On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 10:51:32 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>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?

We haven't had as much as a coffee out since Feb 2020. And there isn't
even any covid here.