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The author of the editorial is clearly denying the science and wants to fill her own pockets by irresponsibly opening. What is wrong with a pause? The Governor clearly knows how to mitigate a global pandemic. Businesses can afford to pause for as long as it takes, sorry they won't be able to charter a yacht this year. Greedy business owners.
Ok, so what is wrong with employee's having a "pause"? Sorry, they won't be able to buy groceries, pay utilities, pay rent/mortgage, loans, lotto tickets, drugs, cig's, booze, another vehicle. Mooching employee's.
The author of the editorial is clearly denying the science and wants to fill her own pockets by irresponsibly opening. What is wrong with a pause? The Governor clearly knows how to mitigate a global pandemic. Businesses can afford to pause for as long as it takes, sorry they won't be able to charter a yacht this year. Greedy business owners.
No one with any brains and common sense is going to be going out to eat in COVID hot-spots anyways even if they did stay open. A drive-thru and/or curbside pickup is easy enough. Shut it down.
BS, you obviously never ran a business, maybe a I’ve corporate, but this pandemic is hurting smaller businesses big time, unless you have money coming in you can’t pay you bills, inventory, taxes or most importantly your employees. Your post is totally wrong and uninformed.
Seriously, these people just think we can just continue printing money forever without severe consequences for the future.
There was a thread last week calling out people that weren't in favor of shutting things down. I think it got deleted. I do remember a poster stating that dining in was the most dangerous thing one can do. According to this article, only 4% of Covid cases are related to dining in. This article really explains how much of an impact these shut downs are to people.
There are a lot of things more dangerous than dining in. A short list is:
- Singing in a choir.
- Attending an indoor sporting event where people are cheering and shouting.
- Going to a bar.
- Indoor church services.
Some events need to be avoided. If you have to go to church, do it outdoors. Jesus does not need padded pews. Avoid indoor situations where people are flapping their vocal cords without masks.
If it were not for the idiots who refuse to practice contagion control, the number of infections would be a small fraction and our lives would be essentially normal. Pay a little now or pay a lot later.
Did you even read the article ? You seemed to have focused on the business owner, not sure why, and ignored the result of the "pause".
43 people are now laid off and on unemployment, at just one restaurant. A total of 700 people will be laid off from all their places. And this is just at one chain. Start adding up all the others.
And then it keeps going from there. Now suppliers are going to be effected. Trucking companies effected. The chain that these "pauses" effects just keeps going.
It's a shame that you aren't looking at the bigger picture, the ones these shut downs hurts the most are the "worker bee's" .
I was under the impression that the poster's comment was completely sarcastic...
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