On 2/6/2021 9:58 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-02-06 9:47 p.m., Leo wrote:
>> On 2021 Feb 6, , jmcquown wrote
>> (in article >):
>>
>>> Happy Birthday to your SIL. Thanks for the pics.
>>
>> My SIL thanks you for your thoughts. Seventy is a "more significant than
>> ordinary" milestone.
>>
>>
> My 70th birthday sort of sucked. We had planned to go out for dinner
> with my son and his fiancee. Restaurants had been closed to indoor
> dining for a few months and had reopened... with strict limits and
> controls. Just before my birthday they changed the rules again...
> maximum four people ate a table and they all had live in the same
> residence. We semi recovered the dinner with my son picking up a take
> out order from the restaurant we had hoped to eat at. I had a rain
> check from my wife. She was going to take me to a restaurant with just
> the two of us. Then we went back into lock down.
>
> It looks like things are going to open up soon. I plan to go out at the
> first opportunity, just in case they close again.

Dave. You are the perfect example of why the Covid virus persists. Just
as soon as "some official" lowers the restrictions, many run out to
drink or eat in public. Then the cases rise and you go on lockdown again.

WTH is wrong with you and many others? Are you people just so miserable
eating at home? Why is it so desirable to eat in a room with many
strangers and risk getting a deadly virus?

I thought the cell phone craze pretty much solved the lonely factor.
Evidently not.