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Post by thyme4change on May 12, 2020 19:29:45 GMT -5
Except I’m not ordering takeout from anyone whose dining room is open, at least not first wave. More exposure. More likely to have sick staff... If they’re doing takeout business, aren’t they just as likely to interact with sick people? No Going to a restaurant, opening the door, going inside, walking across the restaurant, sitting down, touching the table, staying and mouth breathing for a full hour, touching a glass, a plate, silverware (which gets your spit on it), the little bookish thing they put the bill in, the pen, all of which will be touched by an employee, then you walk out (more breathing), touching the door or maybe the railing or whatever. Vs. Most of the restaurants around here have set a table blocking the entrance and you never even enter the place. If you order and pay online, you only touch your food while there. You can call in an order, or stand near the door and order and then you are asked to wait away from people. Some restaurants take your car's information and have someone bring it to you. Most takeout in-person interactions are a minute or two. With walk up, maybe 2 minutes up front and 1 minute when your food is ready. And the food is given to you in disposable containers which never re-enter the restaurant. So, no, the risk to workers and other patrons is not the same for dine in v take out.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 12, 2020 20:18:46 GMT -5
Except I’m not ordering takeout from anyone whose dining room is open, at least not first wave. More exposure. More likely to have sick staff... If they’re doing takeout business, aren’t they just as likely to interact with sick people? N People are in and out of my place in about five minutes or less. If they get there super early they wait in their car. I'll bring it out if they want. The only interaction they have with me is giving their name, paying and taking the box. Meanwhile when I served tables I had to take your order. I had to bring your order back. I directly touched your plates and cups which you touched with your lips and utensils. I had to lean over you to pre bus the tables. I had to come back and repeatedly ask how you were or refill drinks and complimentary items. You'd be exposed to me and everyone else in there for a half hour or longer. Sure there is a chance I could get you sick passing you your pizza on Saturday but it's a lot less likely than me being your server while surrounded by dozens of other customers and servers while you linger over your meal.
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Post by TheHaitian on May 12, 2020 20:27:38 GMT -5
If they’re doing takeout business, aren’t they just as likely to interact with sick people? N People are in and out of my place in about five minutes or less. If they get there super early they wait in their car. I'll bring it out if they want. The only interaction they have with me is giving their name, paying and taking the box. Meanwhile when I served tables I had to take your order. I had to bring your order back. I directly touched your plates and cups which you touched with your lips and utensils. I had to lean over you to pre bus the tables. I had to come back and repeatedly ask how you were or refill drinks and complimentary items. You'd be exposed to me and everyone else in there for a half hour or longer. Sure there is a chance I could get you sick passing you your pizza on Saturday but it's a lot less likely than me being your server while surrounded by dozens of other customers and servers while you linger over your meal. I was told restaurants that are allowed to open at phase 1 or currently can only take on 25% their max capacity. Can your dad restaurant survived with only 25% capacity? My friend that owns a Haitian restaurant (only doing take out now also) is afraid he won’t...
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 12, 2020 20:33:47 GMT -5
N People are in and out of my place in about five minutes or less. If they get there super early they wait in their car. I'll bring it out if they want. The only interaction they have with me is giving their name, paying and taking the box. Meanwhile when I served tables I had to take your order. I had to bring your order back. I directly touched your plates and cups which you touched with your lips and utensils. I had to lean over you to pre bus the tables. I had to come back and repeatedly ask how you were or refill drinks and complimentary items. You'd be exposed to me and everyone else in there for a half hour or longer. Sure there is a chance I could get you sick passing you your pizza on Saturday but it's a lot less likely than me being your server while surrounded by dozens of other customers and servers while you linger over your meal. I was told restaurants that are allowed to open at phase 1 or currently can only take on 25% their max capacity. Can your dad restaurant survived with only 25% capacity? My friend that owns a Haitian restaurant (only doing take out now also) is afraid he won’t... We've been take out only since the day we opened. Places big enough to have dine in have crazy high rents around here. The majority of our business originally was take out anyhow so it made sense to start there. We're up 15% and have had over 200 first time customers according to our tracking system. I feel guilty but we're doing really well. A lot of other places share your concerns that 25% is not worth opening for. Especially places in small locals or historical locals that would have to do major remodeling to conform to the new rules. But can they survive much longer on take out? They don't know.
