[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by valuemkt

Nothing is being taken away from you. Restaurants are run by capitalists .. people who put up their own money to provide a service for a targeted market: those people who enjoy the restaurants food, surroundings and ambience. Prior to COVID, it was still a business with a very high failure rate. Over the past six months, it became even more perilous. They need a certain capacity to remain in business. If ten people decide to patronize the restaurant, and you decide you no longer like the surroundings and ambience, they may find they don;t miss you, and perhaps they can still survive, and hopefully thrive. THEY dont owe you anything. The governor is removing restrictions so the economy can pick up and run, and stop the hand-outs. If you have an idea for a restaurant that has a large footprint of mostly empty space that insures patrons stay far away from each other and follows whatever rules you deem to insure health and safety, knock yourself out and put up your own money. It is a FREE country after all .. but you have no right to put a business persons welfare at risk by dictating what kind of people patronize their facility, or what rules they should follow.

The problem to me is someone comes to a restaurant, sits too close to someone who unknowing has the virus and it comes to a new person who in turns infects others.