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Takeout trash mounts for Capital Region restaurants
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With COVID times showing more and more takeout in the dining scene, how much trash collects?Iryna Veklich/Getty Images
When restaurants were forced to quickly pivot from regular dining operations to to-go only options at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, one necessary logistical issue was the increased use of takeout containers. Containers were the only way restaurants could serve their food and became a critical element in keeping the restaurant open for operation, even if the dining room was closed.
Todd J. Leach, owner of TJ’s Cafe on Central Avenue in Albany, said that pre-pandemic, takeout orders totaled 30 to 35 percent of all business for his restaurant. During the pandemic, that grew to 70 percent. On Tuesday chicken Parmesan special night, he would serve 300 takeout dinners. Including pasta or potato, soup or salad and bread and butter, the container needs to properly transport the food out of t
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New York State Assembly Bill A416 was introduced by Nick Perry, a Democratic Assemblyman. According to him, the bill “relates to the removal of cases, contacts, and carriers of communicable diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public health.”
The New York State Assembly’s Health Committee has dated the discussion of the bill on January 6, 2021.
When the governor or health officer determines “by clear and convincing evidence that the health of others is or may be endangered by a case, contact or carrier” they “may order the removal and/or detention of such a person or of a group of such persons by issuing a single order,” the bill states.
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Six months ago amid the panic and the hype surrounding the coronavirus outbreak the New Zealand government made an announcement that went mostly unnoticed by the mainstream media. It was a policy decision that the whole western world should have been up in arms about, but at the time the public was still processing the pandemic chaos. New Zealand was instituting what amounted to covid prisons - Medical quarantine facilities where ANY citizen suspected of being a covid carrier could be detained without due process for as long as the government saw fit. Not only that, but these covid camps would fall under the jurisdiction of the military. In other words, the NZ covid response was quietly being shifted into martial law.