After adding an Instagram-ready photo wall to the Bethesda Streetery, Bethesda Urban Partnership has added other updates to the two outdoor dining areas in downtown Bethesda. Dining tents and twinkling lights, many upon small Christmas trees, can now be found along these street segments closed for outdoor dining at Bethesda Row and in the Woodmont Triangle. Whether diners will still find these arrangements agreeable in 20 degree temperatures, or the science to back up the safety of a largely-enclosed tent amidst an airborne virus will be determined, remain unknown.
How are all these tents any different from sitting in a restaurant? They all look like enclosed places? When will this madness stop and we just accept that people die and this is media driven hysteria?
ReplyDeleteThese dining tents are COVID hotboxes. At least have the sides open. What a completely and totally stupid idea this is. If you're going to do this, you might as well have people dining inside restaurants where the air circulation and filtration is better. The safest thing is open air dining with portable heaters. Otherwise, have a tent with just a roof if you must. But this is beyond stupid.
ReplyDeleteThose tents remind me of the sweating tents of the 1960s for kids with the croup
ReplyDeleteThey made you sweat toxins out
How is this better than indoors
And what’s with Merry Bethesda
It’s Merry CHRISTMAS
Gheesh
We were finally able to say Christmas under the President
Now we are supposedly back to the commie obols atheists
Ps Biden Cheated Bigly COUP
Have you ever worn a PVC raincoat in summer and you are swearing like a pig in 5 minutes
ReplyDeleteThat’s what those assanine tents remind me of
No circulation sweating hot boxes just the thing fir spreading an airborne disease
With the new drugs people recover in 5 days with virus if they have any symptoms at all
Total overreaction to a virus
Fauci is the Rasputin of our Times
Eat in a tent, end up in an oxygen tent.
ReplyDeleteProbably time to shut the Streetery until spring.
6:39 PM - You are free to leave the county/country at any time, until then get over yourself and the fact the your miserable idol, the currently designated president, lost this contest BIGGLY! BTW, the use of the phrase Merry Bethesda seems to be the BUD's play on words, not an edict from das fuhrer.
ReplyDeletewalls and a roof = indoors
ReplyDelete"Fauci is the Rasputin of our Times"
ReplyDeleteTom Nichols wrote a book about this kind of silliness. The book is titled "The Death of Expertise".
@7:56 AM: Look, I get it, you idolize VP Biden and a return to the Obama sycophantic era with a Press that simply repeats everything straight from the state without questioning it. In fact, you'd prefer not to have to deal with having elections against Republicans. It would be easier that way. Why even run on ideas or campaign against them when you can simply cheat or rig it? I've got you all figured out... and it's so boring. You can't even say President Trump. How sad.
ReplyDeleteThat's President-Elect Biden. To see a real sycophant, just look in the mirror.
ReplyDelete@5:51 PM: The media doesn't decide elections, and neither do you. VP Biden is not "President-Elect" until the Electoral College votes. You either knew that or you didn't.
ReplyDeleteIn denial, I see.
ReplyDeleteThe County Council wants to give businesses money for even more tents even though the health department says dine-in eating is a leading source of spread. How is this a good idea?
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