A big shout out to those who will be starting and solidifying the next wave of the pandemic.

“Many B.C. restaurants and retailers already struggling to recover from the pandemic are now imploring the public to be patient with staff and respect the rules — after reports of customers behaving badly in response to COVID-19 safety protocols.

From verbal attacks to physical assaults, the backlash directed against employees is forcing some business owners to take extreme measures.

“It’s a death by a thousand cuts, it’s day after day,” restaurant owner Robert Stodola told Global News.

“This is stressful for every single person.”

Our society, to avoid the tailspin that the US is currently in, needs to adapt to a new normal.  The status quo is changing and the old expectations of ‘how things work’ must be discarded.

“Things literally reached a “breaking point” inside another restaurant in the Southern Interior city earlier this month, when one of the owners attempted to enforce a health order on a tour group that kept pushing their tables together.

“They threw their plate of food on the ground and actually assaulted the restaurateur,” said Pangilinan.

“That is completely unacceptable.”

Kamloops RCMP are investigating the July 4 incident at Mittz Kitchen, in which an owner was allegedly pushed over a table.”

Imagine that.  Thinking that you know better than the health authorities and the owner of the restaurant about how to behave within their private premise.  The people responsible for assaulting the owner and putting other people at risk should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Given the evidence available, it is possible to not have society in complete lockdown for the remainder of the pandemic.  What it does require though is people to alter their expectations and adopt new behaviours that won’t cause a further spread of the virus.

See you all in the Xmas Lockdown.  :(

 

Source: globalnews.ca