The New Risks of Dining Out While the pandemic is easing in many places, more contagious variants of COVID-19 make this moment riskier for workers and diners alike (Good Grief)

Eater San Francisco ^ | Feb 3, 2021 | Elazar Sontag

[Vendome]

Restaurants depleted by a nearly year-long crisis are swinging open their doors and welcoming diners back to dining rooms and roadside tables in bids for survival. But the growing government laxity around restaurant dining is not a sign that either practice is necessarily safe, nor that decreasing positivity rates will continue without ongoing vigilance. On the contrary, new variants of the coronavirus, along with more than 100,000 new infections still being recorded nationally each day, may make this moment more dangerous than the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, for workers and diners alike.

There are real reasons to be optimistic, to be sure: Before the end of the year, if a large portion of Americans are vaccinated, life has the potential to look a lot more normal. But as the good news comes, so too do reports of novel variants of the coronavirus being detected in a number of states, such as B.1.1.7, which appears to have originated in the United Kingdom, and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “spreads more easily and quickly than other variants.” This highly contagious variant, which seems to potentially be more lethal than was initially predicted and is already spreading across the United States, could be the dominant source of new infections domestically by March, according to the CDC. Another variant, B.1.351, first detected in South Africa, which is both seemingly more contagious and less responsive to vaccines, has also recently been detected in the U.S. And in Brazil, a variant called P.1 is spreading aggressively; especially concerning is the fact that it may be able to evade antibodies and reinfect some people who have previously contracted the virus.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sure...now that you mention it, it feels like we are living in it!

[ronnie raygun]

The plan is still alive. Sadly the sheeple are still viewing fear porn