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Post by TheHaitian on May 12, 2020 20:48:17 GMT -5
I was told restaurants that are allowed to open at phase 1 or currently can only take on 25% their max capacity. Can your dad restaurant survived with only 25% capacity? My friend that owns a Haitian restaurant (only doing take out now also) is afraid he won’t... We've been take out only since the day we opened. Places big enough to have dine in have crazy high rents around here. The majority of our business originally was take out anyhow so it made sense to start there. We're up 15% and have had over 200 first time customers according to our tracking system. I feel guilty but we're doing really well. A lot of other places share your concerns that 25% is not worth opening for. Especially places in small locals or historical locals that would have to do major remodeling to conform to the new rules. But can they survive much longer on take out? They don't know. The take out route was never the end goal ... but more so a survival mode because: A) they did not expect the shut down phase to take this long, they were thinking 2 weeks when it first started... been what? 8 weeks now? B) they kept a skeleton crew: the owner (my friend), the chef, sous chef and 2 other people part time that man the door/bring orders up/ring them. C) actually as the owner he has worked harder the past 8 weeks then when he usually open because he has worked every day since this started (before he had his business manager to cover his days off); work from opening to close to help - skeleton crew and basically done everything from moping the floor to cleaning the dishes... D) but felt closing completely would have been worse since people would have found another spot; this way even if he is not making any money or much Profit they still know the restaurant exist. E) he is now concern about this phase 1 or 2 of opening ; because he was hoping fully open would give him a break. It is not looking like it and he is now having to make some serious consideration. F) how much of his money he will have to into keeping the restaurant afloat and how long before they are back to 100% capacity?
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 12, 2020 20:57:30 GMT -5
It's been a mixed bag around here. There are no easy choices for small businesses that's for sure.
I've read in the local papers that they're crunching numbers as hard as they can because while they want to.survive nobody wants to be the next hot spot either.
I think masks will kill off what little business there is over time. It's one thing to be in the Old Market when it's 60.
It's another wearing a mask in 90 degree heat 80 % humidity.
I'll wear one cause I have to but you won't find me out and about much once the real summer heat hits.
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Post by movingforward on May 12, 2020 21:23:03 GMT -5
I would really love to go eat in a restaurant but will probably stick with take out for now.
In general, I'm not sure how many more days I can take being at home though. Our mayor extended the stay home order through the end of May, so even though restaurants and salons are starting to open my office is continuing to work from home.
We are a small staff and all have our own office so I think social distancing will work. The only one I'm concerned about is my accountant. His wife doesn't wear a face mask and has no concerns over catching the virus. I almost want to tell him to keep working from home once we go back...
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 8:03:22 GMT -5
Our governor is expected to announce he is extending our stay at home order today. I think most people are DONE and there will be some major unrest in my state pretty soon.
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Post by nidena on May 13, 2020 8:33:41 GMT -5
With the knowledge that many towns and cities have hundreds, if not thousands, of restaurants (mind you, I'm not talking Podunk Iowa, population 1003) and, from what I've seen, many of those places have been very understaffed pre-Corona, wouldn't it be better to have fewer restaurants? I'm not saying that I want any small business to fail or that I want any owner to lose their livelihood but if Susie owns a restaurant and Akilah owns the same kind of restaurant and neither can keep a full staff... Or, better yet, lemme use clothing retail since there's more duplicates. There are nine Kohl's in the Indy area. There are just as many Targets, maybe one or two more. They sell almost the same stuff. And I KNOW they're not fully staffed. People will still drive to their nearest location, it'll just be a little further to go. I mean, when stores are understaffed, they make less. Why not get closer to being fully staffed and make more? I guess I just see this whole situation as a corporate version of Base Realignment and Closure.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 13, 2020 8:36:44 GMT -5
I'll be honest, I'm not keeping track of the state orders. I'm just keeping on. I go in to work, I grocery shop on weekends and that's about it though. I'm also fighting depression and a sore back.
