“Eating indoors at a restaurant is one of the riskiest things you can do in a pandemic,” she said. “Even if there is distancing, as this shows and other studies show, the distancing is not enough.” @linseymarr

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/five-minutes-from-20-feet-away-south-korean-study-shows-perils-of-indoor-dining-for-covid-19

2/ Diagram of airflow in a South Korean restaurant in which those who were sitting in the path of the air downstream from infected case got infected (incl more than 6 feet away)

Those facing away from the airflow did not

#covid19

3/ Thread below — just because something is open right now doesn’t mean it’s safe. High risk activities are high risk activities. Over 3,000 Americans died yesterday from this virus. #covid19 https://twitter.com/abraarkaran/status/1336389596863746052

4/ Any place that you have your masks off indoors around others that are not part of your daily social circle introduces another chance for viral spread.

Indoor dining at restaurants is part of this- but so can be indoor dinner gatherings at home w/ multiple friends #covid19

5/ Again— risk reduction is key; keeping windows open should help; avoiding these higher risk activities for the next few weeks is the most ideal. Sometimes, that won’t be possible for everyone. The last thing we need is people to give up Bc they can’t do it “perfectly” #covid19

6/ Perfect is the enemy of “good enough to get R<1 consistently”— we need to shrink the epidemic; we need to do whatever part we can in that; but we are human beings, we will not do everything “perfectly”- we can try every day to do things better.
#covid19

7/ Alongside everything we are doing at the individual level, we need to also keep pushing our state leaders to ensure that state policies reflect what is in best interest of public health; what stops the epidemic fastest will likely be best for the economy in the long run too