COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Brennan77 said
Context is everything. The government is requiring that you give your personal information to eat at a restaurant. The government is requiring that a private place of business obtain this information and retain it in order to provide it to the government. I've never eaten out under those conditions, to my knowledge. And I won't eat at a restaurant under those conditions.

We will have a new baby some time this week or next so I don't know if I will eat out any time soon anyway. But if it were to be in Orleans, I'd use a pseudonym and pay cash.

This is quite simply going too far. I can see making a request that people participate in such a practice. But to make it into a requirement, even if unenforceable? That's just wrong.

It's no different for me, pretty much every meal I eat the IRS can request a receipt for it. That and there are literally hundreds of companies that can tell you what you like to eat, when you like to eat, what days you like to eat, whether you prefer to eat before or after you masterbate, what kind of porn you like to watch, how much money you make, how much you spend, how much you save, your credit score, credit history, who your relatives and friends are and everywhere you've been the last 5 years and you probably have at least 3 devices in your house that you paid for to support this practice. I mean, I appreciate that people are suddenly worried about privacy but find it quite odd that writing your name on a piece of paper during a pandemic is where so many are drawing the line.