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There’s no excuse for eating indoors at a restaurant right now that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “I really want to,” and that just isn’t good enough https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
If you’re going to make a selfish decision, at least have the courage to own up to it. Don’t wrap it in personal exceptionalism or a weird veneer of altruism. Your desire to do this outweighs your concern about the consequences! That’s just how it is!
As with so much of the “how should we behave during covid?” conversation, opening indoor dining is the government contradicting itself — a desire for economic progress at odds with the urgent need for pandemic progress https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
The problem with opening indoor dining is that it doesn’t actually help the ongoing economic disaster, AND it raises the risk of infection for *literally everyone* — restaurant workers and customers and everyone those ppl come into contact with https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
A particularly enraging way that the government has failed us during covid has been to create this narrative of individual responsibility: it’s up to customers to save businesses & jobs & communities. That’s impossible to do, it’s manipulative and hollow https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
It’s a tautology: We cannot as individuals do the thing that government (ostensibly) exists to do, which is to protect people in a way that surpasses the capacity of individuals https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
The thing is, we know already how much we have been failed. We’ve already been through the cycle of indoor dining reopening, and then closing again.
We can’t save each other in the way the government should’ve saved us, but we still owe each other care. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
We can’t save each other in the way the government should’ve saved us, but we still owe each other care. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
When NYC indoor dining first reopened in September, the 7-day average for new infections was in the 300s; on December 11th, when Cuomo shut it down, it was 3,391. On Friday, when he announced the Valentine’s Day reopening, it was 5,579. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
The best — the only — way to save businesses, save jobs, and help workers is to end the Covid-19 pandemic as quickly as fucking possible.
Anything that doesn’t speed the end is spitting into the wind. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
Anything that doesn’t speed the end is spitting into the wind. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate-isnt-a-debate-at-all
Some of the anti-scold scolds in my mentions are pointing to this @eater article as proof that indoor dining is A-OK. Sorry boo but this is a poorly written article with a dangerously misleading headline! https://ny.eater.com/2020/12/11/22169841/restaurants-and-bars-coronavirus-spread-data-new-york
For starters, it’s irresponsible in a headline to state single-study findings as fact. More deeply, contact tracing is the single least reliable data metric, especially in the US, especially in NY, where it’s both voluntary and self-reported
Mobility studies of cell gps data — which track entire populations, not just self-reported infected people self-reporting their movements — show without a doubt that ALL indoor interaction contributes to spread. Restaurants, which by nature involve masklessness, are hotspots.
Kudos and thanks to @eater for updating the headline & content of this story to more accurately reflect the nature of the data it’s reporting on https://ny.eater.com/2020/12/11/22169841/restaurants-and-bars-coronavirus-spread-data-new-york
