Posted on 11/30/2020 12:24:46 PM PST by Vendome
Willie Lewis Brown Jr., San Francisco’s mayor from 1996 to 2004, says that he has a solution for San Francisco’s struggling restaurants: Require diners to take a COVID-19 test within 72 hours before they sit down to eat. Implementing a rule like this “would do a lot to bring people back,” Brown says, adding that the program would make dining out “risk-free.”
Brown argues that restaurants across the city could bring in more diners if they would “advertise that your store, your restaurant or your public space is available only to people who had a negative test in the past 72 hours.”
“Just think, instead of a Michelin-approval restaurant, you had a risk-free space where all employees and customers knew everyone was infection-free,“ Brown writes, saying “it would do a lot to bring people back.”
UCSF epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford agrees, telling ABC 7 that “no amount of testing is going to absolutely guarantee you’re safe.”
Writing for CNN, ER doctor Megan Ranney explains the issues with testing strategies like Brown’s, saying that “a test just represents a moment in time. Just like you can have a negative pregnancy test today, but already actually be pregnant, similarly — unless you’ve been quarantining for the last 14 days — you could have a negative test today, but still be contagious” the day following.
“The purpose of testing is not to provide a free pass,” Ranney writes. “It does not prove that you aren’t infectious today, and it certainly doesn’t prove that you’re not infectious tomorrow.”
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Not going to fault Willie here.
He loves San Francisco
Hmmm.
Wait hours in line for a stupid chest cold test to over-pay for a meal. Or cook my own food in the comfort of my home and not worry about all that shite? Hmmm. Thinking.. Thinking.. It’s such a difficult decision.. /s
Amen. Super corrupt, but he does love San Francisco. Gotta be killing him to see what’s going on.
Who pays for these tests?
Zactly
In-n-Out, McDonald’s, Top Ramen, Door Dash...
It’s been going in for years. How many radical SF politicians and stupid lefty policies has he campaigned against?
LOL Willie.
Yep, that occurs to me too.
So much for spur of the moment, hey, let’s go out to dinner tonight. They want to set up a system by which you have to plan these events days in advance?????
How about the same for AIDS testing?
...including the restaurant staff.
Fair point.
Dunno
Can’t even get honest answers to that question from blood donors or those on dating sites.
They would have to provide proof to their guests that the entire staff is germ free as well...
The restaurants will pay just like health care clinics and nursing homes do in Oregon.
ITS CALLED: USE COVID SCAM TO COLLECT MORE TAXES.
“Who pays for these tests?”
.gov for now but the money runs out at the end of the year.
As an example Rite-Aid will charge $115 starting next year.
I have seen bills as high as $300+ when the labs screwed up and sent the end user the bill.
Wasn’t there a restaurant that charged $50 per head upon admission for testing ?
Exactly. Extract money from one segment of the economy to regulate/influence/control another.
And since the control is in the hands of politicians their palms will have to be greased.
You don’t understand... this is the first step in requiring you get the vaccine in order to step out in public... it won’t be the government requiring it... it will be all the business owners. It will start with tests and then move to vaccines.
What business does a restaurant have inquiring on a customer’s medical history? This sounds to me like a Big Brother invasion of privacy.
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