Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Our politicians transformed NYC into a meme." video.

  1. Technically, I won't judge aesthetically, those seem like good ideas but not because of the indoor/outdoor discussion... more about the isolation between tables. So, what you get is really an indoors situation, but where each table is isolated from each other. The only real thing you avoid there is contamination between groups... like that often used animation scenario where someone infected with Covid on a table spreads out the virus because of how ventilation, AC or whatever circulates the air in the room. It wouldn't be that much different to just isolate tables from each other inside the restaurant, but I imagine tents or provisory outdoor rooms are just more cost effective. Because if it's inside a building, ventilation is complicated. The isolation is not only about walls, it's about the air that circulates inside it. Inside you'd still have to contend with corridors, shared spaces, individual ventilation for each room/table... Think of it like the cruise ship scenario. You have a bunch of individual apartments, you can lock everyone inside them, but because of how ventilation system works in the ship, everyone ends up sick because they are breathing the same air that is being shared and recirculated inside all rooms. Afaik, in the US there is a high adherence to central AC and whatnot. Which means the air inside business and commerce estabilishments is shared... no real separation between rooms. For individual tents and rooms built on the outside, those can have air exchanged directly with the outside individually. You could even control position of venting and where the air is coming from to avoid worst type scenarios - like taking air from high up where contaminated droplets are less likely to be, and discharging air from inside down, so that droplets don't stay suspended in the air. And if you are really fancy, use filters.... a mask for the room. xD As for surface contamination, this doesn't change all that much... considering what we think we know so far on how droplets spread out and how long the virus survives in cold surfaces, after guests use either the tent or room, it'd droplets would go down on tables and floor given enough time. Open up the room, wipe up table, chairs an floor, and you're mostly done. They could get pretty creative with it too since it's outside... like adding extra ventilation, filters, using those fog style cleaning machines and whatnot to speed up the process. Given how there probably just aren't that many costumers willing to go through the experience, rotating rooms is probably enough. With enough time, potentially contaminated droplets would just settle down. But even still, if the air inside those tents and individual cabins stays contaminated for a while... you are limiting it to next costumers, and still avoiding the spread to all other individual cocoons. xD Cold analysis. I mean, it looks and sound kinda ridiculous... but you know, desperate times. I think businesses that are creative about fighting the disease are ultimately the ones that will survive.... even if by the end of the next year this thing will be gone, something tells me this isn't gonna be the last time most of us will see a pandemic like this one... this shit is gonna keep coming, and those with experience in creative strategies to combat it now will have better chances in subsequent times. Is it even worth going this extra length to attract costumers on freezing nights? Well... that's for the restaurants to see. But my guess is, there are so many people so desperate to have some semblance of normal life back, that they are willing to concede to almost anything. And with the prospect that lots of people having to deal with the pandemic restrictions and whatnot for at least a few more months... you start budgetting up costs, patience, risks and whatnot. So like, we'll dine inside a plastic tent now just to do something different, it should stave off boredom a bit and stretch our patience for a few more months until we're vaccinated... and we help the restaurant to still be there when things gets better.
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