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As it's relevant to the thread though not current posts, I was wondering about what we've heard about restaurants selling household goods.
I randomly checked Applebees (I've never actually been to one) as I seem to remember they were one of those selling non-food and non-meal items, but I didn't see anything about it on their website.
Is there a place where there is more information about this? I would like to support them (restaurants, not Applebees specifically) if they have things I might get elsewhere.
Remember when this started -- it was "flatten the curve to stay home and prevent hospital collapse"
Now we all agree it seems to have become "stay home until cases is rapidly going down" while we expand test more and more
We don't dispute hospitals have way excess capacity so why should we accept this bait and switch? Strict lockdowns are really only rational in this context --- a hospital system collapsing --
Propose social distance protocols, provide information and data, support hospitals, facilitate testing
instead it's "idle the vast majority of population with a .02% risk of any harm while they experience the real harm of unemployment
So yes, it is authoritarian and maternalistic
Also, while they were busy wringing their hands over what who is essential and non-essential, they forgot to protect people who were high risk. The nursing home situation is inexcusable.
i think this pandemic really demonstrates authoritarian and maternalistic democratic tendencies to perform overreach based on pessimistic scenarios, excessive butt covering, and distrust of the citizenry
I think we've all seen action picking up and a lot of people are out and about and this pushing the goal posts 'just over the next hill' mentality for 'more testing' or 'lowering the curve' is very troubling.
The plan was never to sit out of life until covid was over but incrementality polls are taking us there.
Asheville for example has a total of 100 cases over the past 2 months considering the recovered its crazy to have so much of the functionally able just sit at home
And none of this has kept covid from the risk places like nursing homes where its reaching a grim toll
TLDR stay at home orders and idled hospitals don't make sense. Testing is a bunk metric -- the more you test the more you'll find -- extending lockdown indefinetly
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that the only reason these extreme measures were tolerated was the now-debunked modeling that predicted our healthcare system would be overwhelmed and people would die unnecessarily deaths from the lack of basic healthcare. It's funny how quick they pivoted when it became clear that wasn't going to happen.
Here’s hoping none of you lose a friend or loved one to his disease. I’d hate for them to have some of their last thoughts be the realization that their demise was somehow...necessary.
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