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In the United States, despite the health crisis, the owner of a restaurant continues to cook and open the doors of her establishment only to accommodate an elderly couple, whose wife suffers from dementia.
In the United States, Louisiana is a major center of the coronavirus epidemic and the city is badly hit by the virus. The State of New Orleans decreed confinement as early as March 20. Melissa Dykes runs a small restaurant there. Like many other establishments in the United States, it no longer welcomes customers inside and only offers take-out food. Despite the risks, the American decided to make an exception.
They have frequented the restaurant every day for two years
The restaurateur is now opening its doors for the sole purpose of welcoming a single couple, Bill and Ruth Jordan. For the past two years, they have come to eat at this restaurant every day. Bill can’t cook and for his wife, who has dementia, going out to eat at Melissa’s is important.
“This is what my heart needed to do”
“It is important to Ruth that we do the same things or she is lost,” Bill told American media. It was also important to Mélissa to continue to serve this couple and not to break their daily routine. “This is what my heart needed to do,” she says. In addition, by doing so, it complies with current state directives which still allow gatherings of fewer than ten people.
Why an La. Restaurant owner lets one couple dine in during coronavirus shutdown https://t.co/5jyYu6J53q
– WAFB (@WAFB) April 1, 2020
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