Coronavirus in Massachusetts (ending, fun, sports)

[Bridge781]

What date do you all think the shutdown will be extended to ?

[robr2]

Originally Posted by justyouraveragetenant

Starbucks is way over rated and tastes like mud. Ya i forgot starbucks. why is starbucks closed but not dunkin donuts?

The starbucks in my town and the next town over is closed. you can walk into a liqour store. these closures are arbitrary. I know why liqour stores are open because of tax revenue and people would revolt in times like these if they could not get some booze in them. Even massechusetts people would get very angry if they could not get thier booze.

Starbucks made a corporate decision to only have drive thru service at the stores that offered it and delivery where it was feasible. If a store wasn't able to do either, it closed. Starbucks stores are all corporate owned. Dunkins are franchises and each franchisee made their own decision as how to operate.

[justyouraveragetenant]

Originally Posted by robr2

Starbucks made a corporate decision to only have drive thru service at the stores that offered it and delivery where it was feasible. If a store wasn't able to do either, it closed. Starbucks stores are all corporate owned. Dunkins are franchises and each franchisee made their own decision as how to operate.

Ya that's right . every dunkin i see though is open around multiple towns. I think Starbucks made a bad decision people do not want to wait in line in a drive through where if you could go into the store you could get your coffee faster. I did not know they did delivery.

[RBThescot]

Originally Posted by Bridge781

What date do you all think the shutdown will be extended to ?

WHO warns survivors have no immunity:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/g...ere-s-n1192831

Vaccine may be impossible to produce:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...s-covid-2020-4

[yesmaybe]

Originally Posted by RBThescot

WHO warns survivors have no immunity:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/g...ere-s-n1192831

That's not what they said really, they basically said the data is inconclusive at this point.

[Bridge781]

Originally Posted by RBThescot

WHO warns survivors have no immunity:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/g...ere-s-n1192831

Vaccine may be impossible to produce:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...s-covid-2020-4

I don’t think we can be shutdown for more months. Maybe more weeks.

[western mass and love it]

May 4th needs to be the date. Keeping it going for longer would be ridiculous.

[Robert5]

Originally Posted by RBThescot

WHO warns survivors have no immunity:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/g...ere-s-n1192831

Vaccine may be impossible to produce:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...s-covid-2020-4

Why the fear mongering? What do you get from that? Business Insider is a click bait site in Germany, I didn’t even bother opening. Even the NBC headline clearly contradicts your claim of no immunity. The NBC headline or the WHO, can not tell which, is clearly wrong and sensational. It is just repeating a pedantic talking point that we will not know ‘for certain’ that Humans have long term immunity until a year or two has passed. There is actually a lot of evidence that humans retain long term immunity to similar viruses, and little evidence that humans don’t.

[massnative71]

I believe the "safe to reopen" date for MA has now been pushed into June, of course all that is subject to change. And what Baker decides to do there, is of course something else.

[mdovell]

Originally Posted by western mass and love it

May 4th needs to be the date. Keeping it going for longer would be ridiculous.

CT technically has it longer.

Turrets a difference between things being open and open normally. We aren't going to see sports stadiums with 50k people in them. But more likely is a Cafe allows three to four people inside.