THE relaxation of social distancing rules in the USA has enabled some restaurants to reopen - but they're not allowed to be full.
An eatery in South Carolina partly reopened this week, and to ensure it complies with reduced capacity requirements, the owner is filling empty seats with blow-up dolls.
"Instead of using scary yellow tape or roping off the empty tables I thought 'we're going to make this restaurant look full," said owner Paula Starr Melehes.
She said she ordered the "G-rated kind" of inflatable dolls online, dressed them up like customers (pictured) and seated them at off-limit tables.
A local news report depicts some merry locals enjoying the lockdown relief, with one man saying "they tried to kick me out after I kissed one of them" - pharmacydaily.com.au/videos.
Could a higher male death rate from coronavirus be related to trying to look cool?
A new scientific paper from Middlesex University London and the Mathematical Science Research Institute in Berkeley, California, has found US men are much less likely to wear face masks because they are "not cool" and "a sign of weakness".
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