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Regarding a restaurant’s email declaring its plans to reopen outside dining, citing “freedom of choice”:
Is it OK if I smoke amid the people there? Or, maybe yell “fire!” just for the fun of it?
Freedom of choice and all that.
Your current application of freedom of choice against COVID-19 restrictions alarms me. It is specifically contrary to the efforts of the state of California to keep us alive and not in the hospital. I believe restaurants are the highest locations of contagion, right up there with places of worship.
I was alarmed enough when your outside dining seemed full on Thanksgiving as my expectation was that it would be at reduced capacity relative to the guidelines in place at the time. Seems to me that the compliance you offer shouldn’t mean with just