Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lJ0hyWFJ0RE   All of us are getting cabin fever, and we want to get out and eat out.  You say, “I’m vaccinated so I can just eat at restaurants as I did before the pandemic.”  Do so at your own peril. Even the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are at best 95% effective, the J&J fax is about 70%, and all work less well against variants. There’s a 50:50 chance you could get infected with a virus that might not kill you but could eat away your heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.   Forget about indoor eating.  It isn’t safe even with distancing and barriers!  The air ventilation and filtration is simply not good enough.   Eat outdoors in a ventilated, distanced enclosure preferably an individual hut or igloo.  A completely enclosed outdoor structure is no safer than indoors.    Only eat in groups of 4 or fewer with other vaccinated people or those in your immediate bubble.  Keep your mask on when you aren’t eating and when interacting with servers.  Have hand sanitizer with you to use aft