The rules are a mess right now, I don’t know what is allowed and what isn’t or where, so I can’t comment on this particular incident. But non essential businesses are open in much of LA at 35% capacity.
So this movie shoot is allowed to be open with limited capacity even if it is not essential. And if the shoot is allowed to happen, the people working it have to eat. So this isn’t “outdoor dining” but more likely workers given a place to hold their lunch break.
I don’t know, though, but there is a logical explanation for this.
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I mean you’ve called LA county/their rules “a mess” twice on this page yet you kind sorta defend the concept of allowing the movie studio employees to dine outside while the restaurant across the lot cannot allow “outdoor dining”, asserting there is a logical explanation. It doesn’t add up for the peasant class, myself included.
Falls City Beer (12-04-2020),LeDoux (12-04-2020)
I am just providing a logical explanation. It may not be the actual explanation.
The rules are a mess right now, no one really knows what they are, and they keep changing. But based on what I do know, this is a logical explanation for that set up.
If it is for a movie shoot, it’s not outdoor dining. Outdoor dining involves sitting among strangers and being waited on by strangers. If this is just a meal break set up, then it is a group of employees sitting outside as they eat their meal. No strangers, no waiters. A completely different situation safety wise. This is no different than Krogers setting up a place outside for their employees to eat on their break. And this has nothing to do with the entertainment industry being essential or not, as non-essential businesses are still open.
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Revering4Blue (12-04-2020)
Rojo (12-04-2020)
I’d just argue that if an area allows the movie industry to carry on (with precautions) they should allow (businesses and customers) the choice to dine outside at a restaurant (with precautions).
Sure, you get more “contact tracing” at a movie set vs a restaurant of randos if a case develops, but that is missing the big picture in terms of certain things being allowed and certain things shut down.
dabvu2498 (12-04-2020),Falls City Beer (12-04-2020),M2 (12-04-2020),Rojo (12-04-2020)
Yeah it makes zero sense to close outdoor dining anywhere that can distance tables and stuff, but especially in LA
That is something that is actually completely arbitrary security theater. Covid basically doesn’t spread outside.
M2 (12-04-2020)
It’s not just about the contact tracing. It’s the constant influx of new people, who then sit around each other without a mask for an extended period of time. That is exactly what is trying to be avoided.
Right now all businesses are allowed to be open, with limited capacity. If everything was closed, but movie shoots were allowed to continue, you would have an argument. But that isn’t the case here.
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Rojo (12-04-2020)
You really stretch things. You are the one creating the strawman of "reticent Black people" who are somehow equating the Tuskegee incident with a vaccine meant to help get the world back from a pandemic. You are the one equating people urging people to get vaccinated with the holocaust, which I find offensive for a number of reasons that I don't wish to list here.
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