Print 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