THREAD: WSJ editorial page, citing NY contract tracing data, says restaurants and bars account for only 1.4% of virus cases. I doubt NY has enough data to make that conclusion so precisely, but let's assume it is right, and it applies nationally. 1/ wsj.com/articles/the-r… 
As of right now per Worldometers, US has apprx 16.7 million cases and 306k deaths. If 1.4% of those cases were acquired in restaurants and bars, it is 233,875 cases. 2/
That death total means case fatality rate is 1.83% ( and likely higher since deaths lag cases, but go with it). So the restaurant & bar-acquired cases led to 4,280 deaths. 3/
That's not a minor thing. It's many more people than died on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor, and it's still growing. If WSJ Editorial Board thinks it is an acceptable loss, they should say so openly instead of using numbers to minimize intense pain in thousands of families. 4/4
P.S. Those home-gathering cases happen because someone was present who caught the virus somewhere outside the home, quite possibly in a restaurant or bar. It doesn't just float in your window.
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