We do takeout about 1x a week. Where depends on who wants what. The local place that's gluten free seemed to have opened up their bar the last time I was in there, a couple of weeks ago. From them, I order online, pay online, tell them the pickup time I want and when I'm done, I go in, get the food and leave. They don't seem to be bringing food outside. The Noodles and Co. is similar - I order and pay online, give them a pickup time and go inside to pick up from the shelf. We tried a different place place last weekend. I'd expected it to be more like the previous two but it wasn't. It was call in for an order; go pick it up; call when there; give them CC (they brought the little black thingie with the bill in it outside along with the food. It was much more contact than I was expecting. And they confirmed that they are not set up to do online orders and it didn't feel like they were going to do so. The food was good but it felt rather like a clusterf@#$. I don't know that we'll order from them again. We'll eat there, once we feel safe going out to eat again. But ordering just seems like more trouble than it's worth. They're a local chain and have 3-4 restaurants so I expect at least one of them will survive.
I haven't ordered takeout from my new to me local favorite pizza place because I'm drawing on Drama's experience in that they will survive just fine. They're mostly a takeout place anyway. They've got a 3-4 tables and chairs for waiting/eating but I've never seen anyone actually eating there. The office got takeout from them recently so I know they're still around.
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 13, 2020 9:03:16 GMT -5
I'm okay with take out. Most of the places around here they bring it out to you. They don't want the public in their business. Or they let one in at a time.
The one bakery you text when you get there. They place your order on a table outside and you grab it after they go back inside.
I heard the farmers market was opening on schedule this month. I don't know how that's going to happen.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 9:12:21 GMT -5
Meanwhile in Georgia, public pools can open now.
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Post by gs11rmb on May 13, 2020 9:18:20 GMT -5
Meanwhile in Georgia, public pools can open now. Where did you read that pools can open?
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Post by giramomma on May 13, 2020 9:40:09 GMT -5
Our governor is expected to announce he is extending our stay at home order today. I think most people are DONE and there will be some major unrest in my state pretty soon. Most people are done here, too. There's less support for the SAH orders, but I don't see major unrest, either. Our supreme court hasn't acted yet, weighing in on whether the SIP order through the end of May is legal or not. We're also super close to legit clearing all the hurdles for gate 1. And things here have been slowly opening up, regardless of the SIP orders. I still haven't heard what camps, including scouts, are going to do yet, to plan for social distancing. DD1 is supposed to go at the end of June. Unless I hear something soon, her going is likely going to be a hard no. Feeding 200 kids in a dining hall at the same time while they are sitting close enough that they can touch elbows/knees/other body parts isn't my idea of social distancing safely, even for Phase 2.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 9:41:00 GMT -5
Meanwhile in Georgia, public pools can open now. Where did you read that pools can open? AJC, 11alive.com, cobbanddouglaspublichealth.com
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Post by billisonboard on May 13, 2020 9:47:26 GMT -5
Our governor is expected to announce he is extending our stay at home order today. I think most people are DONE and there will be some major unrest in my state pretty soon. Most people are done here, too. There's less support for the SAH orders, but I don't see major unrest, either. Our supreme court hasn't acted yet, weighing in on whether the SIP order through the end of May is legal or not. We're also super close to legit clearing all the hurdles for gate 1. And things here have been slowly opening up, regardless of the SIP orders. I still haven't heard what camps, including scouts, are going to do yet, to plan for social distancing. DD1 is supposed to go at the end of June. Unless I hear something soon, her going is likely going to be a hard no. Feeding 200 kids in a dining hall at the same time while they are sitting close enough that they can touch elbows/knees/other body parts isn't my idea of social distancing safely, even for Phase 2.
In Washington State's Phase 2, group size is limited to 50.
