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Dear Community Leaders,Â
Thank you for all you have done over the past months to thread a difficult needle of maintaining public health as well as seeking to maintain the momentum of our local economy. We are truly grateful for the countless hours of hard work.Â
As restaurateurs, we do ask, however, for a reexamination of the extensive regulations placed on restaurants in this time of rising COVID cases. There is little evidence that restaurants â operating as they were with limited capacity for the past several months â contributed to the current rise in cases. In all likelihood, not allowing people â patrons and restaurateurs alike â to exercise their right to assume their own level of risk results in more individuals gathering in smaller settings like homes with little-to-no COVID protections or protocols. The unintended consequence of your highly restrictive restaurant policies is a higher rate of infection.Â