The workers still have to be indoors. Do you not care about their well being? How many bar and restaurant workers get health insurance from their employer?
I care very much about their wellbeing, which is why it’s so important they are able to go back to work.
NY is a Medicaid Expansion state. The bar and restaurant workers likely qualify for free (under 133% FPL) or substantially subsidized ACA plans.
Right now, the mask-wearing hand-washing under 40-year-old
restaurant worker in NYC, with a positivity rating of 1% (the noise floor) are probably more at risk from dying due to lightening strike in their lifetime (1 in 180k) than of COVID.
I absolutely do. I try to wear a mask as much as possible, though it can't be 100% when dining. Some 30% of NYC renters haven't paid rent since March and may face eviction. If I can help restaurant staff do that, that's a help. And plus, infection rates are low and stable in NY.
In an ideal world, we all go to sleep until a vaccine arrives, but we live in a world far from ideal.
