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Waiters have been going down like flies in a hurricane here, since restaurants reopened in May.  So have the staff at the back of the house.  My sister is a server and probably 50% of her friends in the industry have caught it.  She stopped working because she was afraid of catching it.

It's not getting a lot of airtime, because those people tend to be younger and aren't ending up in the hospitals and ICUs.  They catch it, and are either asymptomatic and wait it out, or have mild symptoms and wait it out.  Either way, they're back at work after two weeks.  This has slowed down somewhat in recent months, but I think it's mainly because that population is effectively reaching herd immunity.

Now, I don't want to be all "blame the victim" here, but waiters and general restaurant staff are not exactly the most low-risk-tolerance population. If you talk to a lot of those folks there's a lot of late nights, a lot of booze [and other drugs], and generally an "us against the world" sort of fraternity that comes from their messed up hours and working conditions.

On top of it, waiters are kinda in the worst boat. The mask mostly protects other from you, rather than you from others. What happens as soon as someone sits down at a restaurant table? The mask comes off. So the patrons are mostly protected from the wait staff, while the wait staff aren't protected from the patrons. In many other situations (hair salon, nails, most healthcare interactions) the mask wearing is symmetrical. In the case of restaurants, it is not. (Personally I do my best to sorta cover my mouth and turn my head and not speak directly into the face of a server on those few occasions we've gone out.)

My oldest daughter just got put on quarantine due to contact at school, and the school is reducing from full time to part time.

I did get H1N1.   Worst feelings of my life, felt paralyzed, had no strength.  Lost 20lbs. 

people all over the world are suffering from this virus

I'm starting to think that even if China and the Who did everything they could to warn the rest of the world, it would still take it's toll.  very similar to what has happened to this point.

politicians, policies, masks, aren't capable of stopping this virus

The original plan was to spread it out over time so hospitals would not get overrun.  That morphed somehow into preventing it, which is not possible.

The US has done reportedly more tests per capita than just about anybody, and still it's not enough.  The northeast still has the most overall deaths per capita followed by LA. 

I have some criticism of how the US handled this early on, but that same criticism applies as well to places like Italy, France, Spain, the UK etc.

I would call it suggestions for next time instead of criticism

If youre facing something never experienced before youre gonna make mistakes

we need to learn from these mistakes

Yeah, our waiter at Atmosphere has a very pregnant wife.  We mask up any time a server comes by.

One place here the servers will not approach unless you are masked.  If you mask up, they see it as a signal you need something.

I'm so used to wearing a mask I hardly notice unless my glasses fog up.

The US has done reportedly more tests per capita than just about anybody, and still it's not enough.  The northeast still has the most overall deaths per capita followed by LA.  .

Amongst populous countries, the UAE, Bahrain, Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel and the UK have higher tests/1M rates than the USA.