These deaths are on the Democrats. If not for the lockdowns, these people would have been eating indoors.
Seating diners where they can be struck by vehicles and not having pilings to protect them is deathly negligent.
We see, what you have described above all over N. California due to the Omnicrud B$!
Many of our main streets were of old vintage and had narrow streets with the sidewalks next to the streets often with minimal if any curbs.
So, in typical Covid knee jerk Wisdom, those sidewalks were overrun by tables & chairs, lights & plastic flowers.
Besides the obvious hazards, how about the vehicle exhaust fumes to fine tune your taste/smell senses.
There are lots of places in the DC area where restaurants have outdoor seating, and could be hit by a wayward car. That isn’t new with Covid at all, it’s been true for a long time. And we’ve had very nice weather a few days during the last week - people have wanted to be outside.
I can’t argue with you over the onerous ‘Covid’ rules; but we’ve had incidents like this before Covid, including cars crashing into INDOOR restaurants.
This was a problem with the driver and/or his car.