Quote Originally Posted by Tammy View Post
Exactly!

I wish they would at least admit that they broke the rules. But nope. They justify themselves.
If it was legal they DID NOT break the rules. Period. So was indoor dining legal there or not? Because if it was they did not break the rules.

Now was a smart thing to do? No, it was not.

But our government is ridiculous. It expects people to entirely figure out what the smart thing is to do on thier own, if it does not shut dangerous things down. The thing is noone can do this entirely and not everyone is extremely informed either, heck many are barely or are not literate in any population, don't speak the language very well and it gets lost in translation, etc.. So they aren't the informed consumers of their fantasies and the government officials do KNOW that. And even if one considers oneself informed, one knows that restaurants are dangerous: but there is an outdoor gym here, it sounds like a party going on all the time, it's partly outdoors has a tent roof, chain link fence partly covered for walls, but it is *partly* outdoors. Machines are probably bare 6 feet away, people are huffing and puffing, are they wearing masks, legally they need to be but I have no idea, let's assume so. Is that gym legal? Yea. Is it safe? I seriously think it's a superspreader event waiting to happen! But I don't actually have the knowledge to really figure out what the real risks of that gym are for certain (and yes I'd like to go to the gym, but I'm not risking covid). I understand about indoor spread, I understand about outdoor spread being many orders of magnitude less. I don't understand what the heck THAT is though. The advice about outdoor spread being relatively safe was probably for people distanced in a park or on the beach with no roof or walls and much more space between people, or for people briefly passing on a walk for 1 minute, not for a situation like that.