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Post by giramomma on May 13, 2020 10:16:08 GMT -5
Most people are done here, too. There's less support for the SAH orders, but I don't see major unrest, either. Our supreme court hasn't acted yet, weighing in on whether the SIP order through the end of May is legal or not. We're also super close to legit clearing all the hurdles for gate 1. And things here have been slowly opening up, regardless of the SIP orders. I still haven't heard what camps, including scouts, are going to do yet, to plan for social distancing. DD1 is supposed to go at the end of June. Unless I hear something soon, her going is likely going to be a hard no. Feeding 200 kids in a dining hall at the same time while they are sitting close enough that they can touch elbows/knees/other body parts isn't my idea of social distancing safely, even for Phase 2.
In Washington State's Phase 2, group size is limited to 50. I know. We still have not been told how they are going to define group size for camps and daycares and what not...
Actually, if they kids were allowed to cook at their campsite, I'd be less concerned, even with 200 kids at camp.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 13, 2020 10:19:51 GMT -5
Our governor is expected to announce he is extending our stay at home order today. I think most people are DONE and there will be some major unrest in my state pretty soon. I was reading an article about how we should have done a lock down like New Zealand did. And I agree in theory but that should have been done on day 1. No way are you going to get people to cooperate with a 1-2 month complete lock down now. This was bungled from the top down and we aren't going to get the genie back in the bottle any time soon. If they had used this time to actually plan on a national level maybe you could get cooperation but people have seen how this is handled, they aren't going to watch their lives crash and burn anymore just so they can waste even more time.
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Post by jerseygirl on May 13, 2020 10:20:51 GMT -5
Interesting article about social distancing Seems I don’t need to hold my breath when a runner or biker pass me and grocery stores with not many people not problematic for most customers BUT closed spaces even very large are a problem. Schools churches restaurants jobs? California State University system just announce online classes for fall For little kids to teens very few have severe illness requiring hospitalization. Are they carriers? But in northeast NY and NJ a Kawasaki type severe illness linked to Covid is causing hospitalization and 3-5 deaths in young children. Frightening www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
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Post by jerseygirl on May 13, 2020 10:26:11 GMT -5
Our governor is expected to announce he is extending our stay at home order today. I think most people are DONE and there will be some major unrest in my state pretty soon. I was reading an article about how we should have done a lock down like New Zealand did. And I agree in theory but that should have been done on day 1. No way are you going to get people to cooperate with a 1-2 month complete lock down now. This was bungled from the top down and we aren't going to get the genie back in the bottle any time soon. If they had used this time to actually plan on a national level maybe you could get cooperation but people have seen how this is handled, they aren't going to watch their lives crash and burn anymore just so they can waste even more time. Agree that total or even type of lockdown we have tried immediately for entire country would probably have saved lives. But would people have accepted this in late February? Even early March? When there were few deaths? And none in majority of states and in states with illness many areas with none (like upstate NY not NYC)?? Maybe just announcing quarantine for over 60? Nothing locked for younger? Bungled or just that compared to NZ the US is a far larger and not as homogeneous as NZ in types of cities, population
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Post by thyme4change on May 13, 2020 10:37:26 GMT -5
Interesting article about social distancing Seems I don’t need to hold my breath when a runner or biker pass me and grocery stores with not many people not problematic for most customers BUT closed spaces even very large are a problem. Schools churches restaurants jobs? California State University system just announce online classes for fall For little kids to teens very few have severe illness requiring hospitalization. Are they carriers? But in northeast NY and NJ a Kawasaki type severe illness linked to Covid is causing hospitalization and 3-5 deaths in young children. Frightening www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-themNew info on kids. Still not a lot of infections, but when they get them, it appears to be bad. It looks different than it does in adults. Que the people saying that all these kids having medical issues just happen to coincidentally have Covid and there is no connection.
