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QR codes for restaurant menus: threat or menace?
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TheAmmoniacal:
I also don't have a data plan on my phone, because I don't want yet another $20/month subscription to care about for something I might want to use every few months. I have a prepaid SIM that I top up with about $15 once a year, that's how much I use my phone (for phone stuff).

 


G7PSK:
I have a payg data sim in my phone but the last thing I want to be doing in a restraunt is playing with my phone and qr codes if they cannot have a printed menue I am out of there and will be going elsewhere. I turn my phone off in such places so as not get disturbed or disturb others.
TimFox:
I agree.  The only time I have been presented with the QR code as mandatory (instead of voluntary), I was prepared to leave if the waiter couldn't find me a printed menu.  This was out of town, when I was traveling often for family reasons, and the restaurant had adopted this new policy during roughly 10 days since my previous visit there.
Someone pointed out that menus are an unlikely source of contagion:  I think this is true.  At the beginning of the plague, when little was known about it, it was thought that it was transmitted like other known diseases and there was an emphasis on surfaces.  Later, after actual research, the airborne droplet route became the preferred theory.  (Theory is not guesswork.)
Zero999:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 28, 2021, 03:38:36 pm ---I agree.  The only time I have been presented with the QR code as mandatory (instead of voluntary), I was prepared to leave if the waiter couldn't find me a printed menu.  This was out of town, when I was traveling often for family reasons, and the restaurant had adopted this new policy during roughly 10 days since my previous visit there.
Someone pointed out that menus are an unlikely source of contagion:  I think this is true.  At the beginning of the plague, when little was known about it, it was thought that it was transmitted like other known diseases and there was an emphasis on surfaces.  Later, after actual research, the airborne droplet route became the preferred theory.  (Theory is not guesswork.)

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I volunteer at Riding for the Disabled and there's still a lot of emphasis on cleaning things. It's funny how some people haven't moved with the science.

I remember when it first started, lots of people wore gloves in the supermarket, which I always thought was silly. Masks were also not recommended, for some reason. Then the government made a U-turn mandating masks, which some people disagreed with, but plenty of people still wear masks, even though they're no longer legally required.
TimFox:
Early on, there was emphasis on how long the virus could stay viable on different surfaces, and there are other pathogens where surface transmission is important, so cleanliness in a medical or food facility is still important.
With more research, emphasis changed to ventilation and masking to reduce airborne transmission by droplets and aerosols.
Before the plague, I often attended a Shakesperean theater in Chicago with a thrust stage and strong stage lighting.  When an actor delivered a strong speech (with those powerful Shakesperean insults), the saliva droplets flying meters away from his mouth were clearly visible in the lights.  The theaters in Chicago intend to open sort-of normally again around October--I hope that the current surge of cases amongst the unvaccinated can be arrested.
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