Restaurants in Washington, DC are allowed to be open for indoor dining with strict guidelines, but outdoor dining is encouraged instead. But as the weather begins to get colder, eating and drinking outside gets less desirable for obvious reasons. So how can the DC mayor keep people dining outdoors? By turning the outdoors into the indoors, or something:
#RAMMYS20: We just announced an investment of $4 million to help small businesses winterize outdoor dining areas and maintain outdoor dining operations in the District through the Streatery Winter Ready Grant Program.
Learn more: https://t.co/rcMblZao1m pic.twitter.com/gR7R4BzhtL
— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) September 20, 2020
She’s got to be kidding.
Recreating the indoors outdoors to avoid re-opening the actual indoors is… something else.
An outdoor dining area that's covered by a tent is inside. https://t.co/FhhUEGmzOY
— Möntägue J Peppercörn (@Bob_Janke) September 21, 2020
Brilliant! Investing $4 million to turn outdoor dining into indoor dining. And Democrats considered making her VP & making D.C the 51st State. https://t.co/RzAUSdvpOw
— TheRightWingM ?? (@TheRightWingM) September 21, 2020
They're spending $4 million to enclose and heat outdoor areas.
Instead of…going inside. https://t.co/HlNfPO7RCC
— Jason Heard (@jheard15) September 21, 2020
It’s the most “government” thing ever.
Or, you could stop being a draconian tyrant and open the restaurants. Sweet baby Jeebus this is dumb.
— The?FOO (@PolitiBunny) September 21, 2020
Aren't tents a structure? Therefore, indoors? Gonna have to put a tent outside the tent. Oh, damn stuck in a loop. Reboot the Matrix.
— E_something, something (@bearcats03) September 21, 2020
Ummm. I could be wrong here, but is creating an indoor tent basically letting people dine indoors? I mean, it's the same concept, right?
But SCIENCE! I guess. https://t.co/jy71LlfBGX
— Fredman (@Fred_Butler) September 21, 2020
Wasting tax payer money to replicate indoor dining because science….
— Robert ?? (@RRangel4JC) September 21, 2020
Heating them with what? Most likely some form of fossil fuel. Wouldn’t this add to the climate change?
Maybe, just maybe, it would make a whole lot more sense to just open the restaurants like normal.
— God, Family, Country (@FlyoverCountryR) September 21, 2020
“Making sense” doesn’t seem to be a high priority of many government officials these days.