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Post by teen persuasion on May 13, 2020 10:53:55 GMT -5
Interesting article about social distancing Seems I don’t need to hold my breath when a runner or biker pass me and grocery stores with not many people not problematic for most customers BUT closed spaces even very large are a problem. Schools churches restaurants jobs?[img src="https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/idunno.gif" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png" class="smile" alt=" "] California State University system just announce online classes for fall For little kids to teens very few have severe illness requiring hospitalization. Are they carriers? But in northeast NY and NJ a Kawasaki type severe illness linked to Covid is causing hospitalization and 3-5 deaths in young children. Frightening www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-themNew info on kids. Still not a lot of infections, but when they get them, it appears to be bad. It looks different than it does in adults. Que the people saying that all these kids having medical issues just happen to coincidentally have Covid and there is no connection. Watching Cuomo talking about this right now. The child cases of this new manifestation test 60% positive Covid-19, 40% positive antibody, 14% positive both. That's not coincidence.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 12:24:22 GMT -5
Our local public health officer said they won't be doing anything other than very surface contact tracing here because it's impractical and invades people's privacy... I looked to see if I could WAH contact trace in another area and all the jobs I could find required Bachelor's degrees plus a bunch of other things I didn't qualify for. But, thanks for the info. I will look again and check out the class. DS moved here from Chico. Chico is one of those towns where the population grows by 1/4th when CSUC is in session. Housing there has been insane since the Paradise fire up the road. With the CalState announcement yesterday, the town's economy will plummet, as well as the value of rentals. It makes me wonder about all those "college only" apartment complexes and other student housing. Not to mention all the businesses around the college that make 90% or more of their income during the school year.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 12:32:55 GMT -5
One of my best friends and his wife fall in that group. My friend works in IT which is one field where you figure a lot of people can work remotely which he can but the issue is when the stores and warehouses are closed he gets furloughed too because his company is in the retail business. His wife is a designer but with retail mostly closed and just doing online sales people like her are furloughed too. I know someone who works on the corporate side for Disney and he's still got a job but their Q1 numbers took a huge hit while some of their parks only went into lock down the last few weeks of Q1. They're opening some parks but reduced capacity is going to result in less revenue and less need for some of their full time corporate employees even. To your point there was an article the other day saying how much used car prices have been dropped and Toyota came out saying they expect an 80% drop in revenue. Situations like that are going to shrink the need for workforce at a lot of companies. We can adapt in the long run whether it's new industries, jobs or how we work but in the short term this is going to hurt a lot of workers even more than it is now. Maybe I am actually a socialist at heart or something, but what I don't understand is if we are going to be printing a shit-ton of money anyway, then why isn't a majority of that cash going to the citizenry to help them in this time of need? I don't think we the taxpayers should ever bail out private business. If the business fails, then another one will eventually be built in its place. Why aren't we giving the populace money to pay their rent, mortgage, utilities, and buying food instead? This would greatly stem the future chances of social unrest. If this country moved to emergency Medicare for everyone and some sort of UBI, even just for the next 1 or 2 years, it seems like we could come out the other side in a much better situation as a society. I'm very concerned about future outbreaks and the populace telling the government to get stuffed when future income-threatening lockdowns are attempted for no reason other than people are freaking out about money.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2020 12:49:50 GMT -5
With the knowledge that many towns and cities have hundreds, if not thousands, of restaurants (mind you, I'm not talking Podunk Iowa, population 1003) and, from what I've seen, many of those places have been very understaffed pre-Corona, wouldn't it be better to have fewer restaurants? I'm not saying that I want any small business to fail or that I want any owner to lose their livelihood but if Susie owns a restaurant and Akilah owns the same kind of restaurant and neither can keep a full staff... Or, better yet, lemme use clothing retail since there's more duplicates. There are nine Kohl's in the Indy area. There are just as many Targets, maybe one or two more. They sell almost the same stuff. And I KNOW they're not fully staffed. People will still drive to their nearest location, it'll just be a little further to go. I mean, when stores are understaffed, they make less. Why not get closer to being fully staffed and make more? I guess I just see this whole situation as a corporate version of Base Realignment and Closure. I've often wondered the same thing as you when visiting my mom in a large Central CA city. There are 2 Starbucks in one area where you can stand outside of one and see the other. Restaurants in my area are doing fairly well. But, even though we have a population of about 4K, there are many businesses for highway visitors and rents here are insanely expensive due to a lack of buildings. The day the stay at home came out, all the independent restaurants here started offering takeout/delivery. Now they each have a couple of daily specials to choose from and post them on FB. Ironically, the local truck stop appears to have some of the best food in the area. The local pizza place does such good business right now you have to call early in the day if you want a dinnertime delivery. I try to support their business and see others doing the same. But, I also wonder if we are eating out more because we aren't traveling or going anywhere else to spend money.
