WATCH: Restaurant Owners Fume at Ruinous COVID Restrictions

Restaurants have moved heaven and earth to accommodate previous rules severely limiting or barring indoor dining, spending precious and dwindling resources to enable outdoor seating as a crucial source of revenue. It’s about survival, as bars and restaurants are dropping like flies under onerous government-imposed limitations. Now politicians are citing non-existent or dubious “science” to puncture those remaining life rafts, including politicians who say one thing and then do another. It’s anti-empiricism, punitive, and infuriating. And that’s just from the perspective of a consumer. It’s devastating to the people whose livelihoods are being regulated into oblivion, and some of them are speaking out. Watch this righteous monologue from a prominent Southern California chef and restauranteur (content warning for language):

I appreciate that Gruel addressed the garbage ‘if you disagree with any single COVID restriction, you want to kill people’ attacks launched by tribalistic, preening devotees of “science” worship. Public policy is about trade-offs, and ignoring the profound and acute negative ramifications of various restrictions is actually a form of science denialism dressed up as studied enlightenment.

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