Posted on 01/31/2021 12:16:46 AM PST by L.A.Justice
After weeks of being limited to takeout and delivery, struggling restaurants in Los Angeles were allowed to reopen for outdoor dining Friday with new restrictions in place.
Restaurants must require employees to wear a face mask and shield, tables must be eight feet apart and seat no more than six people, and televisions are not allowed to be turned on.
"Televisions or any other screens that are used to broadcast programming must be removed from the area or turned off," the order from the Los Angeles Department of Public Health says. "This provision is effective until further notice."
This no-TVs edict is likely in place to prevent people from gathering at restaurants to watch the Super Bowl next week.
"We really do need to be cautious as we move forward, given we have a major sporting event. We’ve seen lots of people together shouting, yelling, screaming during the excitement of a game," Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis said this week about the Super Bowl, according to the Los Feliz Register. "This should be a virtual get-together, just like many of you celebrated the holidays with just your immediate family present."
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I am looking forward to a day when some bureaucrat would no longer issue such stupid orders...
Unless it's tuned to CNN?
Seriously, how can the mere presence of turned-on tvs affect the spread of the virus?!
Regards,
Yeah, because those TVs really spread viruses.
These unelected bureaucrat ‘scientists’ are just as dang stupid and illogical as the politicians they ‘serve’.
The rational is apparently that patrons will gather around the TVs, and establishments would be unlikely to have enough personnel to prevent that.
Really? I actually move away from TVs in public areas. In my mind, they are a good way to make people disperse.
Regards,
C’me on man. They’re just following the science. /S
In one year the frog has been boiled in a pot.
Some tv can be seen online so
maybe each person can watch the SB
that way unless game blocked somehow
Marxism is ugly.
“to prevent people from gathering at restaurants to watch the Super Bowl”
Hmmm. I know it’s another stupid rule, but...well, I guess the SB will just have to sacrifice for the “greater good” also.
“to prevent people from gathering at restaurants to watch the Super Bowl”
Fauci tried to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas. I think it’s only prudent that he promote the cancellation of the SB.
CNN is not pleased.
I missed the part of the Constitution where it said they could ban stuff, but here we are.
Of course! Fair is fair.
Seriously, how can the mere presence of turned-on tvs affect the spread of the virus?!
No TVs would certainly ease the problem of covid. The less fear porn the better.
ALL tv can be found on line. Just take a laptop with a good sized screen.
Whole table can watch.
They don’t want people gathering and discussing all the bad news and viewing dementia-in-chief making a mockery of the USA.
When seated your left elbow must not touch the chair at any time and you must use your right hand to eat. Forks only, no spoons because the concave may spread the disease by direction of the California Health Code.
I am looking forward to a day when some bureaucrat would no longer issue such stupid orders...
You must have great vision to see that horizon.
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