Diary - My father has recovered from the covid recently.

[Maybo]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

My father has recovered from the covid recently. Fortunately, his symptoms were not serious. Before getting infected, he didn’t believe hundreds of thousands people also got infected. He was free from the covid in the past three years because we asked him not to dine in during the peak of every wave. Now, I think he has changed his mind.

 

[Tarheel]

He didn't believe that hundreds of thousands had also gotten infected.

Did you ask him not to dine in but to eat out instead?

 

[emsr2d2]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

My father has recently recovered from the Covid-19. recently. Fortunately, his symptoms were not serious. Before getting infected, he didn’t believe hundreds of thousands of people had also got/been infected. He was free from the had avoided [catching] Covid-19 in for the past three years because we asked him not to dine in eat out [eat in public places] during the peak of every wave. Now no comma I think he has changed his mind.

 

[Maybo]

He didn't believe that hundreds of thousands had also gotten infected.

Did you ask him not to dine in but to eat out instead?

I asked him to buy takeaways or eat at home.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

He didn't believe that hundreds of thousands had gotten infected. Then he got infected himself.

(I didn't use "had" in my previous post. I don't know how it got there.)

 

[Tarheel]

I asked him to buy takeaways or eat at home.

The original says something more like the opposite. If you asked him not to dine in you must have wanted him to eat out.

 

[emsr2d2]

"Dine in" would make sense only if you were referring to a restaurant and trying to differentiate between eating inside the restaurant (dining in) and getting a takeaway (getting takeout in AmE). However, that's not the context in your piece. You're differentiating between eating inside his own home (dining in) and eating somewhere else (dining out).

 

[Maybo]

What should I say if I asked him not to eat inside the restaurant?

 

[Tarheel]

What should I say if I asked him not to eat inside the restaurant?

Exactly that! Or you could tell him to get delivery or takeout instead of eating at the restaurant.

 

[Maybo]

I think I misunderstood something. I used to think that “eat out” means “not eating at home” and “eat at a restaurant (We can eat inside a restaurant or an open-air restaurant)”.
For example: I don’t want to cook today. Let’s eat out.

 

[Tarheel]

@Maybo That's what it does mean. When you eat out you go out and eat at someplace other than your house or apartment. That would usually be a restaurant.

 

[Tarheel]

For example: I don’t want to cook today. Let’s eat out.

That's perfect.

 

[Tarheel]

There was a place near me that only had takeout during the pandemic.(Things are back to normal now.)