Indoor Dining Will Shut Down in New York City Again
Source: New York Times
Indoor dining will once again be barred in New York City restaurants starting on Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Friday, a significant reversal of the city’s reopening that comes as officials try to halt the escalation of a second wave of the coronavirus. The decision, which Mr. Cuomo earlier this week suggested was all but certain, is a crushing blow to the city’s restaurant industry, a vital economic pillar that has been struggling all year in the face of pandemic restrictions and a national recession.
For months, New York City’s restaurant owners have warned that their businesses, many of which operate on tight margins in the best of times, are on the edge of financial collapse. Thousands of employees, many of them low-wage workers, have been laid off since March, and their jobs have yet to fully return.
The industry’s anxieties are only mounting as winter approaches and frigid temperatures threaten to deter customers from dining outdoors. Industry groups have called repeatedly for federal or state financial assistance, with restaurant and bar owners watching nervously as stimulus talks drag on in Washington.
“Another forced government closure of New York City restaurants will cause an irreversible harm on even countless more small businesses and the hundreds of thousands of workers they employ, especially if it is not coupled with financial relief,” Andrew Rigie, the executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, said in a statement on Monday. Mr. Cuomo’s announcement came after weeks of shifting messages on indoor dining, which resumed in New York City only at the end of September.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/nyregion/indoor-dining-nyc.html
I know PA is shutting down indoor dining state-wide as of Saturday 12:01 am. Philly had been more restrictive only opening limited indoor dining just after Labor Day.
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My pantries are packed as are my freezers and I even have bins of "stores" of non-perishables. 
I think the last time I actually ate out at a "sit down" restaurant was a couple years ago when me, my sisters & BILs did a combo "Derby Day" / "Cinco de Mayo" thing at a Mexican restaurant not far from me. That's when I discovered the frozen Chambord margarita and it has been a fave ever since that I make at home regularly! 
my bookcases are full of books otherwise I would have used them. I may have to rearrange the shelves... Have had to keep a text file inventory of what I have so I don't get carried away.
My newest books are on my iPad.
and smells like an old book I'll think about it. 
Makes it look like "the real thing".
(sike!)
That's 7 out of the last 9 days with over 10,000 per day. 
(and I remember not long ago gasping at FL and TX reporting numbers like that and their populations are much bigger than PA)
