Temporary closures hit Seattle bars and restaurants after staff test positive for COVID-19

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Starting two weeks ago, a series of Seattle restaurants and bars posted on Instagram what has come to be a sign of a new wave of coronavirus spreading through the city: temporary closures.

Jupiter Bar, Vito’s, Shorty’s, and Rhumba were among the nine Seattle bars that temporarily closed in the past week. Some were because of confirmed cases on staff, others, "out of an abundance of caution."

The resurgence of COVID-19 cases also hit Shelter Lounge’s Green Lake location, and Screwdriver Bar in Belltown. Along with places that didn’t publicly announce the infection or close, people tracking estimate more than 20 Seattle restaurants have had a positive case among vaccinated staff.

With each wave of infections, the restaurant and bar community gets hit hard – it’s one of the few public places where even in the depths of the mask mandate, the public gathered and removed their masks. That put the people working those restaurants, at high risk of contracting the virus – one study showed line cooks had the top risk of dying from the novel coronavirus of any profession.

https://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/food/article/After-COVID-uptick-Seattle-restaurants-to-16352972.php

[Phoenix61]

1. Heck they closed a Wal-Mart here for "cleaning"

at 2:00 on a Sunday. Couple days later Home Goods was closed for “cleaning” too. No one will say it was due to covid but of course it was.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Cleaning. LOL!

We're still behaving like Idiots.

We can't mandate something that will actually help, like Wearing Masks, so we compensate by doing something useless, like cleaning a store, LOOOOOOONNNNGG after it was likely contaminated in the first place.

And we know by now that the chances of catching covid from surfaces, is extremely low, and that the virus cannot just hang in the air for days.

All of this stupidity, and inconvenience, because a large % of the population are Big Fucking Selfish Babies, and can't follow practical rules in place for people's safety. Or better yet, GET VACCINATED!

[BigmanPigman]

3. Ditto!!!

My 1st grade students were more mature than the maskholes. I think they are doing it to own the Libs which apparently is more important to them that not dying.