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Please be mindful that these are the cases that we know about and are as a result of a handful (and I mean a handful) of cases that get tested here in SC and nationally. To the degree that this creates a false sense of security, i.e. that this place or that place has only 1 or 2 cases, then just be mindful that as of now only a few suspected cases (and only after a stringent protocol is followed) are being tested. Hopefully the availability of tests and a more streamlined process will happen soon but I would bet money there are many more of these "community spread" cases out there and that they are just not being picked up. No need to panic but a level of caution is advisable at this point in our daily interactions.
Being that Columbia isn't a big tourist town or as big of a manufacturing hub like Charleston/Upstate. How do ya'll think the city/metro will come out of this economically as compared to Myrtle Beach, Charleston, and Greenville/Spartanburg?
Most jobs in Columbia are white collar, so insurance, financial, government, education and health care employees should mostly get paid. Tourist dependent areas will suffer the most.
According to a Brookings Institute study, Columbia would be the least impacted economically of the state's metros as it is the least reliant on sectors that are feeling the immediate impacts of our national pandemic response. It should be noted that this study isn't taking potential secondary or tertiary economic impacts into consideration: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-a...t-hardest/amp/
With the tax losses (sales, hospitality etc) to pay police, etc, the county may really want to think about consolidating after this crisis.
State law makes it practically impossible for city-county consolidation to happen. That's why the most that has ever been seriously considered is consolidating certain services, like law enforcement.
I thought stores were supposed to be limiting the number of people entering the stre. I just got back from IGA in Gaston and they are not doing this. It was actually pretty busy. No one way aisles eiter
I thought stores were supposed to be limiting the number of people entering the stre. I just got back from IGA in Gaston and they are not doing this. It was actually pretty busy. No one way aisles eiter
The Vista Publix was when I went there last week, but I had to get some things from the Five Points Food Lion today and they were a disaster waiting to happen.
I thought stores were supposed to be limiting the number of people entering the stre. I just got back from IGA in Gaston and they are not doing this. It was actually pretty busy. No one way aisles eiter
The Food Lion on Decker limits the people to 74. I only go once a week, 7AM on Saturdays, right when it opens, and wear gloves and a mask and I'm in and out in under 15 minutes, easy peasy lemon squeezy!
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