How You Can Help Pittsburgh Restaurants
Seven ways to help Pittsburgh’s restaurants and people who work in them make it through the winter.
December 16, 2020
PHOTOS BY HAL B. KLEIN
Gov. Tom Wolf’s Dec. 10 order to prohibit indoor dining in restaurants until Jan. 4 was the right call. Although restaurants aren’t typically the nexus of super-spreader events, and most operators are trying to do their best to keep spaces as safe as possible, serious studies in the United States and South Korea have placed dining inside restaurants as one of the primary vectors for person-to-person spreading of coronavirus.
That’s because the virus spreads through respiratory inhalation, and indoor spaces typically don’t have an adequate airflow exchange to mitigate a build-up of viral load. Eating and drinking are by nature maskless activities and most people use restaurants as social spaces in which they want to linger. This is why, unlike a 15-minute masked visit to a grocery store, the