Posted on 01/04/2021 7:13:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
For the first time in 41 years, Mount Washington Tavern in north Baltimore closed its doors Monday without its owners or staff knowing when they would reopen.
Last week, the owners posted a message online saying with a heavy heart, they were closing the restaurant until dining restrictions designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 are lifted.
“It feels surreal, it feels sad and heartbreaking,” manager and bartender Stephenie Moschera said. “Something we never thought we would have to do.”
The decision to temporarily close was a tough one, she added.
“Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the carryout business wasn’t enough to sustain us… just opening the doors and turning on the lights is a hit right there,” she said.
Another Baltimore restaurant, Mama’s on the Half Shell, also temporarily closed, citing the city’s restriction on indoor dining.
In the meantime, the staff at its sister restaurant, Nacho Mama’s in Towson, will be serving some of Mama’s on the Half Shell’s signature dishes.
Indoor dining is still allowed in Baltimore County.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said he did not make the decision to close down indoor and outdoor dining “lightly but I made it with the best interest of public health in mind. Keeping people healthy and alive is my number one duty.”
In the past 4 weeks, Baltimore City has seen a 19% reduction in total cases but a 10% increase in deaths. The city’s positivity rate is 5.3%.
We’re still seeing far too many cases in Baltimore,” Scott said on the Urban Health Beat podcast. “…While we’re seeing the spread slow in some ways, we are nowhere near out of the woods.”
As of Monday, the city’s COVID-19 positivity rate was 5.3% While the number of cases in the city has fallen by 19% over the past four weeks, according to the city’s health department, the number of deaths climbed by 10% over that same period.
In total, the city has seen 32,495 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.
Last month, the Restaurant Association of Maryland sued the city as well as Montgomery and Prince George’s counties seeking to overturn indoor dining bans in those jurisdictions.
The whole country seems surreal.
Mt. Washington Tavern. Mama’s.
Wow.
Next thing you know, it’ll be Angelina’s.
Or Haussmann’s...
... oh, wait...
The first to scream about the lack of local restaurants after the CCPVirus restrictions are lofted will be the lefties who demanded endless shutdown and and restrictions.
Yep, there goes headquarters...
I think you mean Haussner’s. Loved the strawberry pie.
MD ping!
Test more healthy people. Positivity goes under 5%. Problem solved.
This fake number is easy to manipulate, depending whether the government that day wants to meet a goal for opening up or get a big number to scare people.
The positivity rate overall in Brazil is 27% because they can’t afford to test ANYBODY who isn’t sick. They also have no asymptomatic cases.
No more shut-downs until they tell us how many of the 5% have symptoms, mild symptoms, sympmptoms more serious than seasonal flu, etc.
Nope. Just democrat run places. !
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
A relative told me on the phone that a Walmart in the KC area temporarily closed for lack of employees. Too many were sick at home and quarantined.
“Sick,” or tested positive?
Shut up and wear the mask.
Um, no. No more shutdowns EVER! These tyrants should never, ever have been allowed to assume this power. And by tyrants, I mean politicians, “health” directors, and doctors (particularly those like Fauci).
I wonder what a 5% positivity rate really means.
I watch the “new cases” in the two main coastal counties in S. MS and am starting to believe that a lot of folks get tested more than once and end up like Dem votes - counted multiple times....then, if they get tested and show antibodies, they get counted another time as “having been a positive case”.
No proof - just a hunch
And informed public in a free society should have both: information on the severity of illness of these positive test persons and no dictatorship-like shutdowns.
Positivity rate is just the number of people testing positive divided by number of tests taken. It is a scam in my opinion. The local university tests everyone twice a week when in session. They have had positivity rates below 1% except for a couple weeks at the beginning of fall semester. Even then, it was at 2% for only a few days. The rest of the people in the town and county only get tested if they feel bad or it is required for work. I would take a bet that if the townies were tested as frequently as the university, there wouldn't be much difference in the positivity rates and the current mitigation rules wouldn't be justified. The state covid counters removed the university figures from our regional statistics last fall.
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