and everything possible, etc etc can’t spread it? She’s got her head so far in the sand she probably knows the lottery numbers in China for tomorrow.

Wonder what the numbers would be if we had legitimate, and readily available testing back in March at the beginning of everything. Would we have seen these recent “spikes” or would we have had an onslaught of cases in late March/ early April.

Right, however as feasible as outdoor dining is, its also given people a false sense of security. The block in front of my house is shut down for outdoor dining, I walk through there every night with my dog (mask on) and on the weekends it’s a table to table free for all. People are up and meandering to other tables, catching up with their neighbors, etc etc. if you’re going to shut 1/3 of a thing down, shut it all down. It’s stupid to tell people it’s okay to sit at a table but you can’t sit at the bar. Granted, I may be taking the definition of “bar” as a restaurant/pub bar, but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Either shut it all down or nothing at all, or put a capacity limit on it. the one brewpub up the street from me did their bar service right. 8 person capacity at a bar that normally seats 20. Two 4 person sections. You HAD to come in as a group, if you didn’t your friends that showed up later couldn’t sit with you,. If you were a single person you were sat at the bar and took up the entire “4” person section of the bar and they had a 2 hour limit. After 2 hours you had to leave. You could come back 2 minutes later but if seats weren’t available you were SOL. and now they can’t do anything via the bar and are relying on 10 tables to make money because the state doesn’t recognize their upstairs open air area as “outdoor”. Shutting down close quarter bar only type places makes sense, shutting down the bar area of a restaurant that’s following the rules doesn’t, either shut all dining services other than takeout or delivery down or dont do it at all. I think smoking at a bar in PA is banned, unless it’s a private club.

I’m aware of that, and agree it makes sense to close them, but what doesn’t make sense is how bars are being targeted but not the beach, public pools, dining, gyms, shops, etc etc.

Yeah, closing bars isn’t going to do the trick

I took that line out to Pittsburgh for the stadium series game a few years ago. Not a bad ride. Bunch of other flyers fans on the train and they ran out of beer around Altoona edit: not to mention “business” first class was like $75 each way or something like that. Nice reclinable chair with power outlets and plenty of leg room.

Judging by friends Facebook posts and snapchats, Florida, and those traveling to it, continue to not give a fuck.

If it means being able to stay open and selling another $4 beer or $6-8 mixed drink I’m willing to bet a bar would sell $.25 bags of chips.

Wolf just knocked restaurant capacity to 25%, have to buy food to buy alcohol at an establishment.

Lots of stories going around of people making testing appointments, and somehow getting “positive results” in the mail before they even take the test. not sure I believe it one bit, but the rumor mill has been churning out some pretty crazy things so far this year

Hockessin, Greenville, and Newark might as well be in PA anyway. I have friends that live in PA, and their neighbors behind them are in Delaware.

Dropping like flies in OCMD. Probably a smart move.

Fish Tales, Purple Moose, and Crabcake Factory in OCMD all closing due to employees contracting the virus.

What blows my mind about it is his fiancé is in her last year of medical school, one of those “you should know better” situations.

She’s buying Vladimir......

My buddy who lives in Florida went to Disney today (passholder). People in Florida do not give a fuck anymore.

My sister works in an icu outside of Wilmington DE. They have to report how full the icu is and which patients are COVID, but she’s fairly certain the media is taking the first number. They have more gunshot patients in that icu than COVID yet local media is reporting said hospitals ICU beds are quickly filling up with new COVID patients

I wonder how many business’s would just flat out defy the order to go back to yellow phase.

Depends on the store. I know of one that’s open year round while there are others that are only open may-October, etc etc

Pretty much everywhere you can’t maintain social distancing

I wonder how much California’s population density is playing into those totals, it’s doesn’t help issue at hand, but 6k new cases in LA is not a whole lot compared to the population there.

I went out to eat at my local spot tonight. Had to wear a mask until you were seated, they had bar seating however it was only 8 chairs for a bar that normally seats 30 people. You could be in a group of up to 4 at the bar, or 6 at a table but you all had to enter at the same time (I was alone). Wear a mask whenever you leave your seat, don’t mingle with other tables/groups etc. pretty standard stuff. One thing this place did do though was put an automatic hand sanitizer dispenser by every table and behind each “grouping” of seats at the bar. It was a Monday night so it was empty, however I thought their approach to it was pretty well thought out.