A Maumee bar’s so­cial-me­dia post­ing wel­com­ing cus­tom­ers back stirred up on­line con­tro­versy Fri­day be­cause its pic­tures showed em­ploy­ees clus­tered around the cam­era, not wear­ing face masks.

But Melissa Hens­ley, the gen­eral man­ager at Dale’s Bar & Grill, said late Fri­day morn­ing she had used pre-pan­demic pho­tos from her phone to il­lus­trate the post she made, not think­ing that view­ers would mis­takenly see them as cur­rent.

Re­sponses to the post pro­vide some in­sight into the types of pit­falls that busi­nesses are cur­rently nav­i­gat­ing as they re­open dur­ing the cor­o­navi­rus pan­demic.

“We are busy pre­par­ing for all of you, see you all to­mor­row!” read the mes­sage posted shortly af­ter 9 p.m. Thurs­day, ac­com­pa­nied by pho­tos of 13 and 7 peo­ple, re­spec­tively, in very close quar­ters.

The post at­tracted many mes­sages of sup­port, but also sev­eral con­demn­ing the be­hav­ior they said demon­strated care­less­ness.

“Wow. This is why I’m not go­ing out,” a Face­book poster re­sponded. “This is where my fi­ance and I had our first date. This place has been very spe­cial to us. But see­ing you guys throw cau­tion to the wind amidst a pan­demic, I know where I won’t be go­ing.”

“We have sup­ported Dale’s for 50 years and we were look­ing for­ward to com­ing back,” wrote an­other user, who later de­leted the post. “This scares the liv­ing crap out of me! You

won’t see us for awhile.”

Ms. Hens­ley said she had nu­mer­ous sim­i­lar pho­tos on her phone of bar staff, and “it was just taken the wrong way” when she chose a cou­ple to il­lus­trate the Face­book post. But she said she chose not to en­gage in a dis­cus­sion about it on the thread be­cause she doubted do­ing so would change any minds.

Any­one vis­it­ing Dale’s on Fri­day would see proper pre­cau­tions be­ing taken, the gen­eral man­ager said.

“All of our staff have masks on, the ta­bles are spread apart, and we’re keep­ing the pa­trons spread apart,” she said. “We’re a small es­tab­lish­ment, so as for em­ploy­ees, it’s near im­pos­sible to keep them sep­a­rated all the time.”

Thurs­day, but so­cial dis­tanc­ing guide­lines they must have in place will leave them with an es­ti­mated 25 per­cent din­ing ca­pac­ity.

Port Clin­ton has closed Madi­son Street to ve­hi­cle traf­fic in­def­i­nitely and placed a dozen ta­bles about 15 feet apart, in­vit­ing peo­ple to or­der car­ry­out from the area’s 16 restau­rants and take a seat with those who have been in their “quar­an­tine cir­cle.” At the same time, they sus­pended the rules for plac­ing pa­tio fur­ni­ture out­side city restau­rants on side­walks and re-en­acted MORA, Main Street Out­door Re­fresh­ment Area, down­town Port Clin­ton’s out­door drink­ing dis­trict that was im­ple­mented late last year.

“The first hour has been in-

Like their coun­ter­parts at other area schools, the un­com­mon­ness of their sit­u­a­tion was not lost on speak­ers whose video re­marks went on­line Fri­day af­ter­noon as the Univer­sity of Toledo’s Col­lege of Med­i­cine and Life Sciences grad­u­ated its Class of 2020.

“It may not be the cel­e­bra­tion you en­vi­sioned, but you will never for­get your com­mence­ment,” Ran­dall Worth, the col­lege’s as­so­ci­ate dean for stu­dent af­fairs and ad­mis­sion, said in brief wel­com­ing speech that was part of about an hour’s worth of ad­dresses UT posted in honor of the 209-mem­ber class.

Mr. Worth in­tro­duced an­other theme that oth­ers dur­ing the vir­tual cer­e­mony also vis­ited: “You will learn more af­ter leav­ing ... than you learned while you were here.”

Grad­u­a­tion “is a way­side stop on a long jour­ney,” S. Am­jad Hus­sain, a clin­i­cal fac­ulty mem­ber in the Depart­ment of Surgery and pro­lific writer who has been a Blade col­um­nist since 1994, said dur­ing his fea­tured com­mence­ment speech.

