Posted on 11/17/2020 10:25:49 AM PST by Vendome
San Francisco’s Department of Public Health (DPH) has shut down at least 10 bars across the city, saying that even after repeated warnings, the venues continued to violate health orders intended to slow the spread of COVID-19. And according Ben Bleiman, the city’s most vocal defender of bars and nightlife, they should shut down even more.
According to DPH spokesperson Jenna Lane, that list is accurate, but she hastened to add that all of those closures were only temporary, and that as of November 11, all the bars had reopened.
Here’s how it works, Lane says: Members of the public will call 311 to report a scofflaw business, and inspectors with the DPH’s Food Safety Program will then conduct “a thorough investigation” that includes independent verification of the violation, an inspection of the premises, and “education to address any lack of understanding of the health order requirements.”
Most of the notices of violation the DPH has issued to bars have involved “improper or lack of proper facial covering...improper social distancing and facilities serving alcohol without a bona fide meal.”
“People can’t get it right all the time,” Bleiman said of the maze of restrictions facing bars, which include rules on music (not allowed, as it causes people to raise their voices to speak and this increases the potential for viral spread), televisions (they’re not allowed to be on indoors), and the types of meals a bar must serve to be allowed to also sell a drink (the state Alcoholic Beverage Control requires what they call “bona fide meals,” as opposed to, say, chips and dip). But the bar owners he works with “are all trying to do their best,” Bleiman says, which is why places that fail to follow the rules “deeply offend us.”
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Bleiman says, which is why places that fail to follow the rules “deeply offend us.”
not allowed, as it causes people to raise their voices to speak and this increases the potential for viral spread
With logic like this by the powers that be are truly doomed.
The last thing our “betters” want is for We The People to raise our voices.
Trust me on this one!
Reopen as ADULT CARE CENTERS!
San Francisco's Department of Public Health (DPH) has shut down at least 10 bars across the city, saying that even after repeated warnings, the venues continued to violate health orders intended to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Oh, that's what they're for.
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