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Feb. 24th, 2023 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[cw: food, illness]
I ate a meal at a restaurant yesterday for the first time this decade.
I specify "meal" because I've been eating granola bars in restaurant airspaces (mostly work, but also earlier this week at [a restaurant next to a bus stop] where I was staying warm while I waited) for about a year and a half: undo respirator neck strap, inhale, lift up respirator, stick granola bar through gap, take bite, lower respirator, exhale, chew (while holding the respirator in place with the other hand). It turns out that this method adapts pretty well to sticking in bites of food with a fork. I think sauce might have gotten tricky, though, so I didn't order the macaroni and cheese.
I also got a glass of cranberry juice and drank it through a straw with the same method.
Extrapolating from the level of sore throat I got while drinking a smoothie outside this way a few months ago, I'd estimate that while it was more dangerous *per unit of time*, the overall exposure of spending ~half an hour eating and drinking through a P100 was probably in the same ballpark as four hours chatting in a KF94, which is something I do with roughly this same group of people every week. Other than our eight-person table the restaurant was much less crowded than I'd expected, which was very nice.
I ate a meal at a restaurant yesterday for the first time this decade.
I specify "meal" because I've been eating granola bars in restaurant airspaces (mostly work, but also earlier this week at [a restaurant next to a bus stop] where I was staying warm while I waited) for about a year and a half: undo respirator neck strap, inhale, lift up respirator, stick granola bar through gap, take bite, lower respirator, exhale, chew (while holding the respirator in place with the other hand). It turns out that this method adapts pretty well to sticking in bites of food with a fork. I think sauce might have gotten tricky, though, so I didn't order the macaroni and cheese.
I also got a glass of cranberry juice and drank it through a straw with the same method.
Extrapolating from the level of sore throat I got while drinking a smoothie outside this way a few months ago, I'd estimate that while it was more dangerous *per unit of time*, the overall exposure of spending ~half an hour eating and drinking through a P100 was probably in the same ballpark as four hours chatting in a KF94, which is something I do with roughly this same group of people every week. Other than our eight-person table the restaurant was much less crowded than I'd expected, which was very nice.