Dr. Hus­sain said he had “learned the most on the job,” not in med­i­cal school or res­i­dency, be­fore urg­ing the newly minted doc­tors and med­i­cal sci­en­tists to “prac­tice med­i­cine with em­pa­thy” and “re­sist pedes­tals” upon which ei­ther pa­tients or so­ci­ety in gen­eral might place them.

“Climb down and stay grounded,” he said, and re­mem­ber that “statis­tics about health care are pa­tients with the tears stripped away.”

The col­lege con­ferred 167 Doc­tor of Med­i­cine de­grees, 73 Master of Science de­grees, and five Doc­tor of Philos­o­phy de­grees.

“Now more than ever, they are well pre­pared for a world des­per­ately in need of com­pas­sion­ate, tal­ented, hard-work­ing, and pre­pared adults who will dis­cover solu­tions to the world’s needs through re­search, who will ed­u­cate oth­ers, and who will pro­vide care for all peo­ple,” Dr. Chris­to­pher Cooper, the dean of the for­mer Med­i­cal Col­lege of Ohio, said dur­ing his in­tro­duc­tory re­marks.

“This jour­ney has been

very hum­bling,” said Gayatri Subra­ma­nian, a Mum­bai, In­dia na­tive who did her PhD work study­ing the TDRD7 “su­per pro­tein” that com­bats two groups of vi­ruses, one of which causes re­spi­ra­tory ill­ness and the other her­pes sim­plex.

Ms. Subra­ma­nian said the les­sons she learned about time man­age­ment, peo­ple man­age­ment, chan­nel­ing stress, and re­sil­ience will be “very ap­pli­ca­ble to any and ev­ery other life sit­u­a­tion” she en­coun­ters as her ca­reer and learn­ing ad­vance.

Speak­ing for the med­i­cal stu­dents, Jon­a­than Cle­ment Hen­ricks struck a poi­gnant note dur­ing his trib­ute to the

pa­tients to whom he and class­mates gave care while learn­ing their craft.

“Our pa­tients’ pa­tience and kind­ness put a face to the dis­eases that we learned about in books,” he said. “For some, the best we could do was en­sure their dig­nity and com­fort dur­ing their last mo­ments of life on Earth.”

But while also not­ing the dis­rup­tion that the cor­o­navi­rus pan­demic has caused, Dr. Hen­ricks said it was not en­tirely neg­a­tive.

“It has granted us one thing that we ha­ven’t had in a while: time. It’s given us time to re­flect on what is im­por­tant in our lives, time to re­dis­cover things that bring us joy — the lit­tle things like con­nect­ing with fam­ily and friends, read­ing for plea­sure, or go­ing on a run,” he said. “Despite be­ing iso­lated from each other phys­i­cally, we have found new ways to con­nect and to sup­port one an­other through­out this crit­i­cal time. Per­haps now we are more fo­cused on the con­cepts of well-be­ing and men­tal health than ever be­fore, and that’s a re­ally good thing.”

— David Patch

DETROIT — HA-In­ter­na­tional L.L.C., a busi­ness with a fa­cil­ity in South Toledo, has agreed to set­tle a dis­pute with fed­eral au­thor­i­ties re­lated to a chem­i­cal com­po­nent used to make il­le­gal drugs.

HA-In­ter­na­tional, head­quar­tered in West­mont, Ill., sells res­ins, resin-coated sands,

said in a news re­lease.

The U.S. At­tor­ney’s Of­fice for the North­ern Dis­trict of Ohio con­tends HA-In­ter­na­tional failed to com­ply with re­port­ing pro­vi­sions rel­a­tive to man­u­fac­ture, dis­tri­bu­tion, and ex­port of ALpHACURE103, a chem­i-

cal mix­ture con­sist­ing of 70 per­cent or more of the con­trolled sub­stance gamma-bu­ty­ro­lactone, from July 29, 2010, to July 4, 2013, the re­lease said.

GBL is cat­e­go­rized as a List I Chem­i­cal, which means it has le­git­i­mate uses. But it can also