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Post by movingforward on May 13, 2020 13:21:42 GMT -5
Our governor is expected to announce he is extending our stay at home order today. I think most people are DONE and there will be some major unrest in my state pretty soon. I'm pretty sure that despite what any elected official says the people are pretty much going to decide when we are open. What I mean by that is that people have started to gather, their letting kids play with one another again, and some are going into the office despite our order to stay home, etc. Most are done for a while.
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Post by oped on May 13, 2020 13:27:53 GMT -5
One of our favorite places started take out from the beginning. They have their regular menu plus daily breaks fast lunch and dinner family boxes... (serve 5 or 2) Their once a week special taco boxes, wings Boxes and bbq boxes always sell out early.
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Post by lurkyloo on May 13, 2020 13:50:13 GMT -5
Interesting article about social distancing Seems I don’t need to hold my breath when a runner or biker pass me and grocery stores with not many people not problematic for most customers BUT closed spaces even very large are a problem. Schools churches restaurants jobs?[img src="https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/idunno.gif" alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png" class="smile"] California State University system just announce online classes for fall For little kids to teens very few have severe illness requiring hospitalization. Are they carriers? But in northeast NY and NJ a Kawasaki type severe illness linked to Covid is causing hospitalization and 3-5 deaths in young children. Frightening www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-themNew info on kids. Still not a lot of infections, but when they get them, it appears to be bad. It looks different than it does in adults. Que the people saying that all these kids having medical issues just happen to coincidentally have Covid and there is no connection. I think the child infection rate is pretty high/comparable to adult rates, just statistically the symptoms tend not to be severe in children. My heart goes out to those statistical outliers though
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Post by lurkyloo on May 13, 2020 13:51:44 GMT -5
Our governor is expected to announce he is extending our stay at home order today. I think most people are DONE and there will be some major unrest in my state pretty soon. I'm pretty sure that despite what any elected official says the people are pretty much going to decide when we are open. What I mean by that is that people have started to gather, their letting kids play with one another again, and some are going into the office despite our order to stay home, etc. Most are done for a while. Sometimes it goes the other way and people don’t feel safe even if businesses are open. I think it has a lot to do both with political attitudes and local disease prevalence.
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formerroomate99
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Post by formerroomate99 on May 13, 2020 13:56:12 GMT -5
Maybe I am actually a socialist at heart or something, but what I don't understand is if we are going to be printing a shit-ton of money anyway, then why isn't a majority of that cash going to the citizenry to help them in this time of need? I don't think we the taxpayers should ever bail out private business. If the business fails, then another one will eventually be built in its place. Why aren't we giving the populace money to pay their rent, mortgage, utilities, and buying food instead? This would greatly stem the future chances of social unrest. If this country moved to emergency Medicare for everyone and some sort of UBI, even just for the next 1 or 2 years, it seems like we could come out the other side in a much better situation as a society. I'm very concerned about future outbreaks and the populace telling the government to get stuffed when future income-threatening lockdowns are attempted for no reason other than people are freaking out about money. The problem with that thinking is the business owners are people who have fears and emotions like everyone else. When the businesses go, then they take their landlords and suppliers with them. And when you have everybody on the dole Just getting by, nobody’s gonna have the money to start a new business, and new businesses are unlikely to succeed because nobody has any money. So the buildings the businesses used to take will sit empty for quite some time, go into foreclosure, routine maintenance won’t be done, and perfectly good buildings will be destroyed. Like I said before, in my area, businesses who weren’t even affected by the lockdown we’re doing hiring freezes, knowing full well they would be leaving money on the table, because the people in charge were afraid, Or because their stock price had taken a hit, and they were dependent on that for infrastructure investment.
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