How the Correlation Between Restaurants and Covid 19 Applies to Sales Assessments

Do you hate meetings as much as I do?
They’re the worst.  But I have one weekly meeting that’a always uplifting and productive.
I’m talking about my weekly meeting with John Pattison, COO of Objective Management Group (OMG). He happened to mention a report released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) pointing to the correlation between people who recently dined at a restaurant and later tested positive for Covid-19.  Of course the media was doing its best to spread misinformation as the article titles below suggest:
The report actually included facts they didn’t share in their titles, like:
It was not known whether they dined inside or outside
It did not say that they contracted Covid-19 at the restaurant or because they ate at a restaurant
John pointed out that this is a clear case of correlation, but not causation.  In other words,