Some people really deserve a penalty ticket
@nela13 (55698)
Portugal
April 10, 2021 5:18pm CST
This week the government decided that restaurants, pastry and coffee shops can open their terraces and street tables and have clients there. The rules are clear, one can only take off the mask to drink or eat, if you want to talk with the person that are with you the mask should be on. But people just don't care and spend hours sitted talking without the mask.
Yesterday the police gave a penalty ticket to a lot of people that were in restaurants and coffees terraces as they weren't following the rules. And the ticket was a heavy one, 200€.
Some people only learn if it mess with their pockets. How could they be so irresponsible?! 
some really deserved the ticket.
I have no plans to go to restaurants or any pastry or coffee shops so soon. I still find it dangerous as the virus is still very active.
Is this happening in your country too?
some really deserved the ticket.
I have no plans to go to restaurants or any pastry or coffee shops so soon. I still find it dangerous as the virus is still very active.
Is this happening in your country too?18 people like this
20 responses
@kaylachan (57596)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Apr 21
You can't force someone to wear a mask. If they chose to, that's their decision. Doesn't matter what country you're from. People have a right to decide what happens to their bodies. Masks don't do what your govornment is trying to tell you it does. Because virusus don't pick and chose what particals they hitch a ride on. And, you know what? the most dangerous particals go right through masks.
The whole point to going to a restaurant, is to have conversation while eating. In fact, if you're pulling up a mask between bites of food, all you're doing is dirtying up a mask and opening yourself to a whole load of health risks.
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@RebeccasFarm (86732)
• United States
10 Apr 21
Yes people do as they please mostly and here they are lifting the mask mandate
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@RebeccasFarm (86732)
• United States
11 Apr 21
@nela13 So they say, yet people are still dying
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
12 Apr 21
@RebeccasFarm yes, it seems that what they say and the reality are 2 different things.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
11 Apr 21
The restaurants and coffee shops observe social distancing here. One square foot of table, one person. For larger tables then two people is allowed but there’s a a barricade in between, a clear sheet. So if they wish to talk, they could but no danger of exchanging of fluids when having a conversation due the clear sheet separating them.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
12 Apr 21
@nela13 Masks are mandatory here too. You can’t enter a restaurant or go to any public place without a mask.
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
12 Apr 21
@toniganzon exactly the same here but we don't have the clear sheet in the tables which is sad.
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
12 Apr 21
Yes, it is, it isn't time to relax in the measures against Covid.
@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
14 Apr 21
It's happening that many won't wear are masks or they remove them while they're shopping. I've not gone to restaurants yet so I don't know about that.
Also I think a large group that's gotten their two shots seem to think they are now invincible. There aren't enough police here too monitor all those not wearing masks.
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Apr 21
@nela13 Even with the shots no one is 100% immune from still getting covid-19. They are just possibly immune from dying from it. Plus it's possible that they can be carriers if they're around someone that has it before they know it.
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
16 Apr 21
@MarshaMusselman yes, what you wrote is true but unfortunately many people don't know that.
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@birjudanak (14319)
• India
11 Apr 21
It's very common here that people love to go out and hang on for unnecessary thing and yes its good to give a penalty to them who not follow rules but here little different way as its the best business to make money to give a penalty for those who even follow rules.
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@birjudanak (14319)
• India
13 Apr 21
@nela13 Yes sometimes because they are waiting to look mistakes and they got a target to collect money in a day.
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@Robinhuut (457)
• Bogor, Indonesia
14 Apr 21
I think we should all be aware of the fact that we are not yet out of the trap of the Covid-19 pandemic
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@Robinhuut (457)
• Bogor, Indonesia
15 Apr 21
@nela13 There may be many factors that inhibit vaccination
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@Gracelipstick (782)
• Kingston, Jamaica
14 Apr 21
Yes it is. It teaches them a lesson
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
11 Apr 21
Most of the time people need to be penalized before they would learn a lesson.
We don't have dine in here. All dine outs/take outs.
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
12 Apr 21
Yes, some people only learn when it messes with their pockets. Their brain is too stupid to understand things other way. 
@TheHorse (205618)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Apr 21
Interesting that the police actually gave tickets. I think that outside diners are somewhat "cavalier" here in California when they dine at restaurants outside. I am "lax" at lunch when I dine with kids at the schools where I work. But I am still only "ordering out" when it comes to restaurants.
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
10 Apr 21
My husband is a teacher and he also has lunch at school with the kids.
We haven't ordered out food since the beginning of the pandemic.
@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
11 Apr 21
Our government is too strict in implementing the observance of health protocols but no penalty imposed just reminding the violators to put on their mask and faceshield.
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@ExplorewtMe (6333)
• Nairobi, Kenya
10 Apr 21
That is so annoying, I herd people saying that they are wearing mask to avoid penalty.
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
10 Apr 21
Some people wear the mask just to avoid the penalty not the virus. How stupid!
